- Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax (born Ruby Wachs on April 19, 1953) is an American comedienne who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s. - Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein, who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was a Dallas businessman and nightclub owner. He was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, two days after Oswald's arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He successfully appealed his conviction and sentence of death. As a date for his new trial was being set, he took ill and died. - Clayton Ruby
Clayton Charles Ruby, CM, QC, LL.M, LL.B, BA is a Canadian lawyer, specializing in constitutional and criminal law and civil rights. He is one of the most famous lawyers in Canada at present, having served as a defence lawyer in a number of high-profile cases. Ruby received a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) from York University in 1963. He earned an Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B) from the University of Toronto in 1969, … - Harry Ruby
Harry Ruby (October 29 1895 - February 23 1974) was an American songwriter and screenwriter. Born in New York, Ruby failed in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player. Touring the vaudeville circuit as a pianist with the Bootblack Trio and the Messenger Boys Trio he met his long-time partner Bert Kalmar. Together, Ruby and Kalmar formed a successful songwriting team until the latter's death in 1947, … - Texas Ruby
Texas Ruby, born Ruby Agnes Owens (June 4, 1910 (some sources say 1907 or 1908) - March 29 1963) in Wise County, Texas was a pioneering country music female vocalist of the 1930s through the early 1960s. The husky voice star was something of a cross between Sophie Tucker (whom she was often compared to) and Dale Evans and with her husband, … - Anthony Ruby
Anthony Ruby (born Cork City, Ireland, 1977) is an Irish artist. He studied Fine Arts at Crawford College of Art and Design and completed his BA in 1999. He has won numerous awards including the RTÉ/Bord Scannan na hEireann/Arts Counclil Grant in 2001. His work, influenced by Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Diego Rivera, Goya, and José Clemente Orozco, have sold to private and public collectors such as University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology. - Lois Ruby
Lois Ruby is the author of several children's and young adult books, including some historical fiction. - Lloyd Ruby
Lloyd Ruby (Born January 12, 1928 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is a retired American racecar driver. Ruby raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1958-1977 seasons, with 177 career starts, including the every Indianapolis 500 race during 1960-1977. He finished in the top ten 88 times, with 7 victories. His best Indy finish was 3rd in 1964. In 1966 he led the Indy 500 for 68 laps. - Jay Ruby
Jay Ruby (1935-) is an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University until his recent retirement. He received his B.A. in History (1960) and Ph.D. in Anthropology (1969) from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a leader in the field of visual anthropology. - Ruby
Rania Hussein, is an Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame with her debut single "Enta Aref Leih" ("Do You Know Why?"). Egyptian director and producer, Sherif Sabri, is credited for launching her career. She is considered to be one of the most talked about female artists in Egypt. - Ruby
Ruby (born Lesley Rankine) is a UK vocalist, whose repertory of styles expand across electronic, trip hop, noise, and Industrial. Her pseudonym comes from her maternal grandmother, who was also called Ruby. She began her music career as frontwoman to UK noise group Silverfish, leaving the group, based in London, after the release of their 1993 LP "Organ Fan" and departing for Seattle. There she joined forces with producer Mark Walk, … - Ruby
is the main protagonist of The Fourth Chapter and recurring character of the Battle Frontier arcs of the "Pokémon Adventures" manga. He first appears in Volume 15. Originally from the Johto region, he moved with his mother to Hoenn to live closer to his father Norman, the Gym Leader of Petalburg City. Despite being a Gym Leader's son, Ruby hates battling and prefers Pokémon Contests. - David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson (born 1979 in Copenhagen) is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wikis. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm 37signals. In 1999 David founded and built an online gaming news website and community called Daily Rush, which he ran until 2001. - Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas is a computer programmer and author/editor. He has written about Ruby. Dave and partner Andy Hunt wrote the The Pragmatic Programmer and run The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers. Dave Thomas lives in Dallas, Texas. He moved to the United States from England in 1994. Dave has also coined the phrase 'Code Kata'. - Ruby Lin
