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

People

• Rufus (Roman cognomen)
• Several Saints Rufus
• Jacques "Rufus" Narcy, a French actor
• Rufus (cryptic crossword compiler), pseudonym of Roger Squires
• Rufus Hannah (aka "Rufus the Stunt Bum"), of Bumfights fame
• Rufus Hound, British comedian
• Rufus King, a pre-Civil War US politician
• Rufus Sewell, British actor
• Rufus Thomas, US singer
• 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, played by Chris Rock
• Rufus (Kim Possible), the naked mole rat from Disney's TV show Kim Possible
• 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 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

[edit] See also

• All pages beginning with "Rufus"

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