Rene Cruz was a Filipino sports administrator and police official.
He served as the president of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) from 1993 to 1996.
Under his term as POC President, the Philippines won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
[3] He also served as the head of the Philippine Badminton Association.
[2] Cruz died at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Alabang, Muntinlupa due to cardiac arrest on September 29, 2015.