Rufus

Rufus

Rufus is a name meaning "red" in Latin that could refer to one of the following:

;People
* Rufus (Roman cognomen)
* Several Saints Rufus
* Rufus (actor), a French actor
* Rufus Hannah (aka "Rufus the Stunt Bum"), of "Bumfights" fame
* Rufus Hound, British comedian
* Rufus King, a pre-Civil War US politician
* Rufus Sewell, a British actor
* Rufus Thomas, US singer
* Rufus Milan, Slovak writer
* Rufus Peter, Slovak actor
* Rufus Peter jr., Slovak civil person
* King William II of England (called "Rufus", perhaps because of his red-faced appearance)
* Rufus Wainwright, Canadian-American singer-songwriter
* Rufus of Ephesus, a first century Greco-Roman physician and anatomist

;Fictional characters
* 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" (film), played by Chris Rock
* Rufus (Kim Possible) the naked mole rat from Disney's TV show "Kim Possible"
* Rufus (The Rescuers), the cat from Disney's animated feature "The Rescuers"
* Rufus, the protagonist of the children's cartoon series, "The Dreamstone"
* Rufus, the organist in the wedding chapel in "Kill Bill Volume 2", played by Samuel L. Jackson
* Rufus, a rat-like humanoid in "Beyond Good & Evil" (video game)
* Rufus, an intelligent St. Bernard dog in the Chalet School book series
* Rufus, one of four new fighters in "Street Fighter IV"
* Rufus Buckley, the prosecuting attorney in the 1996 film, "A Time to Kill" (film), as well as the book, "A Time to Kill"
* Rufus Moffat, the youngest sibling in Eleanor Estes' "Moffats" series of books
* Rufus Scrimgeour from the "Harry Potter" books
* Rufus Shinra from "Final Fantasy VII"

;Places
* Rufus, Oregon, a small town in the Columbia River Gorge

;Music
* Rufus (band), a 1970s/1980s funk band fronted by Chaka Khan
* “Whistling Rufus”, composed by Kerry Mills

;Software
* Rufus (BitTorrent client)


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  • Rufus — m English: from a Latin nickname meaning ‘red( haired)’, sometimes used in medieval documents as a translation of various surnames with the same sense. It began to be used as a given name in the 19th century …   First names dictionary

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