title: Ruffin (name)
text: # 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
  