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Rueyling Lin (林瑞玲)
Rueyling Lin (林瑞玲) is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for her research on C. elegans developmental genetics.
Ruf Automobile
Ruf Automobile GmbH, the German manufacturer founded in Pfaffenhausen, Bavaria, in 1939, began with Porsche-based conversions and became certified in 1981, best known for the 1987 CTR Yellowbird.
Ruf CTR
The Ruf CTR, also known as the Ruf CTR Yellowbird, is a twin-turbo sports car built by Ruf Automobile of Pfaffenhausen, Germany, from 1987 on a Porsche 911 shell.
Rufai Oseni
Rufai Oseni (born 1980) is a Nigerian broadcast journalist and co-host of Arise TV's The Morning Show, known for confrontational, fact-checking interviews with politicians; formerly a radio presenter, he joined Arise News in 2019 and was named Nigerian Broadcaster of the Year (Male) in 2026.
Rufət Huseynov
Rufət Huseynov (Rufət İlham oğlu Hüseynov), Azerbaijani light-flyweight boxer born 1997 in Ganja; won gold at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympics, European bronze 2015, and competed at Rio 2016.
Ruff (clothing)
The ruff, known in Dutch as the millstone collar, is a detachable pleated collar in starched linen or lace worn in western Europe from the mid-1500s to the mid-1600s.
Ruff Ryders Entertainment
Ruff Ryders Entertainment, also Ruff Ryders Records or Ruff Ryders Indy, is a Yonkers, New York hip-hop label founded by the Dean siblings, home to DMX, Eve, the LOX, and producer Swizz Beatz.
Ruffa Gutierrez
Ruffa Gutierrez (Sharmaine Ruffa Rama Gutierrez), Filipina actress, host, and Binibining Pilipinas World 1993 titleholder, second runner-up at Miss World 1993; played Imelda Marcos in Maid in Malacañang and Martyr or Murderer.
Ruffed grouse
Ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus), also called partridge or thunder-chicken, is North America's most widespread resident game bird, a Phasianidae forest grouse known for the male's wing-beat drumming display, 10-year northern population cycles, and eastern declines from young-forest loss.
Ruffenhofen
Ruffenhofen Roman fort and vicus, a 3.7 ha cavalry fort on the Raetian Limes in Bavaria, occupied about 110-260 AD, largest between Aalen and Weißenburg, now the Römerpark and LIMESEUM museum.
Rufi Thorpe
Rufi Thorpe, American novelist (MFA University of Virginia, 2009), author of four literary fiction novels: The Girls from Corona del Mar (2014), The Knockout Queen (PEN/Faulkner finalist), and the Kirkus Prize-finalist Margo's Got Money Troubles (2024), adapted for Apple TV+.
Rufiji-Mafia-Kilwa Marine Ramsar Site
Rufiji-Mafia-Kilwa Marine Ramsar Site (RUMAKI), Tanzania's only coastal marine Ramsar site, designated 2004, covering 596,908 ha of Rufiji Delta mangroves, Mafia Island reefs, Songo-Songo and the Mafia Channel.
Rufina Cambaceres
Rufina Eugenia Cambaceres (1883–1902), daughter of novelist Eugenio Cambaceres, died on her 19th birthday; her Recoleta art nouveau tomb anchors Buenos Aires's famous buried-alive legend, which documentary research rejects.
Rufinamide
Rufinamide (Inovelon, Banzel) is a triazole antiseizure medication that prolongs sodium channel inactivation, approved as add-on therapy for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome seizures in the EU (2007) and US (2009).
Rufino Blanco Fombona
Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874–1944) was a Venezuelan modernist writer, diarist, and editor who spent decades in exile opposing the Gómez dictatorship and founded Editorial América in Madrid.
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) was a Mexican painter and printmaker whose boldly colored, semiabstract paintings combined European modernism with Mexican folk art, standing apart from the political muralists.
Rufino Vigil González
Rufino Vigil González, born 1948 in Mexico City, is a Mexican steel businessman who chairs Industrias CH and Grupo Simec and owns about 63 percent of it.
Rufinus (epigrammatist)
Rufinus (Ῥουφῖνος) was a Greek poet of the Roman imperial period, otherwise unknown, whose about 35 erotic epigrams survive in Book V of the Greek Anthology.
Rufisque
Rufisque (Tëngéej in Wolof) is a port city in Senegal, about 25 kilometers east of Dakar, and one of the four historic communes of French Senegal.
Rufisque Department
Rufisque Department, a department of Senegal's Dakar region with chief town Rufisque, one of the four historic comptoirs; 12 communes, 818,337 inhabitants (RGPH 2023), Diamniadio new city and Lac Rose within it.
Rufus (band)
Rufus (band): American funk and soul band from Chicago, active 1971–1983, that launched Chaka Khan; hits "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", and "Ain't Nobody", two Grammy wins. Distinct from the Australian electronic trio Rüfüs du Sol.
Rufus (software)
Rufus, the Reliable USB Formatting Utility, is a free open-source Windows tool by Pete Batard that creates bootable USB installation media from ISO images, including Windows 11.
Rufus Buck Gang
Rufus Buck Gang, a five-member Creek Nation outlaw band of 1895 led by 18-year-old Rufus Buck; killed Deputy Marshal John Garrett and others, then all five were hanged July 1, 1896 at Fort Smith under Judge Parker.
Rufus Cole
Rufus Cole (1872–1966) was an American physician and the first director of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital, who developed the first effective serum treatment for lobar pneumonia.
Rüfüs Du Sol
Rüfüs Du Sol (formerly RÜFÜS) is an Australian electronic trio formed in Sydney in 2010: Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George, James Hunt. Five albums, three ARIA No. 1s, a 2022 Grammy for "Alive," and a hybrid live band-electronic show.
Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound, born Robert James Blair Simpson in 1979, is an English comedian, actor, and presenter known for Celebrity Juice, Mock the Week, the CBBC sitcom Hounded, and West End roles in One Man, Two Guvnors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and The Wind in the Willows.
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (Rufus Daniel Isaacs), was a British Liberal lawyer and judge who served as Viceroy of India from 1921 to 1926.
Rufus Jones (actor)
Rufus Jones (born 1975, London) is an English actor and writer, David Wilkes in W1A, Dr. Foggerty in Hunderby, and creator-star of Channel 4's Home; not the musician or Rufus Sewell.
Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), American Revolutionary engineer and brigadier general, chief engineer under Washington, founder of the Ohio Company of Associates and of Marietta, Ohio, first Northwest Territory settlement; surveyor-general 1796–1803.
Rufus Sewell
Rufus Frederik Sewell, British actor born 1967 in Twickenham, trained at Central School of Speech and Drama; known for Middlemarch, Arcadia, Rock 'n' Roll (Olivier), The Man in the High Castle, Victoria, Scoop's Prince Andrew, and Hal Wyler in The Diplomat.