Rufus

Given name

Saint Rufus (disambiguation)

J. Rufus Fears, American historian, scholar, teacher and author

Rufus (actor) (born 1942), French actor

Rufus (biblical figure), a first-century Christian mentioned in Mark 15:21

Rufus (crossword compiler) (born 1932), pseudonym of Roger Squires

Rufus Ada George (born 1940), Nigerian politician

Rufus Alexander (born 1983), American football player

Rufus Travis Amis (1912-2007), American entrepreneur

Rufus Anderson (1796–1880), American minister

Rufus A. Ayers (1849-1926), American lawyer, businessman, and politician

Rufus Babcock (1798-1875), American clergyman and academic

Rufus William Bailey (1793-1863), American academic

Rufus Barringer (1821-1895), American lawyer, politician, and military general

Rufus Beck (born 1957), German theater, film, and voice actor

Rufus Bess (born 1956), American football player

Rufus Blodgett (1834-1910), American politician and railroad superintendent

Rufus Bousquet, Saint Lucian politician

Rufus Bowen (1947-1978), American professor of mathematics

Rufus S. Bratton (1892-1958), American intelligence officer

Rufus Brevett (born 1969), English football player

Rufus Brome (born 1935) Bishop of Barbados

Rufus Brown (born 1980), American football player

Rufus Bullock (1834-1907), American politician

Rufus Columbus Burleson (1823-1901), American academic

Rufus T. Bush (1840-1890), American businessman, oil refining industrialist, and yachtsman

Rufus Cappadocia, Canadian-American cellist

Rufus Carter (1866–1932), Canadian farmer and political figure

Rufus Choate (1799-1859), American lawyer and orator

Rufus Early Clement (1900-1967), American academic

Rufus W. Cobb (1829-1913), American politician

Rufus Cole (1872-1966), American medical doctor

Rufus Crawford (born 1955), Canadian Football League player

Rufus Curry (1859-1934), Canadian manufacturer and politician

Rufus Dawes (1838-1899), American military officer

Rufus C. Dawes (1867-1940), American businessman

Rufus Dayglo, English comics artist

Rufus Deal (1917-2005), American football player

Rufus A. Doughton (1857–1946), American politician

Rufus Easton (1774-1834), American lawyer and politician

Rufus L. Edmisten (born 1941), American politician and lawyer

Rufus of Ephesus, 1st-century Greco-Roman physician and anatomist

Rufus Nelson England (1851-1911), Canadian merchant and political figure

Rufus Fitzgerald (1890-1966), American academic at the University of Pittsburgh

Rufus Flint (c. 1865-c. 1895), American Nicaraguan professor of English and mathematics

Rufus Edward Foster (1871-1942), American jurist

Rufus Franklin, American criminal

Rufus French (born 1978), American football player

Rufus S. Frost (1826-1894), American politician

Rufus King Garland, Jr. (1830-1886), American politician

Rufus Hollis Gause (born 1925), American theologian

Rufus Gilbert (1885–1962), American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach

Rufus Henry Gilbert (1832-1885), American surgeon and inventor

Rufus K. Goodenow (1790–1863), American politician

Rufus Granderson (born 1936), American football player

Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815-1857), American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic

Rufus Guthrie (1942-2000), American football player

Rufus Halley (c. 1944-2001), Roman Catholic missionary in the Philippines

Rufus Hannah (born 1955), aka "Rufus the Stunt Bum", of Bumfights fame

Rufus Hardy (representative) (1855-1943), American politician

Rufus K. Hardy (1878–1945), leader and missionary in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Rufus Harley (1936-2006), American jazz musician

Rufus Carrollton Harris (1896-1988), American academic

Rufus D. Hayes (1913-2002), American attorney, judge, and businessman

Rufus Henderson (1779-1847), Canadian physician, merchant and political figure

Rufus G. Herring (1921-1996), American military officer and Medal of Honor winner

Rufus Hessberg, American doctor and aeromedical scientist

Rufus C. Holman (1877-1959), American politician and businessman

Rufus Hound (born 1979), British comedian

Rufus Hussey, American slingshot marksman

Rufus Ingalls (1818-1893), American military general

Rufus Henry Ingram (1834 - ?), American bushwhacker

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860-1935), English politician and jurist

Rufus Isaacs (game theorist) (1914-1981), American mathematician

Rufus Arthur Johnson (born 1976), American rapper

Rufus Zenas Johnston (1874-1959), American military officer and Medal of Honor winner

Rufus Jones (actor) (born 1975), English actor, comedian and writer

Rufus Jones (writer) (1863–1948), American writer, philosopher and Quaker

Rufus R. Jones (1933–1993), American wrestler

Rufus "Speedy" Jones, American jazz drummer

Rufus Keppel, 10th Earl of Albemarle (born 1965), product designer and founder of a men's-shirt company

Rufus King (1755–1827), pre-Civil War US politician

Rufus King (general) (1814-1876), American newspaper editor, educator, diplomat, and military general

