# Ruby (disambiguation)

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 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 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
* 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, Don't Take Your Love to Town" and the album of the same name by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
* "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
* "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

* 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