Rubin is both a surname and a given name. Rubins is a Latvian-language name.It derives from the biblical name Reuben as a Jewish name. The choice is also influenced by the word rubin meaning "ruby," in some languages.[1]
Notable people with the name include:
- Alan Rubin, American musician
- Albert Rubin (1887–1956), Jewish painter
- Andrejs Rubins (born 1978), Latvian footballer.
- Andy Rubin, senior vice president of Mobile at Google
- Andrew Rubin, Daniel Breen’s father
- Arthur Rubin (born 1956), American mathematician
- Avi Rubin, expert on electronic voting security
- Barbara Rubin (1945–1980), American filmmaker and performance artist
- Barry Rubin (1950–2014), Israeli academic
- Benjamin Rubin (1917–2010), American microbiologist
- Bruce Joel Rubin (born 1943), Oscar-winning screenwriter.
- Carol Rubin (1945–2001), American film producer
- Chanda Rubin (born 1976), American professional tennis player.
- Charles T. Rubin, political science professor
- Danny Rubin, an American-Israeli basketball player
- Daphne Rubin-Vega (born 1969), American dance music singer and actress.
- Dave Rubin (born 1976), American comedian, talk show host and television personality
- Donald Rubin, Professor of Statistics
- Donna Rubin (born 1959), American tennis player
- Eduard Rubin, Swiss Army, inventor of the first jacketed rifle bullets (1882) and co-inventor of the Schmidt–Rubin rifle
- Edgar John Rubin (1886–1951)
- Enriqueta González Rubín (1832–1877), Spanish writer and journalist
- Eric J. Rubin, Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Eric S. Rubin (born 1961), American diplomat and ambassador
- Erik Rubin (born 1971), Mexican singer and actor.
- Gayle Rubin (born 1949), American cultural anthropologist
- Gerald M. Rubin, American geneticist
- Gretchen Rubin (born 1965), American author and attorney
- Harold Rubin, South African and Israeli artist and jazz clarinetist
- Harry Rubin (virologist) (1926–2020), American virologist and cancer researcher
- Harry M. Rubin (born 1952), American business executive
- Ian Rubin, Ukraine-born Australian rugby league footballer
- Idan Rubin, Israeli football (soccer) player
- Ira Rubin (c. 1930–2013), American bridge player
- Irv Rubin (1946–2002), Canadian-born Kahanist
- Isaak Illich Rubin (1886–1937), Soviet economist and Marxist theorist.
- James Rubin (born 1960), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1997–2000
- James H. Rubin, art historian, New York City
- Jay Rubin
- Jean E. Rubin (1926–2002), American mathematician
- Jennifer Rubin (actress), American film and television actress.
- Jennifer Rubin (journalist), blogger at The Washington Post
- Jerry Rubin, American political activist
- Karl Rubin, American mathematician
- Kathleen Rubins (born 1978), American microbiologist and NASA astronaut.
- Lillian B. Rubin (1924–2014), American sociologist and writer
- Lisa Rubin (born 1977), Canadian theatre director.
- Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1923–2013), Southern literature scholar and publisher
- Marcel Rubin (1905–1995), Austrian composer
- Meyer Rubin (1924–2020), American geologist
- Michael Rubin, American scholar and commentator on Middle Eastern history and politics
- Miri Rubin, British medievalist
- Noah Rubin (born 1996), American tennis player
- Philip Rubin (born 1949), American cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator
- Reuven Rubin (1893–1974), Israeli painter
- Richard Rubin (TV personality), American TV personality.
- Rick Rubin, American record producer and record label owner,
- Ron Rubin (disambiguation)
- Robert Rubin (born 1938), U.S. Treasury Secretary, 1995–1999
- Sabine Rubin (born 1960), a French politician
- Samuel M. Rubin ("Sam the Popcorn Man", 1918–2004), an American entrepreneur credited with the mass introduction of popcorn machines to cinemas
- Shelley Rubin, chairman and CEO of the Jewish Defense League
- Sherry Rubin, born Sherry Arnstein (1930–1997), was an American public servant, author of influential papers in participatory decision-making
- Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923–2019), American psychiatrist and author
- Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American
- Uri Rubin, professor of Arabic and Islamic literature at Tel Aviv University
- Vera Rubin (1928–2016), American astronomer
- Yoram Rubin, bodyguard of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin
- ^ "Rubin", in Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press