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This article is about the nickname. For the unincorporated community, see Rube, Wisconsin.
A rube is a country bumpkin or an inexperienced, unsophisticated person.
Rube is also a nickname, often, but not necessarily of Reuben or Ruben.
Arts and entertainment
- Frank Beard (musician) (born 1949), drummer of the American rock band ZZ Top
- Rube Bloom (1902-1976), Jewish American songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, vocalist and writer
- Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor
- Rubin Lacey (1902-1969), American country blues musician, singer and songwriter
Sports
Baseball
- Rube Benton (1890-1937), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Bressler (1894-1966), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Currie (1898-1966), American baseball pitcher and manager in the Negro leagues
- Rube DeGroff (1879-1955), American Major League Baseball player
- George "Rube" Deneau (c. 1879-1926), Canadian minor league baseball player, manager and promoter
- Rube Dessau (1883-1952), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Ehrhardt (1894-1980), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Ellis (1885-1838), American Major League Baseball player
- Rube Fischer (1916-1997), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Foster (1879–1930), American baseball player, manager, and pioneer executive in the Negro leagues, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Rube Foster (AL pitcher) (1888-1976), American Major League Baseball player
- Rube Geyer (1884-1962), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Kisinger (1876-1941), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Kroh (1886-1944), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Lutzke (1897-1938), American Major League Baseball player
- Rube Manning (1883-1930), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Marquard (1886-1980), American Major League Baseball pitcher, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Rube Marshall (1890-1980), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Melton (1917-1971), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Novotney (1924-1987), American Major League Baseball player in 1949
- Rube Oldring (1884-1961), American Major League Baseball player
- Rube Parnham (1894-1963), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Peters (1885-1965), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Schauer (1891-1957), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Sellers (1881-1952), American Major League Baseball player in 1910
- Rube Vickers (1878-1958), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Vinson (1879-1951), American Major League Baseball player
- Rube Waddell (1876-1914), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Walberg (1896-1978), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Rube Walker (1926-1992), American Major League Baseball catcher and pitching coach
- Rube Ward (1879-1945), American Major League Baseball player in 1902
- Rube Yarrison (1896-1977), American Major League Baseball pitcher
Other
- Rube Barker, American college football player and track athlete in the 1910s
- Rube Bjorkman (born 1929), former collegiate ice hockey head coach
- Rube Brandow (1898–1932), Canadian professional ice hockey player and college coach
- Rube Ferns (1873-1952), American boxer, world welterweight champion in 1900 and 1901
- Rube Lautenschlager (1915–1992), American college and professional basketball player
- Rube Ludwig (c. 1917-?), Canadian football player
- Rube McCray (1904-1972), head football, men's basketball, and baseball coach and athletic director at the College of William & Mary
- Rube Ursella (1890-1980), American football player-coach who played during the early years of the National Football League
- Reuben Charles Warnes (1875-1961), British boxer
Outlaws
- Rube Burrow (1854-1890), American Old West train robber and outlaw
See also
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