Rubin is both a surname and a given name. Rubins is a Latvian-language form of the name. As a Jewish name, it derives from the biblical name

Reuben Reuben or Reuven is a Biblical male first name from Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (Re'uven), meaning "behold, a son". In the Bible, Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob. Variants include Rúben in European Portuguese; Rubens in Brazilian Portugue ...

. The choice is also influenced by the word ''rubin'' meaning "ruby" is some languages."Rubin"
in ''Dictionary of American Family Names'', Oxford University Press Notable people with the name include:

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Rubin Carter Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison. In ...

, nicknamed The Hurricane, boxer who was imprisoned and later absolved *

Rubin Goldmark Rubin Goldmark (August 15, 1872 – March 6, 1936) was an American composer, pianist, and educator.Perlis, ''New Grove Dictionary of American Music'', v. II, p. 239 Although in his time he was an often-performed American nationalist composer, hi ...

* Rubin Kantorovich *

Rubin Patiția Rubin Patiția (–June 13, 1918) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian lawyer and political activist. A native of the Transylvania region, he trained as a lawyer, settling in Alba Iulia in the 1870s and using his position to advance the local R ...

Surname

Alan Rubin Alan Rubin (February 11, 1943 – June 8, 2011), also known as Mr. Fabulous, was an American musician. He played trumpet, flugelhorn, and piccolo trumpet. Early life and education Rubin was born in Brooklyn. He began attending Juilliard S ...

, American musician *

Albert Rubin Albert Rubin (10 July 1887 – 31 May 1956) was a Bulgarian-born Jewish painter, sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator. He was selected for the first class of Bezalel Art School, and later established his artistic career in Paris, where he ...

(1887–1956), Jewish painter *

Andrejs Rubins Andrejs Rubins (26 November 1978 – 1 August 2022) was a Latvian professional footballer who played as a left midfielder. He was a member of the Latvia national team. Rubins worked as a football manager. Club career Born in Riga, Rubins start ...

(born 1978), Latvian footballer *

Andy Rubin Andrew E. Rubin is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Rubin founded Android Inc. in 2003, which was acquired by Google in 2005; Rubin served as a Google vice president for 9 years and led Google's efforts in ...

, senior vice president of Mobile at Google *

Arthur Rubin Arthur Leonard Rubin (born 1956) is an American mathematician and aerospace engineer. He was named a Putnam Fellow on four consecutive occasions from 1970 to 1973. Life and career Rubin's mother was Jean E. Rubin, a professor of mathematics at ...

(born 1956), American mathematician *

Avi Rubin Aviel David "Avi" Rubin (born November 8, 1967) is an expert in systems and networking security. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Technical Director of the Information Se ...

, Expert on electronic voting security *

Barbara Rubin Barbara Rubin (1945–1980) was an American filmmaker and performance artist. She is best known for her landmark 1963 underground film ''Christmas on Earth''. Life and career Barbara Rubin grew up in the Cambria Heights neighborhood of Queens, ...

(1945–1980), American filmmaker and performance artist * Benjamin Rubin (1917–2010), American microbiologist *

Bruce Joel Rubin Bruce Joel Rubin (born March 10, 1943) is an American screenwriter, meditation teacher, and photographer. His films often explore themes of life and death with metaphysical and science fiction elements. Prominent among them are '' Jacob's Ladder' ...

(born 1943), Oscar-winning screenwriter * Carol Rubin (1945–2001), American film producer *

Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin (born February 18, 1976) is an American former top-10 professional tennis player. During her career, she reached the semifinals at the 1996 Australian Open, the quarterfinals of the French Open three times, and had wins over world- ...

(born 1976), American retired professional tennis player * Charles T. Rubin, political science professor *

Danny Rubin Danny Rubin (born 1957) is an American screenwriter and playwright. He wrote the original story, and then co-wrote with Harold Ramis the screenplay for the comedy film ''Groundhog Day'' (1993), for which the two received a BAFTA Award for Best ...

(born 1991), American-Israeli basketball player *

Daphne Rubin-Vega Daphne Rubin-Vega ( Vega; born November 18, 1969) is a Panamanian-American actress, dancer, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for originating the roles of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical ''Rent'' and Lucy in the Off-Broadway play ''J ...

