Yvette Rugel (1890s – September 20, 1975) was an American singer and vaudeville performer, sometimes billed as the "Miniature Prima Donna".

[4] Rugel appeared in three Broadway productions: The Passing Show of 1917,[5] George White's Scandals (1919),[4] and Earl Carroll's Vanities (1926–1927).

"[15] A later critic, Burke Henry, described her voice as a "lyrical spinto", after her 1930 appearances in Rome, Paris, London, and Venice, where she sang arias for Mussolini.

[1] In 1938, New York columnist Dale Harrison called hers "one of the finest theatre voices in town.

[17] Yvette Rugel married a fellow vaudeville performer,[18] Scottish-born comedian Johnny Dooley,[19] in 1917; they had two children, John and Mary, before they divorced in 1922.