Rufus

Given name

Politicians

Marcus Caelius Rufus, (28 May 82 BC – after 48 BC), orator and politician in the late Roman Republic

Rufus Ada George (born 1940), Nigerian politician

Rufus Aladesanmi III (born 1945), Yoruban king

Rufus Applegarth (1844–1921), American lawyer and politician

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

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

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

Rufus Bousquet (born 1958), Saint Lucian politician

Rufus E. Brown (1854–1920), Vermont attorney, farmer, and politician

Rufus Bullock (1834–1907), American politician

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

Rufus Cheney Jr., member of the Wisconsin State Assembly during the 1850 session

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

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

Rufus Davis (born 1964), mayor of Camilla, Georgia

Rufus B. Dodge Jr. (1861–1935), American lawyer and politician

Religious figures

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

Rufus Anderson (1796–1880), American minister

Rufus Babcock (1798–1895), American clergyman and academic

Rufus Brome (born 1935), Bishop of Barbados

Rufus Hollis Gause (1925–2015), American theologian

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

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

Rufus L. Perry (1834–1895), American educator, journalist, and minister

Rufus Phineas Stebbins (1810–1885), American clergyman

Athletes

Rufus Alexander (born 1983), American football player

Rufus Bess (born 1956), American football player

Rufus Brevett (born 1969), English football player

Rufus Brown (born 1980), American football player

Rufus Crawford (born 1955), Canadian Football League player

Rufus Deal (1917–2005), American football player

Rufus French (born 1978), American football player

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

Rufus Granderson (1936–2015), American football player

Rufus Guthrie (1942–2000), American football player

Rufus Mayes (1947–1990), American football player

Rufus Meadows (1907–1970), American baseball player

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

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

Rufus Sisson (1890–1977), American basketball player

Rufus Skillern (born 1982), Canadian football player

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

Performers

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

Rufus Cappadocia, Canadian-American cellist

Rufus Carl Gordon, Jr. (1932-2010), commonly known as Carl Gordon, American actor

Rufus Harley (1936–2006), American jazz musician

Rufus Hound (born 1979), British comedian

Rufus Arthur Johnson (born 1976), better known as Bizarre, American rapper

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

Rufus "Speedy" Jones (1936–1990), American jazz drummer

Rufus Payne (1883–1939), American blues musician known as Tee Tot

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

Rufus Sewell (born 1967), British actor

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

Rufus Tiger Taylor (born 1991), English musician

Rufus Thibodeaux (1934–2005), American Cajun fiddler

Rufus Thomas (1917–2001), American singer

Rufus P. Turner (1907–1982), American electronics author

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

Others

Rufus Travis Amis (1912–2007), American entrepreneur

Rufus William Bailey (1793–1863), American academic

Rufus Black (born 1969), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania

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

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

Rufus Columbus Burleson (1823–1901), American academic

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

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

Rufus Early Clement (1900–1967), American academic

Rufus Cole (1872–1966), American medical doctor

Rufus Cowles Crampton (1828–1888), American educator

Rufus Dawes (1838–1899), American military officer

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

Rufus Dayglo, English comics artist

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

Rufus Estes (b. 1857 - d.1939), an American chef aboard luxury railway Pullman Company

J. Rufus Fears (1945–2012), American historian, scholar, teacher and author

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

Rufus McCallister, a character in Ninjago

Rufus Carlin, a main character in the 2016 NBC show Timeless (American TV series)

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