(born 1969), American dance music singer and actress *

Dave Rubin David Joshua Rubin (born in June 1976) is an American conservative political commentator and YouTuber. He is the creator and host of ''The Rubin Report'', a political talk show on YouTube and on the network BlazeTV. Launched in 2013, his show ...

(born 1976), American comedian, talk show host and television personality *

Donald Rubin Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...

, Professor of Statistics *

Donna Rubin Donna Rubin (born October 5, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. She represented the U.S. at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a silver medal in doubles with Jodi Appelbaum-Steinbauer, and at the 1981 Maccabiah Gam ...

(born 1959), American tennis player *

Eduard Rubin Eduard Alexander Rubin (17 July 1846 – 6 July 1920) was a Swiss mechanical engineer who is most notable for having invented the full metal jacket bullet in 1882. His most famous cartridge was the 7.5×55mm Swiss which was the standard am ...

, Swiss Army, inventor of the first jacketed rifle bullets (1882) and co-inventor of the Schmidt–Rubin rifle *

Edgar John Rubin Edgar John Rubin (September 6, 1886 – May 3, 1951) was a Danish psychologist/ phenomenologist, remembered for his work on figure-ground perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase. Born to Jewish parents, Rubin was bor ...

(1886–1951) *

Enriqueta González Rubín Enriqueta González Rubín (17 April 1832 – 9 November 1877) was a Spanish writer. Her 1875 ''Viaxe del tío Pacho el Sordo a Uviedo'' is the earliest known novel published in Asturian. Early life and career Relatively little is known abo ...

(1832–1877), Spanish writer and journalist * Eric J. Rubin, Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health *

Eric S. Rubin Eric Seth Rubin (born March 30, 1961) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2016 to 2019. He was confirmed as ambassador on January 27, 2016, and succeeded Marcie Berman Ries. Diplomatic career Rubin j ...

(born 1961), American diplomat and ambassador *

Erik Rubin Erik Rubín Milanszenko (born 30 January 1971) is a Mexican singer and actor. He was a member of the Mexican teen pop group Timbiriche. Early career At the age of 12, Rubín joined the group Timbiriche, one of the most important and influent ...

(born 1971), Mexican singer and actor *

Gayle Rubin Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949 in South Carolina) is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics. She has written on a range of subjects including feminism, sadomasochism, prostitu ...

(born 1949), American cultural anthropologist * Gerald M. Rubin, American geneticist *

Gretchen Rubin Gretchen Craft Rubin (born December 14, 1965) is an American author, blogger and speaker. Early life and education Born Gretchen Anne Craft, Gretchen Rubin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where her father was a lawyer at the firm of Craft, Fr ...

(born 1965), American author and attorney *

Harold Rubin Harold Rubin (13 May 1932 – 1 April 2020) was a South African-born Israeli artist and free jazz clarinetist. Life and career Rubin was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 13 May 1932. He attended the Jeppe High School for Boys and received ...

, South African and Israeli artist and jazz clarinetist * Harry Rubin (virologist) (1926–2020), American virologist and cancer researcher * Harry M. Rubin (born 1952), American business executive *

Ian Rubin Ian Rubin (born 17 April 1973) is a former Russia international rugby league footballer who played as a forward in the 1990s and 2000s. He played the majority of his professional career in the National Rugby League for the Sydney Roosters and t ...

, Ukraine-born Australian rugby league footballer * Idan Rubin, Israeli football (soccer) player * Ira Rubin (''c.'' 1930–2013), American bridge player * Irv Rubin (1946–2002), Canadian-born Kahanist * Isaak Illich Rubin (1886–1937), Soviet economist and Marxist theorist. *

James Rubin James Phillip Rubin (born March 28, 1960) is an American former diplomat and journalist who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997–2000. He wrote a regular column on foreign aff ...

(born 1960), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1997–2000 * James H. Rubin, art historian, New York City *

Jay Rubin Jay Rubin (born 1941) is an American academic and translator. He is one of the main translators of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami into English. He has also written a guide to Japanese, ''Making Sense of Japanese'' (originally t ...

