Rufus (Roman cognomen)
Rufus is one of the most common of the ancient Roman cognomina.- Quintus Marcius Rufus, an officer of Marcus Licinius Crassus during the Third Servile War in 71 BC
- Annius Rufus, Prefect of Judea in 12 AD
- Calvisius Rufus, governor of Britain in the 3rd century AD
- Curtius Rufus, 1st-century Roman politician
- Faenius Rufus, Roman senator and praefectus annonae, 55-62 AD
- Gaius Asinius Rufus, Roman Senator
- Lucius Passienus Rufus, consul in 4 BC
- Lucius Varius Rufus, poet of the 1st century BC
- Lucius Vibullius Rufus, 1st- and 2nd-century Greek aristocrat
- Lucius Vibullius Rufus, 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
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus, Roman politician, and consul in 53 BC
- 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 BC Roman politician and consul 197 BC
- Quintus Pompeius Rufus , Roman politician
- Quintus Tineius Rufus , Roman politician
- Quintus Tineius Rufus, Roman politician
- Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian of the 1st century|1st or 2nd century
- Rufus, consul in 457 AD
- Quintus Salvidienus Rufus, 1st-century BC Roman general
- Servius Sulpicius Rufus, orator of the 1st century BC
- Valgius Rufus, poet of the 1st century BC
