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Rufinus may refer to:
- Saints Rufinus, eleven saints named Rufinus in Roman Martyrology
- Rufinus of Assisi, 3rd-century saint and martyr
- Rufinus (French saint) (d. 287), Christian martyr
- Rufinus (Roman governor), 3rd century governor of Roman Britain
- Rufinus (consul) (c. 335–395), Eastern Roman statesman
- Tyrannius Rufinus (c. 340–410), Roman monk, historian, and translator
- Saint Rufinus of Sarsina (5th century), bishop of Sarsina
- Rufinus (poet) of the Greek Anthology
- Rufinus (decretist), 12th-century canon lawyer
... Rufinus is the fragment of the name of a governor of Britannia Superior, a province of Roman Britain probably some time during the early third century AD. He may have been the same man as Aulus Triarius Rufinus who held the consulship in 210 although Quintus Aradius Rufinus who was consul ten or fifteen years later is another possibility. Alternatively he may have been neither of these men.
The name Rufinus is recorded only on an inscription found at the ancient Roman fort of Regulbium in Kent, in a context with pottery that could be loosely dated to c. 220 AD.
Flavius Rufinus (died November 27, 395) was a 4th-century Eastern Roman Empire statesman of Gaulish extraction who served as Praetorian prefect of the East for the emperor Theodosius I, as well as for his son Arcadius, under whom Rufinus was the actual power behind the throne.
He was the subject of the verse invective In Rufinum by the western court poet Claudian.
Rufinus was an Italian canon lawyer, described as the most influential canonist at the University of Bologna in the mid 12th century. He composed an influential Summa on Gratian's Decretum before 1159.
Stephen of Tournai, his pupil, quoted from his Summa several times.
Rufinus (floruit 431–432) was a praetorian prefect of the East, one of the most important officials of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Rufinus is the author of approximately thirty-eight epigrams, found in the fifth book of the Greek Anthology. When he was active is unknown, though we know that his poems existed by the 390s AD, and he probably postdated the Garland of Philip of Thessalonica, published under Nero. Alan Cameron dates Rufinus to before Strato, which would imply that he was active before 250 AD. Rufinus possibly lived near Ephesus, where one of his poems is set. His verses are of the same light amatory character as those of Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius, Macedonius, and others; but beyond this there is no other indication of his period.
In the Anthology of Planudes, there is also an epigram ascribed to an otherwise unknown Rufinus Domesticus. He is not considered to be the same person as the Rufinus who wrote the previously mentioned epigrams of Book V.