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A ruby is a red gemstone.

Ruby may also refer to:

Places

• Ruby, Alaska
• Ruby, Arizona
• Ruby, Copiah County, Mississippi
• Ruby, Leflore County, Mississippi
• Ruby, Nebraska
• Ruby, New York
• Ruby, South Carolina
• Ruby, United States Virgin Islands
• Ruby, Virginia
• Ruby, Washington, a ghost town
• Ruby, Wisconsin, a town
  • Ruby (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Ruby Beach, Washington
• Ruby Canyon, on the Colorado-Utah border
• Ruby Creek (disambiguation)
• Ruby Falls, an underground waterfall within Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
• Ruby Mountain, a stratovolcano in British Columbia, Canada
• Ruby Mountains, a mountain range in Nevada
  • Ruby Dome, the highest peak of the Ruby Mountains
• Ruby Ridge, Idaho, site of a violent confrontation and siege
• Ruby Valley, Nevada
• Ruby City (disambiguation), several US ghost towns

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Ruby Allen, EastEnders character played by Louisa Lytton
• Ruby Buckton, Home and Away character played by Rebecca Breeds
• Ruby Crescent, an O-Parts Hunter character
• Ruby Dennis, the protagonist of the film Dear Mr. Wonderful
• Ruby Gillman, the main character of 2023 animated fantasy film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
• Ruby Heart, protagonist of Marvel vs. Capcom 2
• Ruby Hoshino, Oshi no Ko; see List of Oshi no Ko characters
• Ruby Kurosawa, a fictional character from the mixed-media project Love Live! Sunshine!!
• Ruby Moon, a character from Cardcaptor Sakura manga and anime
• Ruby Ramirez, a character from Treehouse's Rusty Rivets
• Ruby Marshall, a character from the preschool TV series Dot.
• Ruby Rhod, a character (played by Tucker) in the late 1990s film The Fifth Element
• Ruby Rose (RWBY character), the protagonist of the Japanese animated webseries RWBY
• Ruby Thewes, a character in the novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and in the film
• Ruby Trollman, a Trollz character
• Ruby, one of the identical twins in the Jacqueline Wilson novel Double Act
• Ruby (Jewelpet)
• Ruby (Pokémon)
• Ruby (Once Upon a Time) (better known as Red Riding Hood), a character from the ABC television drama Once Upon a Time
• Ruby (Steven Universe)
• Ruby (Supernatural)
• Ruby (The Land Before Time)
• Ruby, an According to Jim character
• Ruby, a promotional character created by ATI Technologies
• Ruby, an anthro rabbit in the Max & Ruby book and television series
• Ruby, the protagonist of the radio drama Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe
• Ruby, the protagonist of the Canadian TV series Ruby Gloom
• Ruby, a fictional potato in the British animated series Small Potatoes
• Ruby, an anthro mouse in the British children's series Big & Small
• Ruby, a fictional character portrayed by Amrita Singh in the 1985 Indian film Mard

Films

• Ruby (1977 film), a supernatural horror
• Ruby (1992 film), about Jack Ruby

Games

• Pokémon Ruby, released in 2002 for Japan and 2003 internationally
• Pokémon Omega Ruby, a remake of Pokémon Ruby

Television

• Ruby (talk show), a British late night talk show
• Ruby (2008 TV series), a Style Network program
• Ruby (2012 TV series), an Arab dramatic series
• Ruby Gallagher, a character of the ABC Family TV series Ruby & The Rockits
• The Ruby, the diner in Canadian series Corner Gas, as well as the film and animated versions

Literature

• Ruby (novel), a 1994 novel by V. C. Andrews

Music

Albums

• Ruby (The Killjoys album), 1990
• Ruby (Macy Gray album), 2018
• Ruby (Ruby album), 1976
• Ruby (Sirsy album), 2004
• Ruby (Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and Australian Art Orchestra album), 2005
• The Ruby, an EP by April, 2018

Songs

• "Ruby" (Ruby Gentry theme), from the 1952 film Ruby Gentry, also performed by Ray Charles in 1960
• "Ruby" (Kaiser Chiefs song), by Kaiser Chiefs, from the album Yours Truly, Angry Mob
• "Ruby", a song by Janis Ian, from the album Revenge
• "Ruby", a song by Kristin Hersh, from the album Sunny Border Blue
• "Ruby", a song by Queenadreena, from the album Djin
• "Ruby", a song by Twenty One Pilots
• "Ruby", a song by Boyzone, from the album Brother
• "Ruby", a song by Camille, from the album Le Sac des Filles
• "Ruby, My Dear", a song by Thelonious Monk

Artists and record labels

• Ruby (British band), an alternative group formed in 1994
• Ruby & the Romantics, an American R&B group
• Ruby Records, a record label
• Ruby (American band), an American rock band featuring Tom Fogerty
• Ruby (Egyptian singer) (born 1981), singer and actress
• Ruby, a performer in the English hip pop quintet KING
• Ruby Frost, New Zealand singer

People

• Ruby (given name)
• Ruby (surname)
• Ruby (actress) (born 1972), American pornographic actress

Programming

• Ruby (hardware description language)
• Ruby (programming language)
• Ruby, an early development name for Visual Basic (classic)
• Ruby MRI, the C reference implementation of the Ruby language

Ships

• HMS Ruby, several vessels of the Royal Navy
• PS Ruby, several paddle steamers
• USS Ruby (PY-21), a converted yacht in service with the US Navy
• Ruby (ship), several merchant ships

Other uses

• Ruby (annotation), small-print pronunciation guide for logographic writing
• Ruby (car), an inter-war French manufacturer of light cars and proprietary engines
• Ruby (typography), the British English form of agate-size type
• Ruby (color), a color based on that of the gemstone
• Ruby chocolate
• Ruby (mango), a deep-red mango fruit
• 'Ruby Red' and 'Star Ruby', varieties of grapefruit
• Ruby (elephant)
• Rubies (Super Fours), a women's cricket team that competed in the Super Fours
• Project Ruby, a 1946 joint Anglo-American program to test a range of bunker-buster bombs
• Brazilian ruby, Clytolaema rubricauda, a species of hummingbird
• Little Ruby, a common name of Alternanthera brasiliana var. villosa in the amaranth family
• Ruby Corp., the parent company of the Ashley Madison online dating service
• Ruby Leaf, a common name of Alternanthera brasiliana
• J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital, or Ruby, in Morgantown, West Virginia
• Ruby Tuesday (restaurant), an international restaurant chain
• List of storms named Ruby

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Ruby
• All pages with titles containing Ruby
• Rubygate, a sex scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi
• Ruby pistol
• Rubi (disambiguation)
• Rubin (disambiguation)
• Rubis (rocket), a rocket system
• RWBY, an animated web series
• Ruby Rose (disambiguation)