Ruth Patricia White[citation needed] (April 24, 1914 – December 3, 1969) was an American actress who worked in theatre, film, and television.

[5] Among her film appearances are her role as Mother Marcella in Fred Zinnemann's The Nun's Story (1959) and as the cantankerous, aged Mrs. Dubose, who yells at the precocious children Jem, Scout, and Dill from her front porch in Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).

In 1962, White won an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her work in the play Happy Days.

She was predeceased by another sister, Mary Cecile White, who served as president of the Perth Amboy Teachers Union Local 857.

[8] She is interred with her brothers Charles and Richard in the family plot at Saint Mary's Cemetery, Perth Amboy, New Jersey.