Ruffin
Encyclopedia

Family name

  • Bruce Ruffin
    Bruce Ruffin
    Bruce Ruffin is a rocksteady and reggae artist.-Biography:...

     - Reggae singer
  • David Ruffin
    David Ruffin
    Davis Eli "David" Ruffin was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations from 1964 to 1968...

     - American singer, one of the lead singers with The Temptations
  • Edmund Ruffin
    Edmund Ruffin
    Edmund Ruffin was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political activist. He advocated states' rights, secession, and slavery and was described by opponents as one of the Fire-Eaters. He was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and a longstanding enemy of the North...

     - Agricultural writer and Confederate independence firebrand
  • François Amable Ruffin
    François Amable Ruffin
    François Amable Ruffin was a Général de division of the First French Empire.- Biography :Having been captain of a company of volunteers from Bolbec, he was named commander of the 7th Battalion of Seine-Inférieure on 20 September 1792...

     - French general
  • George Lewis Ruffin
    George Lewis Ruffin
    George Lewis Ruffin was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard Law School in 1869, and the first African American to serve on the Boston City Council...

     - First African American Harvard graduate
  • Jimmy Ruffin
    Jimmy Ruffin
    Jimmy Ruffin is an American soul singer, and elder brother of the late David Ruffin of The Temptations. He had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted."-Life:...

     - American singer
  • Josephine Ruffin
    Josephine Ruffin
    Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was an American publisher, journalist, African American civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor for Women’s Era, the first newspaper published by and for African American women...

     - American civil rights leader
  • Michael Ruffin
    Michael Ruffin
    Michael David Ruffin is an American professional basketball player who plays for Obradoiro CAB in Spain. At 6'8" and 248 lbs, he plays as a forward/center....

     - American basketball player
  • Oxblood Ruffin
    Oxblood Ruffin
    Oxblood Ruffin is a Canadian hacker. He is a member of the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow , for which he serves as "Foreign Minister." He is also the founder and executive director of Hacktivismo, an off-shoot of cDc....

     - Canadian hacker, member of Cult of the Dead Cow and Hacktivismo

Gina Ruffin Moore - Author, Politician

Given name

  • Ruffin McNeill
    Ruffin McNeill
    Ruffin McNeill is the head football coach for the East Carolina Pirates. Before being named head coach, McNeill served the Texas Tech Red Raiders as an interim head coach, assistant head coach, special teams coordinator, and linebackers coach...

    - Current defensive coordinator for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
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