Rufus (Roman cognomen)
For other uses, see Rufus (disambiguation).
Rufus is a Roman cognomen borne by a number of individuals, including:
- Annius Rufus, Prefect of Judea in 12 CE
- Calvisius Rufus, governor of Britain in the 3rd century
- Curtius Rufus, 1st-century Roman politician (possibly the same as Quintus Curtius Rufus)
- Faenius Rufus (died 65), Roman senator and praefectus annonae, 55-62 CE
- Gaius Asinius Rufus (ca 110 – aft. 136), Roman Senator
- Lucius Passienus Rufus, consul in 4 BCE
- Lucius Varius Rufus, poet of the 1st century BC
- Lucius Vibullius Rufus, 1st- and 2nd-century Greek aristocrat
- Lucius Vibullius Rufus (son-in-law of Herodes Atticus), 2nd-century Greek aristocrat
- Lucius Virginius Rufus, politician and general of the 1st century
- Marcus Caelius Rufus, politician of the 1st century BC
- Marcus Cluvius Rufus, 1st-century consul, senator, governor, and historian
- Marcus Junius Rufus, 1st-century Roman politician
- Marcus Minucius Rufus (consul 221 BC)
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus (c. 104/3 - 26 BCE), Roman politician, and consul in 53 BCE
- Musonius Rufus, Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century
- Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus, 2nd century Greek Aristocrat
- Publius Rutilius Rufus, politician, general and historian of the 2nd century BC
- Publius Sulpicius Rufus, politician and general of the 2nd century BC
- Quintus Minucius Rufus, 2nd- and 3rd-century BCE Roman politician and consul 197 BCE
- Quintus Pompeius Rufus (consul 88 BC) (died 88 BCE), Roman politician
- Quintus Tineius Rufus (consul 127) (c. 90 – aft. 132), Roman politician
- Quintus Tineius Rufus (consul 182), Roman politician
- Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian of the 1st century|1st or 2nd century
- Rufus (consul 457), consul in 457
- Salvidienus Rufus, 1st-century Roman general
- Servius Sulpicius Rufus, orator of the 1st century BC
- Valgius Rufus, poet of the 1st century BC
