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
  • Ruby Hale, a recurring character in MARVEL's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. played by Dove Cameron
  • 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 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, 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 potato in the British animated series Small Potatoes
  • Ruby, an anthro mouse in the British children's series Big & Small
  • Ruby, a character portrayed by Amrita Singh in the 1985 Indian film Mard
  • Ruby, a character portrayed by Kareena Kapoor in the 2012 Indian film Agent Vinod
  • Ruby, a character in The Land Before Time

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
  • Ruby (Jennie album), 2025
  • 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 Boyzone, from the album Brother
  • "Ruby", a song by Camille, from the album Le Sac des Filles
  • "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, from the album Regional At Best
  • "Ruby", a song by Woozi
  • "Ruby, My Dear", a song by Thelonious Monk
  • "Ruby" (루비), a song by Fin.K.L, from the album Blue Rain

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 (Egyptian singer)
  • 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

  • , several vessels of the Royal Navy
  • , several paddle steamers
  • , a converted yacht in service with the US Navy
  • , 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

  • 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)