Ruby Lin (born 27 January 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Chinese TV drama and film actress and singer from Taiwan. Her English name was chosen by herself, after her mother's love of the jewel. At first, Ruby Lin made her debut by TV commercial in Taiwan. In 1996, After several supporting roles in Taiwanese TV drama, Ruby Lin was one of the lead actresses in the popular television series "Princess Returning Pearl" and its sequel, "Princess Returning Pearl" II, … - Sapphire
is a protagonist in the Fourth Chapter and recurring character in the Battle Frontier arcs of the "Pokémon Adventures" manga, first appearing in Volume 15. The daughter of Professor Birch, she is a wild tomboy who usually wore clothing made out of leaves. She eventually encountered Ruby, the son of Petalburg Gym Leader Norman, who was then in the process of running away from his new home in Littleroot Town. While saving Ruby from three Mightyena, Sapphire injured herself. - Yukihiro Matsumoto
is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language. He was born in Osaka prefecture, in western Honshū. According to an interview conducted by "Japan Inc.", he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where he associated himself with research departments dealing with programming languages and compilers. - Ruby Murray
Ruby Murray (b. March 29 1935, Belfast, Northern Ireland - December 17 1996, Torquay, England) was a popular singer. Murray was born on the Donegall Road in south Belfast. Her voice's unique sound was a result of an operation on her throat in early childhood. She toured as a child singer, and first appeared on television at the age of 12. Her first single, "Heartbeat", reached the UK top 5 in 1954. - Why The Lucky Stiff
why the lucky stiff (often known simply as "why" or "_why") is the persona of a prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer programmer known for his work with the Ruby programming language. He, along with Matz and DHH, is a key figure in the Ruby community. - Danny Aiello
Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr. is an Italian-American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including "Once Upon a Time in America", "Ruby", "The Godfather: Part II", "Hudson Hawk", "The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Moonstruck", "Léon: The Professional", "Two Days in the Valley", and "Dinner Rush". He is perhaps most famous for his role in the 1989 Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing". - Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user interfaces more usable. Cooper is sometimes called "the father of Visual Basic", although much of work on Visual Basic was done by Microsoft's internal development group. Cooper was the leading force behind VB 1.0 and pioneered the use of an IDE to create a GUI via wrapped calls to system routines in the API (see Adapter pattern). - David Lindsay
David Lindsay was an Australian explorer. Lindsay was the son of Captain John Scott Lindsay (formerly of Dundee, Scotland), and was born at Goolwa, South Australia. He entered the state government survey department in 1872, and was gazetted as a senior surveyor in March 1875. In 1878 he was appointed surveyor-general for the Northern Territory. In 1882 he resigned from the government service to take up private practice, … - Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn on February 1, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Emmy and Golden Globe award nominated American actress and filmmaker, best known for playing Audrey Horne on the cult TV series "Twin Peaks", for her roles in "Ruby", "Of Mice and Men", "Boxing Helena" and "Rude Awakening", and for portraying actress Elizabeth Taylor in "Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story". - John MacKenzie
John Mackenzie (b. 1932) is a British film director. He directed such films as "Ruby", "The Long Good Friday", "The Fourth Protocol" and "When the Sky Falls". - Mark Walk
Mark Walk is a composer, producer and current member of the band Skinny Puppy. He often works in the electronic and industrial music genres; starting in Wisconsin then working in Chicago, he made his earliest widely heard creations while working as a studio engineer and producer at Invisible Records. A trademark of his earlier sounds are the extensive tom drum programming on projects such as Pigface. - Rosa Guy
Rosa Cuthbert Guy (born September 1, 1925 in Trinidad) was raised in the USA from the age of seven and now lives in New York. She immigrated to Harlem, New York in 1932. Soon after, her parents, Henry and Audrey Cuthbert, died. After, she and her sister went to many foster homes. She quit school at age fourteen and took a job to help support her family. During World War II she joined the American Negro Theatre. She studied theature and writing at the University of New York. - Arliss Howard
Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard on October 18, 1954 in Independence, Missouri) is an American actor, writer and film director, best known for his roles in "Full Metal Jacket" and "Ruby", and for starring in and directing the film "Big Bad Love" (also starring his wife Debra Winger). Howard also was in the film "Til' death do us part", portraying author and attorney Vincent Bugliosi, … - Philip Arnold
Philip Arnold (1829 - 1878) was a confidence trickster from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and the brains behind the legendary diamond hoax of 1872, which fooled people into investing in a phony diamond mining operation. He managed to walk away from the hoax with more than half a million dollars. - Kelly Emberg
Kelly Emberg (born 1959 in Texas), is a former model, best known for her relationship with rock star Rod Stewart. Emberg was at the top of her career when she began dating Stewart in 1983, a highly successful all-American blonde fashion model who appeared in hundreds of print layouts including the Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions, Calvin Klein and Armani in the Eighties. Daughter Ruby was born in 1987, with Stewart ordering their Bel Air mansion filled with pink roses, … - Ted Walsh
Ted Walsh is an amateur jockey turned racehorse trainer, based in Kill, County Kildare, Ireland. He was born and raised in Co. Cork. As a rider, one of his most important wins was on Attitude Adjuster in the 1986 Cheltenham Festival Foxhunter Chase. Walsh also had a good record on Daring Run who won the 1981 and 1982 Aintree Hurdle, was a close third in the 1981 Champion Hurdle and unplaced as favourite in 1982. - Angela Scoular
Angela Scoular is an English actress. She is one of a small group of actors to have appeared in two James Bond films – made by different production companies. Scoular played Buttercup in the unofficial 1967 spoof "Casino Royale" and then made an appearance in the official Bond film series playing Ruby in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Her other film credits include "A Countess From Hong Kong", … - Laura Ortiz
Laura Ortiz born April 27, 1987, is a 5ft 2in actress, who appeared as Ruby, one of the deformed hill people in "The Hills Have Eyes (2006)". She was also the chatty caffeinated cheerleader named Ashley Hall in a television advertisement for T-Mobile. So far, only two T-Mobile ads featuring Ortiz have aired. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia but currently resides in California. - Richard Vincent
Richard Vincent is an English playwright, theatre director and screenwriter. Vincent trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London. His first play, "Off the Bone", was produced at the Courtyard Theatre in 1994. "Real Estate" was a selected play at the 1994 International Playwriting Festival at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon and was produced at the Teatro Colosseo, Rome and developed into a screenplay by Granada Film. - Debra Winsberg
- Sherif Sabri
Sherif Sabri is an Egyptian film, music, and TV producer. He is responsible for bringing the artist Ruby into the limelight by fully producing her debut album as well as writing, producing and directing her movie "Saba' Wara'aat Kutchina". - Theodore Harold Maiman
Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (July 11, 1927 - May 5, 2007) was an American physicist who made the first working laser. Maiman received the Japan Prize in 1987. He was the author of a book titled "The Laser Odyssey". - Emmitt Peters
Emmitt Peters (born 1941 or 1942), known as the "Yukon Fox", is an Alaskan American hunter, fisher, trapper, and dog musher. The last rookie to win the 1,049 mile Iditarod dog sled race (in 1975), he and his lead dogs Nugget and Digger shattered by the previous speed record by almost six days. Peters is an Athabaskan Alaska Native who was born in Ruby, deep in the Alaska Interior. He became a hunter, fisher, and trapper, and grew up around sled dogs. - Barry Clay
Barry Clay is a gold miner from Alaska who in 1998 discovered the largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska on Swift Creek near near Ruby. The nugget, nicknamed "The Alaska Centennial Nugget", weighs 294.1 troy ounces. As of 2007 he continues to mine for gold in the Ruby mining district and operates a mining camp that allows tourst to search for gold on his claims. - John Benbow
John Benbow, English admiral, the son of a tanner in Shrewsbury. He went to sea when very young, and served in the navy as master's mate and master, from 1678 to 1681. When trading to the Mediterranean in 1686 in a ship of his own he beat off a Salé pirate. On the accession of William III, he re-entered the navy as a lieutenant and was rapidly promoted. It is probable that he enjoyed the protection of Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, … - Sam Ruby
Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software projects, and to the standardization of web feeds via his involvement with the Atom web feed standard and the popular Feed Validator web service. He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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