Rufus (Roman cognomen)

Rufus is one of the most common of the ancient Roman cognomina.

List of Rufi

 * 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 (possibly the same as Quintus Curtius Rufus)
 * Faenius Rufus (died 65), Roman senator and praefectus annonae, 55–62 AD
 * Gaius Asinius Rufus (ca 110 – aft. 136), 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 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 (consul 221 BC)
 * Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus (c. 104/3 - 26 BC), 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 (consul 88 BC) (died 88 BC), Roman politician
 * Quintus Tineius Rufus (consul 127) (c. 90 – aft. 132 AD), Roman politician
 * Quintus Tineius Rufus (consul 182), Roman politician
 * Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian of the 1st century|1st or 2nd century
 * Rufus (consul 457), 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