* Jean E. Rubin (1926–2002), American mathematician *

Jennifer Rubin (actress) Jennifer Collene Rubin is an American actress, former model and currently working as a writer/producer/director. A competitive swimmer during her youth, Rubin was discovered by the Ford Modeling Agency and went on to model for Calvin Klein and be ...

, American film and television actress * Jennifer Rubin (journalist), blogger at the ''Washington Post'' *

Jerry Rubin Jerry Clyde Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1980s, he became a successful businessman. He is known for being one of the ...

, American political activist *

Karl Rubin Karl Cooper Rubin (born January 27, 1956) is an American mathematician at University of California, Irvine as Thorp Professor of Mathematics. Between 1997 and 2006, he was a professor at Stanford, and before that worked at Ohio State University ...

, American mathematician *

Kathleen Rubins Kathleen Hallisey Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut. She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016 ...

(born 1978), American microbiologist and NASA astronaut * Lillian B. Rubin (1924–2014), American sociologist and writer *

Lisa Rubin Lisa Rubin (born 12 November 1977) is a Canadian theatre director. She lives in Montreal, Canada and since 2014 she is the Artistic and Executive Director of Segal Centre for Performing Arts. Biography Rubin made her professional directorial de ...

(born 1977), Canadian theatre director * Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1923–2013), Southern literature scholar and publisher * Marcel Rubin (1905–1995), Austrian composer * Meyer Rubin (1924–2020), American geologist *

Michael Rubin Michael Rubin (born 1971) is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He previously worked as an official at the Pentagon, where he dealt with issues relating to the Middle East, and as political adviser to the Coalition Provis ...

, American scholar and commentator on Middle Eastern history and politics * Miri Rubin, British medievalist * Noah Rubin (born 1996), American tennis player *

Philip Rubin Philip E. Rubin (born May 22, 1949) is an American cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator known for raising the visibility of behavioral and cognitive science, neuroscience, and ethical issues related to science, techn ...

(born 1949), American cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator *

Reuven Rubin Reuven Rubin ( he, ראובן רובין; November 13, 1893 – October 13, 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Biography Rubin Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galaţi to a poor Rom ...

(1893–1974), Israeli painter *

Richard Rubin (TV personality) Richard Rubin (born April 8, 1983) is an American television personality and entertainer best known for starring on the first season of the Ashton Kutcher-produced reality TV series ''Beauty and the Geek'', as well as for his work in Latin Americ ...

, American TV personality *

Rick Rubin Frederick Jay Rubin (; born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer. He is the co-founder (alongside Russell Simmons) of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records. Rubin helped popula ...

, American record producer and record label owner * Ron Rubin (disambiguation) *

Robert Rubin Robert Edward Rubin (born August 29, 1938) is an American retired banking executive, lawyer, and former government official. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration. Before his government ...

(born 1938), U.S. Treasury Secretary, 1995–1999 *

Sabine Rubin Sabine Rubin is a French politician representing la France Insoumise. She was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, becoming the Member of Parliament for the 9th constituency of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. See als ...

(born 1960), French politician * Samuel M. Rubin ("Sam the Popcorn Man", 1918–2004), American entrepreneur credited with the mass introduction of popcorn machines to cinemas * Shelley Rubin, chairman and CEO of the Jewish Defense League *Sherry Rubin, born

Sherry Arnstein Sherry Phyllis Arnstein, (née Rubin) (11 January 1930 – 19 January 1997) was the author of the highly influential journal article "A Ladder of Citizen Participation". Working as a special assistant to the assistant secretary at the U.S. Depa ...

(1930–1997), American public servant, author of influential papers in participatory decision making *

Theodore Isaac Rubin Theodore Isaac Rubin (April 11, 1923 – February 16, 2019) was an American psychiatrist and author. Rubin is a past president of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Karen Horney Institute for Psychoanalysis. He lived in New York C ...

(1923–2019), American psychiatrist and author * Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American *

Uri Rubin Uri Rubin ( he, אורי רובין; 1944 – 26 October 2021) was an Israeli academic who was a professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. His areas of research were early Islam (with special emphasis on t ...

, professor of Arabic and Islamic literature at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

Vera Rubin Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by study ...

(1928–2016), American astronomer * Yoram Rubin, bodyguard of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin

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