Ruby (disambiguation)

A ruby is a red gemstone.

Ruby may also refer to:

Locations

• Ruby, Alaska
• Ruby, Arizona
• Ruby, Wisconsin, a town
  • Ruby (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Ruby Beach, Washington
• Ruby Canyon, on the Colorado-Utah border
• Ruby Creek (disambiguation)
• Ruby Falls, an underground waterfall within Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
• Ruby Mountain, a stratovolcano in British Columbia, Canada
• Ruby Mountains, a mountain range in Nevada
  • Ruby Dome, the highest peak of the Ruby Mountains
• Ruby Ridge, Idaho, site of a violent confrontation and siege
• Ruby Valley, Nevada

Entertainment media

Fictional characters

• Ruby (Jewelpet)
• Ruby (Pokémon)
• Ruby (Supernatural)
• Ruby (The Land Before Time)
• Ruby Allen, EastEnders character played by Louisa Lytton
• Ruby Buckton,'Home and Away character played by Rebecca Breeds
• Ruby Crescent, an O-Parts Hunter character
• Ruby Trollman, a Trollz character
• Ruby, an According to Jim character
• Ruby, a promotional character created by ATI Technologies
• Ruby Dennis, the protagonist of the film Dear Mr. Wonderful
• Ruby, a rabbit in the Max and Ruby book series
• Ruby, the protagonist of the radio drama Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe
• Ruby, the protagonist of the TV series Ruby Gloom
• Ruby, a The Tribe character

Film

• Ruby (1977 film), a 1977 supernatural horror film
• Ruby (1992 film), a 1992 film about Jack Ruby
• Ruby Sparks, a 2012 romantic comedy film

Games

• Pokémon Ruby, a video game

Television

• Ruby (TV series), a Style Network program
  • Ruby Gettinger, star of the above-mentioned program
• Ruby & The Rockits, a TV series aired on ABC Family
  • Ruby Gallagher, star of the above-mentioned program

Literature

• Ruby (V. C. Andrews novel)

Music

Albums

• Ruby (Ruby album)
• Ruby (Sirsy album)

Songs

• "Ruby" (song), by Kaiser Chiefs from the album Yours Truly, Angry Mob
• "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", a song written by Mel Tillis
• "Ruby", a song from the film Ruby Gentry
• "Ruby", a 1960 song by Ray Charles
• "Ruby", a song by Kristin Hersh from the album Sunny Border Blue
• "Ruby", a song by QueenAdreena from the album Djin (album)

Artists and record labels

• Ruby (band), an alternative group formed in 1994
• Ruby & the Romantics, an American R&B group
• Ruby Records, a record label
• Ruby, a band featuring Tom Fogerty
• Ruby, a performer in the English hip pop quintet KING

People

• Ruby (given name)
• Ruby (Egyptian singer) (born 1981), singer and actress
• Ruby (pornographic actress), American pornographic actress
• Ruby Bradley (1907–2002), Army nurse
• Ruby Dandridge (born 1899), actress
• Ruby Dee (born 1924), actress
• Ruby Dhalla (born 1974), Canadian politician
• Ruby Nash Garnett (born 1939), lead singer of American group Ruby & the Romantics
• Ruby Goldstein ("Ruby the Jewel of the Ghetto"; 1907–84), American welterweight boxer and referee
• Ruby Keeler (1910–1993), actress, singer and dancer
• Ruby Laffoon (1869–1941), 43rd Governor of Kentucky
• Ruby Lin (born 1976), Taiwanese actress
• Ruby Murray (1935–1996), singer
• Ruby Myers (1907–1983), also known as Sulochana, Indian silent film actress
• Ruby Payne-Scott (1912–1981), pioneering Australian astronomer
• Ruby Rose (born 1986), Australian MTV VJ
• Ruby Rubacuori (born 1993), Karima el Mahroug, allegedly had sex with the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi when underage
• Ruby Walsh (born 1979), Irish jockey
• Ruby Wax (born 1953), comedian
• Ruby Yang, Chinese-American filmmaker
• Clayton Ruby, Canadian lawyer
• Harry Ruby (1895–1974), American songwriter and screenwriter
• Jack Ruby (1911–1967), the man who killed presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
• Karine Ruby (1978–2009), French snowboarder
• Lloyd Ruby (born 1928), race car driver
• Sam Ruby, software developer

Programming

• Ruby (hardware description language)
• Ruby (programming language)
• Ruby MRI, the C reference implementation of the Ruby language

Other uses

• Ruby, an inter-war French manufacturer of light cars and proprietary engines
• The color ruby
• A type of mango fruit
• A notable elephant
• A type of pistol
• Ruby character, a type of annotation for logographic characters
• Project Ruby, a joint Anglo-American program to test a range of bunker-buster bombs
• The Rubygate, a scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi and the prostitute Karima El Mahroug – also known by the stage name Ruby Rubacuori (Italian for "Ruby Heart-stealer")
• A Ruby wedding anniversary is the 40th.

See also

• Rubi (disambiguation)
• Rubin (disambiguation)
• Rubis, a rocket system