Irving Hetherington Carruthers (27 October 1884 – 5 July 1974)[1] was a Western Samoan businessman and politician.

His father was a Scottish solicitor who had immigrated to Samoa from Melbourne in Australia,[2] and worked for Robert Louis Stevenson.

[3] He attended the Marist Brothers school in Apia, after which he went into business,[4] leasing a cocoa plantation in Malaedono.

[5] Carruthers married Anne Jennings from Swains Island and had five children.

[3] Carruthers contested the 1932 elections to the Legislative Council with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters' Association.