Rubén Alonso Rosales (11 January 1925 – 13 May 2000) was a Salvadoran politician who was a member of the six-man junta government that took control of El Salvador as a result of the peaceful coup in 1960.

[1] Born in the tiny village of Paraiso De Osorio, La Paz department, El Salvador, to Vicente and Maria Soriano Rosales as the third child of seven.

On 14 December 1948, being the commander on duty at the strategic location across the Presidential house for that day, he was enlisted to participate in a rebellion to overthrow President Castaneda Castro.

Sent into exile, Rubén Alonso Rosales, ended in Mexico, where he had befriended many military officers from the Mexican Army a decade earlier, who assisted him for a few months.

Rubén Alonso Rosales settled in Los Angeles area, he became one of Jehovah's Witnesses in August 1969, and he worked for a furniture moving company until 1985, when he retired.