Rufus King (writer) (1893–1966), American author of crime novels

Rufus King, Jr. (1838-1900), American military officer

Rufus H. King (1820-1890), American politician

Rufus B. von KleinSmid (1875-1964), American academic

Rufus E. Lester (1837-1906), American politician

Rufus Anderson Lyman (1842–1910), lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Rufus Mallory (1831-1914), American educator, lawyer, and politician

Rufus P. Manson (1830-1897), American politician

Rufus Osgood Mason (1830-1903), American physician, teacher, and researcher in parapsychology and hypnotherapy

Rufus May (born 1968?), British clinical psychologist

Rufus Mayes (1947-1990), American football player

Rufus McCain (died 1940), American prisoner at Alcatraz

Rufus McIntire (1784-1866), American lawyer, military officer, congressman, and land surveyor

Rufus Meadows (1907-1970), American baseball player

Rufus B. Nalley (1870-1902), football, baseball, and track and field player

Rufus Naylor (1882-1939), Australian sporting entrepreneur and gambler

Rufus Norris, British theatre director

Rufus Palen (1807-1844), American politician

Rufus Palmer (1828–1873), Canadian physician and political figure

Rufus Payne, American blues musician known as Tee Tot

Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809–1873), American judge and congressman

Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1838-1909), American jurist

Rufus Ferrand Pelletier (1824-aft. 1879), American postmaster and politician

Rufus Phillips, American intelligence officer

Rufus King Polk (1866-1902), American politician

Rufus Pollock, English economist

Rufus Henry Pope (1857-1944), Canadian politician

Rufus Porter (inventor) (1792-1884), American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine

Rufus Porter (American football) (born 1965), American football player

Rufus L. Porter (1897-1979), American poet

Rufus Putnam (1738-1824), American military officer

Rufus P. Ranney (1813–1891), American politician

Rufus Reid (born 1944), American jazz bassist, educator, and composer

Rufus N. Rhodes (1856-1910), American newspaper editor

Rufus Rodriguez (born 1953), Filipino politician

Rufus G. Russell (1823-1896), American architect

Rufus Sage (1817-1893), American writer, journalist and mountain man

Rufus Saxton (1824-1908), American military general

Rufus Sewell (born 1967), British actor

Rufus Sisson (1890-1977), American basketball player

Rufus Skillern (born 1982), Canadian football player

Rufus Smith (1766-1844), Canadian physician and politician

Rufus Smith (baseball) (1905-1984), American baseball player

Rufus C. Somerby (1832–1903), American entertainer, showman, and panoramist

Rufus P. Spalding (1798-1886), American politician, lawyer and judge

Rufus Phineas Stebbins (1810-1885), American clergyman

Rufus Stephenson (1835-1901), Canadian newspaper editor and political figure

Rufus Stokes (1922-1986), American inventor

Rufus B. Tebbetts (c. 1828–?), American settler

Rufus of Thebes, bishop of Thebes in Greece, referenced in Romans 16:13

Rufus Thibodeaux (1934-2005), American Cajun fiddler

Rufus Thomas (1917–2001), American singer

Rufus Turner, American electronics author

Rufus Wainwright (born 1973), Canadian-American singer-songwriter

Rufus Waller (born 1978). American singer and musician

Rufus Welch (1800-1856), American circus impresario

Rufus Yerxa (born 1951), American Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (1849-1925), American illustrator, journalist and author

Cognomen or nickname

Rufus (Roman cognomen)

King William II of England, called "Rufus", perhaps because of his red-faced appearance

Surname

Alan Rufus (c. 1040–1089), companion of William the Conqueror

Anneli Rufus, American journalist

Geoffrey Rufus (died 1141), English Bishop and Lord Chancellor

Milan Rúfus (1928–2009), Slovak poet and writer

Richard Rufus (born 1975), English football player

Richard Rufus of Cornwall (died c. 1260), English scholastic philosopher and theologian

Music

Rufus (band), American funk band

Rüfüs, Australian alternative dance group (also known as Rüfüs du Sol in North America).

Fictional characters

Rufus, a dog that magically becomes a boy with a necklace on the movies Rufus and its sequel, Rufus 2

Rufus XIV, King of Rubovia, in the British children's television series A Rubovian Legend (1955), created by Gordon Murray

Rufus, a time traveler in the films Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, played by George Carlin

Rufus, the forgotten 13th apostle, from Dogma, played by Chris Rock

Rufus (Kim Possible ally), the naked mole rat from Disney's TV show Kim Possible

Rufus, the little polar bear from the animated series SantApprentice, and two of it's animated films Santa's Apprentice, and The Magic Snowflake

Rufus, the protagonist of the children's cartoon series, The Dreamstone

Rufus (Street Fighter), one of four new fighters in Street Fighter IV

Rufus Moffat, the youngest sibling in Eleanor Estes' Moffats series of books

Rufus Scrimgeour from the Harry Potter books

Rufus Humphrey, The Gossip Girl series

Rufus Shinra from Final Fantasy VII

Rufus, an old cat and Penny's good friend from The Rescuers

Rufus the Bobcat, the mascot for Ohio University

Rufus Lore, a mage of Sabertooth in the Japanese manga series Fairy Tail