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 •
Rufus A. Doughton (1857–1946), American politician •
Rufus Easton (1774–1834), American lawyer and politician •
Rufus Edmisten (born 1941), American politician and lawyer •
Rufus Elefante (1903–1994), American politician from Utica, New York •
Rufus Nelson England (1851–1911), Canadian merchant and political figure •
Rufus S. Frost (1826–1894), American politician •
Rufus King Garland Jr. (1830–1886), American politician •
Rufus K. Goodenow (1790–1863), American politician •
Rufus Hardy (representative) (1855–1943), American politician •
Rufus Erastus Hart (1812–1891), American politician and lawyer •
Rufus Henderson (1779–1847), Canadian physician, merchant and political figure •
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860–1935), English politician and jurist •
Rufus King (1755–1827), pre-Civil War US politician •
Rufus H. King (1820–1890), American politician •
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 McIntire (1784–1866), American lawyer, military officer, congressman, and land surveyor •
Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809–1873), American judge and congressman •
Rufus W. Peckham (1838–1909), American jurist •
Rufus Ferrand Pelletier (1824–?), American postmaster and politician •
Rufus Pettibone (1784–1825), justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri •
Rufus Phillips (1929–2021), American intelligence officer •
Rufus Henry Pope (1857–1944), Canadian politician •
Rufus K. Polk (1866–1902), American politician •
Rufus Pollock (born 1980), English economist •
Rufus P. Ranney (1813–1891), American politician •
Rufus Rodriguez (born 1953), Filipino politician •
Rufus Smith (1766–1844), Canadian physician and politician •
Rufus P. Spalding (1798–1886), American politician, lawyer and judge •
Rufus P. Tapley (1823–1893), justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
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
Sportsmen •
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 • Rufus Waller, better known as Scola, a member of
Dru Hill, American singer and musician
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 •
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 (1916–1975), American criminal •
Rufus Henry Gilbert (1832–1885), American surgeon and inventor •
Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857), American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic •
Rufus Hannah (1954–2017), aka "Rufus the Stunt Bum", of
Bumfights fame •
Rufus Carrollton Harris (1897–1988), American academic •
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 K. Howell (1820–1890), Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court •
Rufus Hussey (1919–1994), American slingshot marksman •
Rufus Ingalls (1818–1893), American military general •
Rufus Henry Ingram (1834–?), American bushwhacker •
Rufus Isaacs (game theorist) (1914–1981), American mathematician •
Rufus Zenas Johnston (1874–1959), American military officer and Medal of Honor winner •
Rufus Jones (writer) (1863–1948), American writer, philosopher and Quaker •
Rufus R. Jones (1933–1993), American wrestler •
Rufus Keppel, 10th Earl of Albemarle (born 1965), product designer and founder of a men's-shirt company •
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 B. von KleinSmid (1875–1964), American academic •
Rufus Osgood Mason (1830–1903), American physician, teacher, and researcher in parapsychology and hypnotherapy •
Rufus May (born 1968?), British clinical psychologist •
Rufus McCain (1903–1940), American prisoner at Alcatraz •
Rufus Naylor (1882–1939), Australian sporting entrepreneur and gambler •
Rufus Norris (born 1965), British theatre director •
Rufus Palmer (1828–1873), Canadian physician and political figure •
Rufus Porter (painter) (1792–1884), American painter, inventor, and founder of
Scientific American magazine •
Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), American military officer •
Rufus N. Rhodes (1856–1910), American newspaper editor •
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 Stephenson (1835–1901), Canadian newspaper editor and political figure •
Rufus Stokes (1922–1986), American inventor •
Rufus of Thebes, bishop of Thebes in Greece, referenced in Romans 16:13 •
Rufus Welch (1800–1856), American circus impresario •
Rufus Corbin Wood (1818–1885), sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts •
Rufus Yerxa (born 1951), American Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization •
Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (1849–1925), American illustrator, journalist and author == Surname ==