Ramamurti Shankar (born April 28, 1947) is the Josiah Willard Gibbs professor of Physics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1974).

In 2009, Shankar was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society for "innovative applications of field theoretic techniques to quantum condensed matter systems".

[2] After three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, he joined the Yale physics department, which he chaired between 2001-2007.

He is the second Indian after S. Chandrasekhar to be a member of Harvard Society of Fellows.