| Roj Shaweis | |
| Office: | 1st Prime Minister of Kurdistan Region |
| President: | Massoud Barzani |
| Term Start: | 26 September 1996 |
| Term End: | 20 December 1999 |
| Predecessor: | Position established |
| Successor: | Nechervan Idris Barzani |
| Office1: | Speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly |
| Term Start1: | October 1999 |
| Term End1: | January 2003 |
| Predecessor1: | Jawhar Namiq |
| Successor1: | Kamal Fuad |
| Office2: | Interim Vice President of Iraq |
| Alongside2: | Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
| Term Start2: | 1 June 2004 |
| Term End2: | 7 April 2005 |
| President2: | Ghazi al-Yawer (interim) |
| Predecessor2: | Taha Yassin Ramadan |
| Successor2: | Ghazi al-Yawer and Adil Abdul-Mahdi (Vice Presidents) |
| Office3: | Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq |
| Term Start3: | 7 April 2005 |
| Term End3: | 20 May 2006 |
| Primeminister3: | Ibrahim al-Jaafari Nouri al-Maliki |
| Predecessor3: | Barham Salih |
| Successor3: | Barham Salih |
| Term Start4: | 20 August 2009 |
| Term End4: | 8 September 2014 |
| Primeminister4: | Nouri al-Maliki |
| Alongside4: | Rafi al-Issawi,[1] Saleh al-Mutlaq[2] and Hussain al-Shahristani[3] |
| Predecessor4: | Barham Salih |
| Successor4: | Hoshyar Zebari |
| Term Start5: | 18 October 2014 |
| Term End5: | 10 August 2015 |
| Primeminister5: | Haider al-Abadi |
| Predecessor5: | Hoshyar Zebari |
| Alongside5: | Saleh al-Mutlaq and Baha Araji[4] |
| Birth Place: | Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Kingdom of Iraq |
| Death Place: | Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq |
| Party: | Kurdistan Democratic Party |
| Spouse: | Elke Shaways |
| Children: | 3 |
| Residence: | Erbil |
| Native Name Lang: | ku |
Roj Nouri Shaweis (Kurdish: ڕۆژ نووری شاوەیس, Arabic: روز نوري شاويس) 15 – 1947 February 2021[5]) was a Kurdish politician who served as the first Prime Minister of the KDP-controlled part of Kurdistan. After the invasion of Iraq that overthrew the Saddam Hussein regime, he served as one of Iraq's two vice presidents in the interim government established in 2004. Subsequently, he was a Deputy Prime Minister in the government headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari and later held the same post under Nouri al-Maliki. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister under Haider Al-Abadi from 8 September 2014 to 9 August 2015.Previously, he served as speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly in the Kurdish autonomous region and was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
His father, Nuri Siddik Shaways, was one of the first Kurdish cabinet ministers in Iraq after the Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970. His mother Nahida Sheikhsalam served as the first woman Member of Parliament.
He was the eldest of eight brothers.
Dr. Shaways earned a doctorate in engineering in Germany and returned to Iraq in 1975 to join the Kurdish resistance to Saddam Hussein, where he helped lead the Peshmerga forces in many key battles alongside Masoud Barzani.