title: Ruffian
text: # Ruffian
  
  A ruffian is a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  
  Ruffian may refer to:
  
  * Ruffian (horse) (1972–1975), a famous thoroughbred racehorse
  * Ruffian (film), a 2007 television movie about the racehorse
  * Ruffian Games, a Scottish games developer
  * Ruffian, a chess engine
  * Ruffian 23, Irish sailboat designed by Billy Brown
  * Border Ruffians, pro-Slavery activists from Missouri in the American Civil War
  * The Ruffian on the Stair, a 1964 British play
  * HMS Bellerophon (1786), also known as Billy Ruffian
  * The Ruffians, the major antagonists of the Nintendo game Sin and Punishment
  * British codename of the German X-Geraet, radar system
  * The Ruffian, a 1983 French-Canadian criminal adventure film
  