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Rufus is a masculine given name, a surname, an Ancient Roman cognomen and a nickname (from Latin rufus , "red"). Notable people with the name include:

Contents

• Given name
• Politicians
• Religious figures
• Sportsmen
• Performers
• Others
• Surname
• Cognomen or nickname
• Animals
• Objects
• Fictional characters
• See also

Given name

Surname

• Alexis Rufus (born 1979), English Muay Thai kickboxer
• 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

Cognomen or nickname

• Rufus (born 1942), stage name of Italian-French actor Jacques Narcy
• Rufus (Roman cognomen), list of people who had one of the most common of the ancient Roman cognomina
• King William II of England (1050s–1100), called "William Rufus"
• Alan Rufus (c. 1040–1089), companion of William the Conqueror
• Richard Rufus of Cornwall (died 1260), English scholastic philosopher and theologian
• Roger Squires, crossword compiler nicknamed Rufus

Animals

• Rufus the Hawk, a bird used to keep pigeons away from the tennis grass courts at Wimbledon

Objects

• the demon core, the plutonium nuclear weapon core that was involved in two deadly nuclear accidents, was originally nicknamed "Rufus"

Fictional characters

• Rufus (Street Fighter), one of four new fighters in Street Fighter IV
• Rufus the Bobcat, the mascot for Ohio University
• Rufus, a naked mole rat from Disney's TV show Kim Possible; see List of Kim Possible characters
• Rufus McCallister, a character in Ninjago
• Rufus Carlin, a main character in the 2016 NBC show Timeless
• Rufus Emeterio, a character in the novel They Both Die at the End
• Rufus Moffat, title character of the book Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
• Rufus Ruffcut, from Hanna-Barbera's TV show Wacky Races
• Rufus Scrimgeour, from the Harry Potter universe; see Ministry of Magic
• Rufus Shinra, from the Final Fantasy VII video games; see Characters of the Final Fantasy VII series
• Rufus Turner, from the American television drama Supernatural; see List of Supernatural characters
• Rufus XIV, King of Rubovia, in the 1955 British children's television series A Rubovian Legend
• Rufus, from the 1977 animated film The Rescuers
• Rufus, the forgotten 13th apostle in the film Dogma , played by Chris Rock
• Rufus, protagonist of the children's cartoon series The Dreamstone
• Rufus, time traveler in the films Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, played by George Carlin
  • Rufus, time traveler in the television Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992 TV series), an adaptation of the above film, played by Rick Overton
• Rufus, an anthropomorphic raccoon skin from the 2017 video game Fortnite
• Rufus Humphrey, a character from the television series Gossip Girl
• Rufus, a character in the movie Kill Bill: Volume 2, played by Samuel L. Jackson
• Rufus T. Firefly, a character in the 1933 film Duck Soup, played by Groucho Marx

See also

• Rufus (software)
• Rufus, the shopping AI chatbot for Amazon (company)
• Saint Rufus (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Rufus
• All pages with titles containing Rufus

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