Ruffin (name)

Ruffin is a name.

Family name

 * Amber Ruffin, comedian and writer
 * Bruce Ruffin, American baseball pitcher
 * Bruce Ruffin, reggae singer
 * Chance Ruffin, American baseball pitcher
 * David Ruffin (1941–1991), American singer, one of the lead singers with The Temptations
 * Edmund Ruffin (1794–1865), American agricultural writer and Confederate firebrand
 * François Amable Ruffin, French general
 * François Ruffin, French journalist, activist, and politician
 * George Lewis Ruffin, first African-American graduate of Harvard University
 * Jimmy Ruffin (1936–2014), American singer
 * Joe Ruffin, victim in the Jenkins County, Georgia, riot of 1919
 * Josephine Ruffin, American civil rights leader
 * Michael Ruffin, American basketball player
 * Oxblood Ruffin, Canadian hacker, member of Cult of the Dead Cow and Hacktivismo
 * Phil Ruffin, American businessman
 * Saint Ruffin, legendary Anglo-Saxon saint
 * Thomas Ruffin (1787–1870), American jurist, Chief Justice of North Carolina Supreme Court

Given name

 * Harrison Ruffin Tyler (born 1928), American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
 * Ruffin McNeill (born 1958), American football coach and player