Ruffin (name)
# 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
