📖 Acerca de Rufo
Rufo es la forma española e italiana del antiguo nombre latino Rufus, que significa 'pelirrojo'; lleva un patrimonio romano y cristiano primitivo, con un Rufo del Nuevo Testamento saludado por san Pablo como 'elegido en el Señor'.
📍 Detalles
- OrigenLatin
- Género♂ Masculino
- SignificadoVariant of Rufus. Red-haired
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⭐ Personas Famosas
- Rufus of Rome (Saint) — Early Christian mentioned by Saint Paul in Romans 16:13 as 'chosen in the Lord,' believed to be the son of Simon of Cyrene who carried Christ's cross; venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions.
- Rufus of Ephesus — Greek physician and medical writer (fl. c. 100 AD) whose surviving texts on anatomy, pathology, and dietetics were influential through the medieval period in both European and Islamic medicine; one of the most important doctors of antiquity after Galen.
- Quintus Curtius Rufus — Roman historian (1st century AD) who wrote Historiae Alexandri Magni, the only complete Latin biography of Alexander the Great to survive; a vivid, dramatic account that shaped how the medieval West imagined Alexander.
- Rufo Caballero — Cuban film critic and essayist (1965-2013), one of Cuba's most celebrated cultural commentators, whose writings on cinema and culture blended rigorous analysis with lyrical prose; awarded numerous prizes for cultural journalism.