Rubin is both a surname and a given name. Rubins is a Latvian-language name. It derives from the biblical name Reuben as a Jewish name. The choice is also influenced by the word rubin meaning "ruby," in some languages.[1]
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Rubin Carter (1937–2014), nicknamed "The Hurricane," American boxer who was imprisoned and later absolved
- Rubin Goldmark (1872–1936), American composer, pianist and educator
- Rubin Kantorovich, candidate in the 1997 Canadian federal election
- Rubin Patiția (1841–1918), Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian lawyer and political activist
Surname
- Albert Rubin (1887–1956), Bulgarian-born Jewish artist
- Alvin Benjamin Rubin (1920–1991), American judge
- Anatoly Rubin, Israeli holocaust survivor from Belarus
- Andy Rubin, American software engineer
- Andrew Rubin (1946–2015), American actor
- Arthur Rubin (born 1956), American mathematician
- Avi Rubin, expert on electronic voting security
- Barbara Rubin (1945–1980), American filmmaker and performance artist
- Barry Rubin (1950–2014), Israeli academic
- Barry Rubin (American football) (born 1957), American football player and coach
- Ben Rubin (disambiguation), several people
- Benny Rubin (1899–1986), American comedian and film actor
- Ben-Zion Rubin (b. 1939), Israeli politician
- Bernard Rubin (1896–1936), Australian racing driver and pilot
- Bernard D. Rubin (1893–1948), American businessman
- Bruce Joel Rubin (born 1943), Oscar-winning screenwriter
- Carl Rubin (architect) (1899–1955), Israeli architect
- Carl Bernard Rubin (1920–1995), American judge
- Carol Rubin (1945–2001), American film producer
- Chanda Rubin (born 1976), American professional tennis player
- Charles T. Rubin, political science professor
- Danny Rubin, American screenwriter and playwright
- Danny Rubin (basketball), American-Israeli basketball player
- Daniel Rubin, Swiss ice hockey player
- Daphne Rubin-Vega (born 1969), American dance music singer and actress
- Dave Rubin (born 1976), American comedian, talk show host and television personality
- Dina Rubina (b. 1953), Russian-Israeli writer
- Donald Rubin, Professor of Statistics
- Donna Rubin (born 1959), American tennis player
- Eduard Rubin, Swiss Army, inventor of the first jacketed rifle bullets (1882) and co-inventor of the Schmidt–Rubin rifle
- Edgar John Rubin (1886–1951), Danish psychologist
- Edward Rubin, American biologist
- Ella Rubin (born 2001), American actress
- Enriqueta González Rubín (1832–1877), Spanish writer and journalist
- Eric J. Rubin, Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Eric S. Rubin (born 1961), American diplomat and ambassador
- Erik Rubín (born 1971), Mexican singer and actor
- Gayle Rubin (born 1949), American cultural anthropologist
- Gerald M. Rubin, American geneticist
- Gretchen Rubin (born 1965), American author and attorney
- Hanna Rubina, birth name of Hanna Rovina, Russian-Israeli actress
- Harold Rubin, South African and Israeli artist and jazz clarinetist
- Harry Rubin (virologist) (1926–2020), American virologist and cancer researcher
- Harry M. Rubin (born 1952), American business executive
- Ian Rubin, Ukraine-born Australian rugby league footballer
- Idan Rubin, Israeli football (soccer) player
- Ilan Rubin, American musician
- Ira Rubin (c. 1930–2013), American bridge player
- Irv Rubin (1946–2002), Canadian-born Kahanist
- Isaak Illich Rubin (1886–1937), Soviet economist and Marxist theorist
- James Rubin (born 1960), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1997–2000
- James H. Rubin, art historian, New York City
- Jason Rubin, American video game director
- Jay Rubin (b. 1941), American translator and Japanologist
- Jean E. Rubin (1926–2002), American mathematician
- Jennifer Rubin (actress), American film and television actress
- Jennifer Rubin (journalist), blogger at The Washington Post
- Jerry Rubin, American political activist
- Jon Rubin, American artist
- Judith Young (nee Rubin, 1952–2014), American astronomer
- Julie Rubin, American judge
- Karen Rubin, American entrepreneur
- Karl Rubin (b. 1956), American mathematician
- Kathleen Rubins (born 1978), American microbiologist and NASA astronaut
- Kevin Rubin, Israeli actor and YouTuber
- Lenny Rubin, Swiss handball player
- Leslie Rubin, South African senator
- Lillian B. Rubin (1924–2014), American sociologist and writer
- Lisa Rubin (born 1977), Canadian theatre director
- Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1923–2013), American literature scholar and publisher
- Lynsey de Paul, born Lyndsey Monckton Rubin, English singer-songwriter
- Marcel Rubin (1905–1995), Austrian composer
- Mark Rubin (musician), American musician
- Meyer Rubin (1924–2020), American geologist
- Michael Rubin (historian), American scholar and commentator on Middle Eastern history and politics
- Michael Rubin (businessman), American businessman
- Miri Rubin, British medievalist
- Monika Rubin, Danish politician
- Nancy Rubin Stuart, American author and journalist
- Niklas Rubin, Swedish ice hockey player
- Noah Rubin (tennis) (born 1996), American tennis player
- Noah Rubin (music executive), American music executive
- Paul Rubin (1942–2024), American economist
- Pauline Rubin (footballer) (b. 1994), Swedish footballer
- Paula Eliasoph (1895–1983), born as Pauline Rubin, American painter, printmaker, poet, illustrator
- Philip Rubin (born 1949), American cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator
- Pinhas Rubin, Israeli lawyer
- Reuven Rubin (1893–1974), Israeli painter
- Richard Rubin (writer) (born 1967), American writer
- Richard Rubin (TV personality) (born 1983), American television personality
- Rick Rubin, American record producer and record label owner
- Robert Rubin (born 1938), U.S. Treasury Secretary, 1995–1999
- Robert Joshua Rubin (1926–2008), American mathematician
- Ron Rubin (voice actor) (born 1959), Canadian voice actor
- Ron Rubin (bridge) (born 1948), American bridge player
- Ron Robin, Israeli scholar
- Rubio Rubin, Guatemalan footballer
- Sabine Rubin (born 1960), French politician
- Samuel M. Rubin ("Sam the Popcorn Man", 1918–2004), American entrepreneur
- Shelley Rubin, chairman and CEO of the Jewish Defense League
- Sherry Rubin, born Sherry Arnstein (1930–1997), American public servant
- Solomon Rubin, Hebrew author
- Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923–2019), American psychiatrist and author
- Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American Army Corporal
- Uri Rubin, professor of Arabic and Islamic literature
- Vanessa Rubin, American jazz vocalist
- Vera Rubin (1928–2016), American astronomer
- Vera D. Rubin (1911–1985), American anthropologist
- Władysław Rubin, Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Yoram Rubin, bodyguard of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin
- Zahara Rubin, Israeli sculptor, painter and artist
See also
- Ruben (surname), a list of people
- Rabin
- Reuben (disambiguation)
- Rubina
- Rubini
- Rubino
- Rubin Design Bureau
References
- ^ "Rubin", in Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press
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