Rustam Rasulovich Inoyatov (Russian: Рустам Расулович Иноятов; born 22 June 1944) is a former Uzbek government official, as well as a colonel general.

[2] Rustam Rasulovich Inoyatov was born in the city of Sherabad, Surxondaryo Region.

From 1965 to 1967 he was a concrete worker in the Tashkent Building Trust, at the same time he studied at the university.

Rustam Inoyatov is considered one of the most influential people in Uzbekistan – the grise eminence[2][4] of Uzbek politics.

In 1995 the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, gave him the position of chief of the SNB as a counter weight to his rival's power, Zokir Almatov, the Minister of Internal Affairs.