Rui Manuel Monteiro Silva ComIH (born 3 August 1977) is a Portuguese track and field athlete and coach who represents S.L.

[1] As a distance runner, he specializes at the 1500 and 3000 m events, although he has at times run the 800 metres as well.

Silva is the current national champion at 1500 m. Silva was the Olympic bronze medalist at Athens in 2004, where he went from last place to third place in less than 400 meters, his last lap being in 51.3 seconds.

In addition to his Olympic medal, he won the 1500 m bronze at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics.

He ran in the 5000 m and 10,000 metres at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, being eliminated in the heats in shorter distance, but coming eleventh over the 10,000 m. He competed at the Lisbon Half Marathon in March 2012 and was the first Portuguese home in fourth place with a personal best of 1:02:40 hours.