Reuben
Reuben or Reuven is a Biblical male first name from Hebrew רְאוּבֵן, meaning "behold, a son". In the Bible, Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob.
Variants include Reuvein in Yiddish or as an English variant spelling on the Hebrew original; Rúben in European Portuguese and Icelandic; Rubens in Brazilian Portuguese; Rubén in Spanish and French; Rubèn in Catalan; Ruben in Dutch, German, Italian, Indonesian, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Armenian; and Rupen/'Roupen in Western Armenian.
The form Ruben' can also be a form of the name Robin, itself a variation of the Germanic name Robert, in several Celtic languages. It preserves the "u" sound from the name's first component "hruod".
Mononym
- Ruben I, Prince of Armenia, the first lord of Armenian Cilicia or "Lord of the Mountains" from 1080/1081/1082 to 1095, founder of Rubenid dynasty
- Ruben II, Prince of Armenia, the seventh lord of Armenian Cilicia or "Lord of the Mountains" from 1169 to 1170
- Ruben III, Prince of Armenia, the ninth lord of Armenian Cilicia or "Lord of the Mountains" from 1175 to 1187
- Ruben , Norwegian singer-songwriter Ruben Markussen
- Ruben , Indian film editor Livingston Antony Ruben
Given name
Reuben
- Reuben Agboola, Nigerian football player
- Reuben Bennett, Scottish football player and coach
- Reuben Fatheree II, American football player
- Reuben Fenton, American merchant and politician from New York
- Reuben Fine, American chess player and psychologist
- Reuben Fink, Ukrainian-American Yiddish writer
- Reuben Foster, American football player
- Reuben Garrick, Australian rugby league player
- Rube Goldberg , American cartoonist and creator of Rube Goldberg devices
- Reuben Hazell, English football player
- Reuben James, US Navy boatswain's mate
- Reuben Lowery, American football player
- Reuben Mattus, Polish businessman
- Reuben Mednikoff, British surrealist artist
- Reuben Noble-Lazarus, English football player
- Reuben Oppenheimer, justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
- Reuben Partridge, American pioneer bridge builder
- Reuben Reid, English football player
- Reuben Snake, Ho-Chunk activist, educator, spiritual leader, and tribal leader
- Reuben Sturman, American pornographer and businessman from Ohio
- Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player
- Reuben Wu, English photographer, director, music producer, member of the band Ladytron
Ruben
- Ruben Amorim, Portuguese football manager
- Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish thief and fraudster
- Ruben Bemelmans, Belgian tennis player
- Ruben Cain, birth name of Robert Gibson , American professional wrestler
- Ruben Darbinyan, Armenian politician and activist and government minister during the First Republic of Armenia
- Ruben Douglas, Panamanian basketball player
- Ruben Enaje, Filipino carpenter and sign painter, known for being voluntarily crucified annually on Good Friday
- Ruben Fleischer, American film director and producer
- Ruben Gabrielsen, Norwegian football player
- Ruben Gallego, American politician
- Ruben Houkes, Dutch judoka
- Ruben Hyppolite II, American football player
- Ruben Kihuen, American politician
- Ruben Kun, President of Nauru
- Ruben Lagus, Finnish general, one of the principal commanders of Lapland War
- Ruben Loftus-Cheek, English football player
- Ruben Markussen, aka Ruben , Norwegian singer-songwriter
- Ruben Nicolai, Dutch television presenter and comedian
- Ruben Nirvi, Finnish linguist and professor
- Ruben Östlund, Swedish film director, producer and screenplay writer
- Ruben Rausing, founder of the food packaging company Tetra Pak
- Ruben Sevak, or Rupen Sevag, real name Ruben Çilingiryan, Ottoman Armenian poet, prose-writer, and doctor, killed by Turkish authorities during the Armenian Genocide
- Ruben Studdard, American singer, winner of American Idol season 2
- Ruben Trumpelmann, South African-born Namibian cricketer
- Ruben Vargas, Swiss football player
- Ruben Wiki, New Zealand rugby player
- Ruben Yesayan, Russian-Armenian test pilot
Rubén/Rúben
- Rubén Aguiar, Argentine long-distance runner
- Rubén Albarrán, Mexican singer-songwriter, member of Café Tacuba
- Ruben de Almeida Barbeiro, real name of Portuguese electro house music DJ and producer KURA
- Rubén Amaro Jr., American baseball player, manager, and coach
- Rubén Ardila, Colombian psychologist
- Rubén Baraja, Spanish football manager
- Rubén Bareiro Saguier, Paraguayan poet and writer
- Rubén Blades, Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, actor, Latin jazz musician and activist
- Rubén Blanco, Spanish professional footballer
- Rubén Callisaya, Bolivian politician
- Rubén Castro, Spanish football player
- Rubén Daray, Argentine racing driver
- Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet
- Rubén de la Red, Spanish football manager
- Rúben Dias, Portuguese football player
- Rubén Duarte, Spanish football player
- Rubén Espinoza, Chilean football player
- Rubén Limardo, Venezuelan fencer
- Rubén Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner
- Rubén Iván Martínez, Spanish football player
- Rúben Neves, Portuguese football player
- Rubén Ochandiano, Spanish actor and director
- Rubén Rangel, Venezuelan road racing cyclist
- Rubén Alonso Rosales, Salvadorian politician
- Rúben Semedo, Portuguese football player
- Rubén Sobrino, Spanish football player
- Rubén Sosa, Uruguayan football player
- Rubén Tejada, Panamanian baseball player
- Rúben Vinagre, Portuguese football player
- Rubén Xaus, Spanish motorcycle racer
- Rubén Yáñez, Spanish football player
Rueben
- Rueben Bain Jr., American football player
- Rueben Mayes, Canadian former American football player
Surname
Reuben
- David and Simon Reuben, billionaire entrepreneurs in the UK
- David Reuben , American author and psychiatrist
- Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress
- John Reuben, American Christian hip-hop artist
- Julie Reuben, historian interested in the role of education in American society and culture
- Scott Reuben, disgraced American anesthesiologist and professor
- Stewart Reuben, British chess player, chess arbiter, and poker author
- William A. Reuben, American journalist noted for his work on the cases of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and of Alger Hiss
Ruben
Rueben
- Hannah Rueben, Nigerian wrestler
Fictional characters
- Reuben , also known as Experiment 625, a character in the Lilo & Stitch franchise
- Reuben , a character from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
- Reuben, a Minecraft pig from Minecraft: Story Mode
- Reuben Kincaid, the Partridge Family's manager
- Ruben Lozano, a crime lord antagonist in Red vs. Blue Season 14
- Ruben "Ruvik" Victoriano, main antagonist
- Reuben Price, "Captain Price", a bounty hunter antagonist in Just Roll With It
- Reuben Tishkoff, bank rolls con in “Ocean’s 11”
- Ruben , fictional character