Václav Votruba (born 19.12.1909) is a Czechoslovak theoretical physicist and a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1977). He graduated from Prague University, where he has worked ever since (professor from 1956). In 1956—59 he was deputy director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna), and in 1959—67 he headed the department of theoretical physics of the Technical University in Prague.
His research concerned nuclear physics, quantum field theory and the physics of elementary particles.