Rust (surname)

Rust is an English surname. It comes from the Old English "rust" which meant "red" and was originally used as a nickname for those with red hair.

People

 * Albert Rust (1818–1870), American politician
 * Albert Rust (footballer) (born 1953), French footballer
 * Alfred Rust (1900–1983), German archaeologist and prehistorian
 * Annie Coolidge Rust, 19th-century American educator
 * Bernhard Rust (1883–1945), Minister of Education in Nazi Germany
 * Bryan Rust (born 1992), American ice hockey player
 * Elizabeth Lownes Rust (1835–1899), American philanthropist, humanitarian, Christian missionary
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796), German violinist and composer
 * Giacomo Rust (1741–1786), Italian composer
 * John Rust (born 1955), American economist
 * Mathias Rust (born 1968), German pilot who landed on the Red Square in 1987
 * Paul Rust (born 1981), American actor
 * Richard S. Rust (1815–1906), American abolitionist and educator
 * Rod Rust (1928–2018), American football coach
 * Wilhelm Karl Rust (1787–1855), German pianist
 * Yvonne Rust (1922 – 2002), New Zealand potter