Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core having a plurality of rotor salient poles disposed on an outer periphery of the rotor core in a circumferential direction of the rotor core, rotor coils wound on the rotor salient poles, and a retainer member provided to close a slot formed between the rotor salient poles. The retainer member includes a leg portion extending radially in the slot between rotor coils wound on two rotor salient poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction and fixed to the rotor core, and beam portions extending in the opposite circumferential directions each other from a radially outer end portion of the leg portion and that close an outer periphery of the slot. The leg portion of the retainer member is provided with protrusion portions protruded in circumferential directions to engage with the coil winding that forms the rotor coils.