Rex

Rex

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	"King"

Rex is the Latin word for "king" (see also King of Rome). In the English language, Rex is a male given name.

Notable people

Politics

• Rex Connor (1907-1977), Australian politician
• Rex Hunt (governor) (1926), former British Governor of the Falkland Islands
• Rex E. Lee (1937-1996), former U.S. Solicitor General

Entertainment and arts

• Rex Allen (1920-1999), American entertainer
• Rex Beach (1877-1949), American novelist and playwright
• Rex Smith (1955), American entertainer
• Rex Stout (1886-1975), American author
• Rex Hunt (1949), Australian television and radio personality and former football player
• Rex Murphy (1947), Canadian commentator
• Rex Navarrete (1969), Filipino American comedian
• Rex Newmark (1984), British television personality

Film, TV and stage

• Rex Cherryman (1897-1928), American stage and screen actor
• Rex Harrison (1908-1990), British actor
• Rex Ingram (actor) (1855-1969), American actor
• Rex Ingram (director) (1893-1950), Irish-born American film director
• Rex Lease (1903-1966), American actor
• Rex Lee (1969), American actor
• Rex Linn (1956), American actor
• Simon Rex (1974), American actor

Music

• Rex Brown (1964), former bassist of heavy metal band Pantera
• Rex (band), an alternative rock band
• Rex Gildo (1939-1999), German singer
• Rex Goudie (1985), Canadian singer and 2005 Canadian Idol runner-up
• Rex Liu (1982), British-Canadian classical bassoonist
• Rex (Live at the Fillmore), a 2008 album by Keller Williams, Keith Moseley and Jeff Austin

Sports

• Rex Barney (1924-1997), American baseball pitcher and announcer
• Rex Chapman (1967), American basketball player
• Rex Grossman (1980), American football player
• Rex Hadnot (1982), American football player
• Rex Hughes, American basketball coach
• Rex Hudler (1960), American baseball player
• Rex Kern (1949), former American football player
• Rex Norris (American football) (1939), American football coach
• Rex Ryan (1962), American football coach
• Rex Tucker (American football) (1976), former American football player
• Rex Walters (1970) American basketball player and coach
• Rex Wilson (1960), New Zealand long-distance runner

Other

• Rex Humbard (1919-2007), American television evangelist
• Rex Paterson (1902-1978), British agriculturalist
• Rex Walheim (1962) American astronaut

Fictional dogs

• Rex, a dog in the animated (claymation) television show Rex the Runt
• Inspector Rex, an Austrian police dog
• Rex the Wonder Dog, a canine DC Comics superhero
• Rex, the sheepdog from the 1995 Academy Award winning film Babe

Other fictional characters

• Rex, a locomotive on the fictional Arlesdale Railway in The Railway Series books
• Rex (Primeval), a Coelurosauravus-like reptile on the television series Primeval
• A character from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
• A character from the game "Rex" by Martech
• A dinosaur-like enemy from the Super Mario video game series
• Metal Gear REX, a mecha from the video game, Metal Gear Solid
• Rex (Toy Story), a toy character from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story movies
• Rex (NX Files), a character in the action adventure web-show NX Files
• Rex Raptor, a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series (known as Dinosaur Ryuzaki in the original version)
• Rex Balsom, a character on the soap opera One Life to Live
• Rex Goodwin, a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's series
• Rex Van de Kamp, a character in the TV series [esperate Housewives
• Clone Captain Rex a clone trooper in Star Wars
• Rex the first attempt at a replacement for Gary in Spongebob Squarepants

Animals

• Tyrannosaurus, often called T. rex, a species of dinosaur of the genus Tyrannosaurus
• Othnielia rex, a species of dinosaur belonging to the Hypsilophodont family
• Balaeniceps rex, the Shoebill, a species of bird with a very distinct bill
• The Cornish Rex and the Devon Rex cat breeds
• The Rex and the Mini Rex, rabbit breeds and type of fur in rabbits
• Rex (dog), a dog once owned by Ronald Reagan
• Rex the Wonder Horse, star of 15 Hollywood motion pictures
• Rex Murphy, a parrot owned by Tom Green, named after the Canadian commentator

Businesses

• Regional Express Airlines (aka Rex), an Australian airline
• Rex, a Carnival Krewe in New Orleans that hosts the Rex parade
• Rex Records, the name of at least three different record labels
• Rex Energy, an independent energy company
• Rex-Meyer Yachts, a custom power-yacht design and builder

Other

• REX TV Pilot, a mockumentary show following the life and career of Simon Rex.
• Rex, King of Carnival, the de facto monarch of the Carnival Season in New Orleans
• rex (language), a programming language used for teaching purposes at Harvey Mudd College
• REX, an IATA airport code for the General Lucio Blanco International Airport in Reynosa, Mexico
• Rex, the dinosaur mascot of the University of Calgary
• Rex (video game), a 1988 game for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
• Rex (musical), a stage musical, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
• Subaru Rex, a Japanese Kei car
• Subaru Impreza WRX (colloquially pronounced as "Impreza Rex"), a car referred to as "Rex"
• REX, a series of PDAs, including the REX 5000 and REX 6000
• SS Rex, an Italian luxury ship, sunk by Allied bombers off the coast of Slovenia in 1944
• Rex (chair), a foldable chair
• Wreckx-N-Effect, hip-hop band

See also

• Oedipus the King (aka Oedipus Rex), a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles
• Oedipus rex (opera), an opera by Igor Stravinsky
• REXX (originally named Rex), a computer programming language
• Rexism, the fascist political movement in Belgium and the ideology of the Rexist Party (officially called Christus Rex)
• T.Rex (band), an English rock band
• R.E.X. Records, a record label