Rui Augusto Gomes (born 21 September 1958) is an East Timorese politician, administrator and academic. He is the incumbent Minister of Finance, serving since November 2020 under the VIII Constitutional Government of East Timor led by Taur Matan Ruak. Previously, he served in the same office in the earlier VII Constitutional Government, as economic adviser and Chief of Staff to the President of East Timor, and as a university lecturer.