Roj Nouri Shaweis (Kurdish: ڕۆژ نووری شاوەیس, Arabic: روز نوري شاويس) 15 – 1947 February 2021[5]) was a Kurdish politician who served as the first Prime Minister of the KDP-controlled part of Kurdistan.

Subsequently, he was a Deputy Prime Minister in the government headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari and later held the same post under Nouri al-Maliki.

He also served as Deputy Prime Minister under Haider Al-Abadi from 8 September 2014 to 9 August 2015.

His father, Nouri Sadiq Shaweis, was one of the first Kurdish cabinet ministers in Iraq after the Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970.

Shaweis earned a doctorate in engineering in Germany and returned to Iraq in 1975 to join the Kurdish resistance to Saddam Hussein, where he helped lead the Peshmerga forces in many key battles alongside Masoud Barzani.