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Ruby Rose
Ruby Rose (Ruby Rose Langenheim, born 1986, Melbourne) is an Australian actress, MTV VJ, model, and DJ known for Orange Is the New Black, Batwoman, and gender-fluid advocacy.
Ruby Rose Turner
Ruby Rose Turner (born 2005), American actress and dancer; also known for Cami Wrather in Disney Channel's Coop & Cami Ask the World. Distinct from singer Ruby Turner and actor Ruby Rose; starred as Bridget in Descendants: The Rise of Red.
Ruby slippers
Ruby slippers: the sequined red shoes Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in MGM's 1939 Wizard of Oz, changed from Baum's silver to show off Technicolor; several pairs survive, including the Smithsonian's stolen-and-recovered twin, which sold for $32.5 million in 2024.
Ruby Soho (wrestler)
Ruby Soho (Dori Elizabeth Prange, born 1991) is an American wrestler, formerly Heidi Lovelace on the indies and Ruby Riott in WWE, now signed to AEW, where she won her 2021 All Out debut battle royale.
Ruby Sparks
Ruby Sparks is a 2012 American romantic comedy-fantasy film directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, written by and co-starring Zoe Kazan opposite Paul Dano.
Ruby Stokes
Ruby Stokes (Ruby May Stokes, born 2000, Hackney, London) is a British actress known for Francesca Bridgerton in Bridgerton seasons 1–2, Lucy Carlyle in Lockwood & Co., and films Una, Rocks, and A Banquet.
Ruby Sunday
Ruby Sunday is a fictional Doctor Who companion, the Fifteenth Doctor's first companion, played by Millie Gibson; a foundling left at a church on Christmas Eve 2004, debuting in The Church on Ruby Road (2023).
Ruby Tandoh
Ruby Tandoh (born 1992, Southend) is a British food writer and 2013 Great British Bake Off finalist; author of Crumb, Flavour, Eat Up!, Cook As You Are, and All Consuming (2025), formerly a Guardian columnist.
Ruby Tuesday (restaurant)
Ruby Tuesday is an American casual dining restaurant chain founded in 1972 in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its burgers and all-you-can-eat Garden Bar salad station.
Ruby Tuesday (song)
"Ruby Tuesday" is a 1967 Rolling Stones song, written mostly by Keith Richards about Linda Keith, released in January 1967 and a number-one hit in the United States.
Ruby Tui
Ruby Malae Tui, New Zealand rugby union wing born 1991 in Wellington; Olympic sevens silver (Rio 2016) and gold (Tokyo 2020), 2019 World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year, Black Ferns No. 235, 2021 World Cup winner, author of Straight Up.
Ruby Walsh
Ruby Walsh (Rupert Walsh, born 1979) is a retired Irish National Hunt jockey, son of Ted Walsh; 2,756 career winners, record 59 Cheltenham Festival winners, 12 Irish titles, two Grand Nationals, retired May 2019.
Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax (Ruby Wachs), American-born comedian and mental health campaigner based in the UK; host of The Full Wax and Ruby Wax Meets..., script editor of Absolutely Fabulous, Oxford mindfulness master's, OBE 2015, founder of Frazzled Cafe.
Ruby-Spears
Ruby-Spears, or Ruby-Spears Productions/Enterprises, was an American TV animation studio founded in 1977 by Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears; sold to Taft in 1981, library to Turner in 1991, closed 1996.
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), the only breeding hummingbird of eastern North America; migrates to Central America, may cross the Gulf of Mexico non-stop, weighs about 4.8 g, wings beat about 53 times per second, population roughly 36 million.
RubyGems
RubyGems is the package manager for the Ruby programming language, packaging libraries and applications as gems installed with the gem command; it launched in 2004 and works with Bundler and the RubyGems.org registry.
Rucaparib
Rucaparib (Rubraca) is an oral PARP-1/2/3 inhibitor by pharmaand GmbH, FDA-approved for BRCA-mutated recurrent ovarian cancer maintenance and, since December 2025, BRCA-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer after androgen receptor-directed therapy.
Ruch Chorzów
Ruch Chorzów, Polish football club founded 1920 in Bismarckhütte (Chorzów); record 14 Polish championships (1933–1989), 3 Polish Cups; European Cup and UEFA Cup quarterfinalist; three relegations then three promotions 2017–2023.
Ruchi Veera
Ruchi Veera, also spelled Ruchi Vira, is an Indian Samajwadi Party politician who has represented Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier serving in the state assembly from Bijnor.
Rucka Rucka Ali
Rucka Rucka Ali (born 1987) is an American parody rap artist and comedian from Michigan, known for YouTube song parodies like "Ching Chang Chong" and "Ima Korean," repeated hate-speech takedowns, and Billboard Top Comedy Albums charting releases.
Rucker Park
Rucker Park (Holcombe Rucker Park), Harlem, NYC, at 155th Street and Eighth Avenue; legendary streetball court, home of the Entertainers Basketball Classic, NBPA-refurbished Greg Marius Court, and 2025 National Commemorative Site.
Rückingen
Rückingen, in Erlensee, Hesse, Germany, site of a Roman cohort fort (Kastell Rückingen) on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, built AD 110–125 for Cohors III Dalmatarum; UNESCO World Heritage component with preserved bathhouse walls.
Ruckus Networks
Ruckus Networks, formerly Ruckus Wireless, is an American company in Sunnyvale, California that makes enterprise Wi-Fi access points, switching, and management software, best known for its BeamFlex adaptive antennas.
RuCl3
RuCl3, or alpha-ruthenium trichloride, is a layered magnetic insulator whose Ru ions form a honeycomb lattice, making it the leading candidate Kitaev quantum spin liquid material.
Ruco Chan (陈展鹏)
Ruco Chan (陳展鵬, Chan Chin-pang, born 1977) is a Hong Kong TVB actor and singer, nicknamed 煎Pan, a former ATV artiste and table tennis player who won the 2016 TVB Best Actor award for A Fist Within Four Walls.
Rucunshu coup
The Rucunshu coup was a December 1896 palace revolution in Rwanda in which Queen Mother Kanjogera and her brothers killed King Mibambwe IV Rutarindwa and installed her son as Yuhi V Musinga.
Ruda
Ruda: name of several European mining localities, chiefly Ruda-Brad, a Roman gold mine in Hunedoara, Romania, with 120 m-deep workings and wheel drainage; also sites in Czechia, Poland, and Rude, Croatia.
Rudaali (रुदाली)
Rudaali (रुदाली), also Rudali, is Kalpana Lajmi's 1993 Hindi drama adapted from Mahasweta Devi's short story, starring Dimple Kapadia as Shanichari, a Rajasthani professional mourner who cannot cry; it won Kapadia the National Film Award for Best Actress.
Rūdaki (Mercurian crater)
Rūdaki crater, Mercury, IAU Feature ID 5252; 124 km wide at 3.97S 51.76W in Kuiper quadrangle H-6; approved 1976 for Persian poet Rudaki; floor lava-flooded by Sihtu Planitia.
Rudaki (رودکی)
Rudaki (رودکی), Abu ʿAbd-Allāh Jaʿfar ibn Moḥammad, ca. 858-941, Samanid court poet at Bukhara called the father of Persian poetry; only about a thousand verses survive from a claimed 1.3 million lines.