Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges

female, 55 years old
African American, African Americans' rights activist, School desegregation pioneer, NAACP, The Problem We All Live With, Ruby Nell Bridges
Ruby Bridges Hall (born Ruby Nell Bridges September 8, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi) moved with her parents to New Orleans, Louisiana at the age...
Ruby Braff

Ruby Braff

male, deceased (2003)
Mainstream jazz cornetist, Dixieland revivalist cornetist, trumpeter, Swing cornetist, Swing trumpeter, American jazz trumpeter
Reuben "Ruby" Braff (March 16, 1927 - February 9, 2003) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. Braff was born in Boston. He was renowned for...
Ruby Payne-Scott

Ruby Payne-Scott

female, deceased (1981)
physicist, Australian, Radio Astronomy, Ruby Violet Payne-Scott, radiophysics
Ruby Violet Payne-Scott (later Hall) (May 28 1912 - May 25 1981) was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy, and is believed to...

Ruby Nash Curtis

female
American, At&t, From Akron, Ohio, rhythm and blues, one-hit wonder, Kapp Records…Ruby & the Romantics
Ruby Nash Curtis (born 12 November 1939) is an American singer who led the rhythm and blues group Ruby & The Romantics. Born in Akron, Ohio Nash...

Ruby McCollum

female
capital punishment, death sentence, The Trial of Ruby McCollum, Pittsburgh Courier, paramour rights
In 1952, Ruby McCollum, a black woman, shot and killed her white lover, prominent Live Oak, Florida, physician C. Leroy Adams. Her subsequent...

Ruby Ross Wood

female
Cape Cod, Ruby Ross Pope Goodnow Wood, The Delineator, The House in Good Taste, Alfred Vanderbilt, Rodman Wanamaker
Ruby Ross Pope Goodnow Wood (26 October 1881 - 18 February 1950) was a prominent New York interior decorator and the owner of Ruby Ross Wood, Inc.,...
Ruby Dandridge

Ruby Dandridge

female, deceased (1987)
Ruby Jean Butler, Cleveland, Mexican, Native American, wichita, Jamaican
Ruby Dandridge (1 March 1899 in Wichita, Kansas - 17 October, 1987 in Los Angeles, California), born Ruby Jean Butler, was an African American...
Ruby Turner

Ruby Turner

female, 51 years old
singer, British, Jamaican, soul music, soul, actress
Ruby Turner (born June 22, 1958 in Jamaica) is a British soul singer and actress.
Ruby Langford Ginibi

Ruby Langford Ginibi

female, 75 years old
novelist, Australian Human Rights Award, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Australian women writer, Sydney Writers' Festival, canberra
Ruby Langford Ginibi (born 1934 at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on the NSW north coast), is a Bundjalung woman, an acclaimed author and historian....
Ruby Elzy

Ruby Elzy

female, deceased (1943)
My Man's Gone Now, Gershwin Memorial Concert, Opera Singer, hollywood bowl, aria, porgy and bess
Ruby Elzy (February 20, 1908 - June 26, 1943), was a pioneer African American operatic soprano who created the role of Serena in George Gershwin's...