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Rúben Amorim

Rúben Amorim (Rúben Filipe Marques Amorim), Portuguese manager and ex-Benfica midfielder; won two Primeira Liga titles with Sporting CP (3-4-2-1 back three), managed Manchester United November 2024 to January 2026, then AC Milan.

Ruben Bjerg Hansen

Ruben Bjerg Hansen, born 1976 in Holstebro, Denmark, is a Danish designer who co-founded the digital publishing platform Issuu and led its design until 2015.

Rubén Blades

Rubén Blades (born 1948, Panama) is a Panamanian salsa singer-songwriter, actor, and politician of the Fania era; his 1978 album Siembra with Willie Colón defined socially conscious salsa, and he won 12 Grammy and 13 Latin Grammy Awards and served as Panama's Minister of Tourism 2004-2009.

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (1923–2013) was a Mexican poet, philologist, and translator of the Greco-Roman classics who founded UNAM's Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas and won the 1974 Premio Nacional de Letras.

Ruben C. Gur

Ruben C. Gur is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for Science papers from 1980 to 1982 on hemispheric asymmetry and cerebral blood flow.

Rubén Coppel Luken

Rubén Coppel Luken is a Mexican billionaire, one of five brothers who own Grupo Coppel, and chairs its BanCoppel bank and Afore Coppel pension fund.

Rubén D. Costa

Rubén D. Costa, born 1983, is a Spanish chemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich known for light-emitting electrochemical cells and protein-based bio-LEDs.

Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío (1867-1916), born Félix Rubén in Metapa, Nicaragua, was the leading poet of modernismo; his Azul… (1888) opened the movement, renewed Spanish-language metrics with the alejandrino and dactylic verse, and reshaped poetry in Spanish.

Ruben de Ronde

Ruben de Ronde is a Dutch trance DJ, producer, and radio host, co-host of Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance and founder of Statement! Recordings.

Rúben Dias

Rúben Dias, full name Rúben dos Santos Gato Dias, is a Portuguese center-back who joined Manchester City from Benfica in 2020, winning four Premier League titles.

Rubén Díaz Sr.

Rubén Díaz Sr. (born 1943), Bronx Pentecostal minister and conservative Democrat; New York State Senator 2003–2017 and NYC Council member; led opposition to same-sex marriage and lost the 2020 NY-15 primary to Ritchie Torres.

Ruben Fleischer

Ruben Fleischer (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American film director and producer best known for directing Zombieland (2009), Venom (2018), which earned over $850 million, and Uncharted (2022).

Ruben G. Carbonell

Ruben G. Carbonell is a Cuban-born American chemical engineer, the Frank Hawkins Kenan Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

Ruben Gallego

Ruben Gallego, Democratic U.S. senator from Arizona since January 2025, former five-term Phoenix-area congressman, Harvard graduate, and Iraq War Marine veteran who defeated Kari Lake in 2024 and is Arizona's first Latino senator.

Rubén Gómez (footballer, born 2002)

Rubén Gómez Peris (born 2002, Alzira) is a Spanish goalkeeper at Villarreal CF, number 13. Academy product from UD Alzira since 2019, Segunda División debut with Villarreal B in 2023-24, contracted to June 2027. Not the Atlético Madrid winger born 2009.

Rubén Gómez (singer)

Rubén Gómez (born Brooklyn, New York; 1974 or 1975, sources differ) is an American Latin pop singer of Puerto Rican heritage, a Menudo member 1987–1990, later a solo artist on Arista, Broadway actor, Evoluxion member, and 2026 Menudo reunion participant.

Rubén González

Rubén González (1919–2003) was a Cuban pianist from Encrucijada, a founding musician of the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club who released two late solo albums on World Circuit.

Ruben Hyppolite II

Ruben Hyppolite II (born 2001) is an NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears, drafted 132nd overall in 2025 out of Maryland; a 4.39-second 40 runner, 2023 team captain, and 2026 injured reserve player.

Ruben Juanes

Ruben Juanes (Rubén Juanes) is a computational geoscientist and MIT professor who studies multiphase flow in porous media, applied to carbon sequestration and induced earthquakes.

Ruben Kretzschmar

Ruben Kretzschmar is a Swiss-based environmental chemist, Professor Emeritus of Soil Chemistry at ETH Zurich, known for tracing how arsenic and mercury move and bind in soils and sediments.

Ruben Limardo

Rubén Darío Limardo Gascón (Ruben Limardo), Venezuelan left-handed épée fencer born 1985 in Ciudad Bolívar; 2012 London Olympic champion, first Venezuelan Olympic gold since 1968, two-time world silver medalist.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Ruben Loftus-Cheek, English midfielder born 1996 in Lewisham; Chelsea academy product (155 appearances) now at AC Milan since 2023; 11 England caps, 2018 World Cup semi-finalist.

Rubén Martín

Rubén Martín Romo, born 1976 in Barcelona, is a Spanish organic chemist and ICREA professor at ICIQ in Tarragona known for nickel-catalyzed activation of inert bonds and carbon dioxide use.

Rúben Neves

Rúben Diogo da Silva Neves (born 1997), Portuguese midfielder; youngest Champions League captain (18y 221d, Porto 2015), Wolves' record £15.8m signing, now Al-Hilal captain-figure with 66 Portugal caps and 2026 World Cup.

Ruben Östlund

Ruben Östlund (born 1974, Styrsö, Sweden) is the Swedish director of Force Majeure, The Square, and Triangle of Sadness, twice consecutive Palme d'Or winner known for long-take social satire, now working on The Entertainment System Is Down.

Ruben Rellan-Alvarez

Rubén Rellán-Álvarez is a Spanish-born plant biologist at North Carolina State University who studies how roots and mineral nutrition adapt to stress, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Ruben Santiago-Hudson, American actor, playwright and director; Tony winner for Seven Guitars (1996); Tony-winning director of Jitney (2017); wrote, directed and starred in Lackawanna Blues; screenwriter of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Rúben Semedo

Rúben Semedo (Ruben Afonso Borges Semedo), Portuguese central defender born 1994 in Amadora; Sporting CP academy product sold to Villarreal for €14M in 2017, imprisoned 142 days in a 2018 Spanish criminal case, later at Olympiacos, Porto, Qatari clubs and AVS, with 3 Portugal caps.

Ruben Sim

Ruben Sim (Benjamin Robert Simon, born 1997) is an American YouTuber with 1.35 million subscribers known for Roblox criticism, the 2021 Roblox lawsuit settled for $150,000, and EASI moderation tools.

Ruben Studdard

Ruben Studdard (Christopher Ruben Studdard), the "Velvet Teddy Bear," is an American R&B and gospel singer who won American Idol season 2 in 2003, beating Clay Aiken, and recorded Soulful and I Need an Angel.