Ruskin may refer to:

People and fictional characters

Ruskin (surname) Ruskin, also Russkin, Russkina, Ruskina, is a surname can be of English, Scottish, French, Danish, German or Jewish origin which occurs especially in Russia, United States and some Asian countries. People * Effie Ruskin (1828–1897), Scottish art ...

, a list of people and fictional characters *

Ruskin (given name) Ruskin is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Ruskin Bond (born 1934), Indian author of British descent * Ruskin Fernando (1916–1974), Ceylonese businessman and politician * Ruskin Mark (born 1957), Trinidadian cricketer * Ruskin Spea ...

, a list of people

Places

United States

Ruskin, Florida Ruskin is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The area was part of the chiefdom of the Uzita at the time of the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1539. The community was founded August 7, 1908, ...

, a census-designated place *

Ruskin, Georgia Ruskin is an unincorporated community in Ware County, Georgia, United States. It lies between Waycross and Manor on U.S. Route 84. The community is part of the Waycross Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Ruskin was established in the 1890s ...

, an unincorporated community *

Ruskin, Minnesota Ruskin is an unincorporated community in Rice County, Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and e ...

. an unincorporated community *

Ruskin, Nebraska Ruskin is a village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 123 at the 2010 census. History Ruskin was established in 1887 when the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. It was named after J ...

, a village *

Ruskin Colony The Ruskin Colony (or Ruskin Commonwealth Association) was a utopian socialist colony in the southern US at the end of the 19th century. It was located near Tennessee City in Dickson County, Tennessee from 1894 to 1896. The colony moved to a ...

, a utopian socialist colony in Dickson County, Tennessee, from 1894 to 1899 * Mount Ruskin, California

Elsewhere

Ruskin, British Columbia Ruskin is a rural, naturally-treed community, about east of Vancouver on the north shore of the Fraser River. It was named around 1900 after the English art critic, essayist, and prominent social thinker John Ruskin. Ruskin is one of the histor ...

, Canada, a community **

Ruskin Dam and Powerhouse Ruskin Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Stave River in Ruskin, British Columbia, Canada. The dam was completed in 1930 for the primary purpose of hydroelectric power generation. The dam created Hayward Lake, which supplies water to a 105 MW p ...

Ruskin, Iran Ruzkin (, also Romanized as Rūzkīn; also known as Rūkīn and Rūskīn) is a village in Sarduiyeh Rural District, Sarduiyeh District, Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also kno ...

, a village in Kerman Province

Education

Anglia Ruskin University Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public research university in the region of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins date back to the Cambridge School of Art (CSA), founded by William John Beamont, a Fellow of Trinity College at the Unive ...

, Cambridge, England *

Ruskin College, Oxford Ruskin College, originally known as Ruskin Hall, Oxford, is a higher education institution and part of the University of West London, in Oxford, England. It is not a college of Oxford University. Named after the essayist, art and social cr ...

, an adult education college named after John Ruskin *

Ruskin School of Art The Ruskin School of Art is the Department of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, England. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division. History The Ruskin School of Art grew out the Oxford School of Art, which was founded in 1865 and later ...

, Oxford University, United Kingdom *

Ruskin Colleges The Ruskin Colleges were a group of American colleges founded in the early 20th century by the socialist philanthropist Walter Vrooman, the college administrator George McAnelly Miller, and others, in the same spirit as the British Ruskin College ...

, a group of American colleges named after John Ruskin *

John Ruskin College John Ruskin College is a further education college in South Croydon offering full-time vocational courses and apprenticeships as well as part-time courses for adults. In 2019, following a merger with ''East Surrey College'' incorporating ''Rei ...

, a further education college in South Croydon, Greater London *

Ruskin Hall Ruskin Hall is a residence hall at the University of Pittsburgh and a contributing property to the Schenley Farms Historic district (United States), National Historic District. Constructed in 1921–22 by H. L. Stevens & Company, with an annex ...

, a residence hall at the University of Pittsburgh and a National Historic Place *

Ruskin High School (disambiguation) Ruskin High School may refer to: * Ruskin High School, Crewe, a secondary school in Crewe, Cheshire, England * Ruskin High School (Kansas City, Missouri), United States See also *John Ruskin School John Ruskin School (JRS) is an 11–16 schoo ...

John Ruskin School John Ruskin School (JRS) is an 11–16 school on Lake Road in Coniston, Cumbria. The school is part of the Rural Academy, a group of nine small schools in Cumbria which was awarded Technology College status in 2004, and a member of the South La ...

, Coniston, Cumbria, England *

The Ruskin, Lancaster The Ruskin – Library, Museum and Research Centre is an archive, museum, and research centre at Lancaster University, in the north of England. The Director of The Ruskin is Professor Sandra Kemp. Prior to 2019, The Ruskin – Library, Museum ...

, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, an archive, museum and research centre

Other uses

Ruskin Gallery The Ruskin Gallery is a gallery within the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield, England. It houses a collection of minerals, paintings, ornithological prints, drawings, manuscripts and architectural plaster casts assembled by John Ruskin. It f ...

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Ruskin Galleries The Ruskin Galleries was a private art gallery located in what is now Chamberlain Square in Birmingham, England between 1925 and 1940. It provided a venue for the exhibition of modern art at a time when Birmingham's other major artistic institu ...

, Birmingham, England, a private art gallery from 1925 to 1940 *

Ruskin Museum The Ruskin Museum is a small local museum in Coniston, Cumbria, northern England. It was established in 1901 by W. G. Collingwood, an artist and antiquarian who had worked as secretary to art critic John Ruskin. The museum is both a memorial ...

, Coniston, Cumbria, England *

Ruskin Pottery The Ruskin Pottery was an English art pottery studio founded in 1898 by Edward R. Taylor, the first principal of both the Lincoln School of Art and the Birmingham School of Art, to be run by his son, William Howson Taylor, formerly a studen ...

, an English pottery studio in operation between 1898 and 1935 * Ruskin Drive, a road in

Altoona, Pennsylvania Altoona ( ) is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Altoona Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area, w ...

, United States