Ruben
Ruben or Rubén ( Spanish ) is a male given name . Ruben is also a family name .
Origin and meaning
Reuben comes from the Bible and means in Hebrew "See, a son". There is an Israelite tribe named Ruben , named after the eldest of the 12 sons of Jacob , who are considered to be the patriarchs of the Twelve Tribes of Israel in the Bible .
Name day for Ruben is December 19th.
variants
- Reuben (BKS) in the Anglo-Saxon language area
- Reuven
- Rouven
- Rouveni
- Rouwen
- Rubens (BKS)
- Rupees ( Western Armenian )
- Ruven
- Ruwen
Name bearer
First name
Historical people
- Ruben (Bible) , elder of Jacob's twelve sons
- Ruben (Armenia) , founder of the empire and first prince of Lesser Armenia
- Ruben II (Armenia) (around 1165–1170), prince of Lesser Armenia
- Ruben III. (Armenia) († 1187), Prince of Lesser Armenia
- Raimund II. Ruben of Antioch (around 1195–1222), Prince of Antioch
People of the modern age
- Rouven (* 1969 as Rouven Lavi), Israeli pop singer
- Rouven Costanza (* 1975), German actor and theater director
- Rouven Ertlschweiger (* 1976), Austrian politician
- Rouven Sattelmaier (* 1987), German football goalkeeper
- Rouven Schröder (* 1975), German soccer player
- Rubén Ayala (* 1950), Argentinian football player and coach
- Rubén Baraja (* 1975), Spanish football player
- Rubén Bautista , Mexican pool player
- Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (* 1948), Panamanian singer, actor and politician
- Rubén Botta (* 1990), Argentinian-Italian soccer player
- Rubén Darío (1867–1916), Nicaraguan writer and diplomat
- Rubén Galván (1952–2018), Argentinian football player
- Rubén González Fontanills (1919–2003), Cuban pianist
- Rubén González Rocha ( Rubén; * 1982), Spanish football player
- Rubén Adán González (* 1939), Uruguayan football player
- Rubén Antonio González Medina (* 1949), Puerto Rican priest, Bishop of Caguas
- Ruben Gunawan (1968-2005), Indonesian chess player
- Rubén Juárez (1947-2010), Argentine musician and composer
- Ruben Markussen (* 1995), Norwegian singer
- Rubén Martínez (* 1977), Spanish football player
- Rubén Martínez (* 1984), Spanish football goalkeeper
- Rubén Miño (* 1989), Spanish football goalkeeper
- Rubén Olivares (* 1947), Mexican boxer
- Rubén Olivera (* 1983), Uruguayan football player
- Rubén Pagnanini (* 1949), Argentinian football player
- Rubén Pardo (* 1992), Spanish football player
- Ruben Popa (* 1989), Romanian football player
- Ruben Rausing (1895–1983), Swedish entrepreneur
- Rubén de la Red (* 1985), Spanish football player
- Rubén Rivera (* 1985), Spanish football player
- Rubén Rochina (* 1991), Spanish football player
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson (born 1956), American actor
- Rupen Sevag (1885–1915), Ottoman-Armenian poet, writer and doctor
- Rubén Sosa (* 1966), Uruguayan football player
- Rubén Héctor Sosa (1936–2008), Argentine football player
- Rubén Suñé (1947-2019), Argentinian football player
- Ruben Svensson (* 1953), Swedish football player
- Ruben Visser (* 1989), Dutch poker player
- Rubén Xaus (* 1978), Spanish motorcycle racer
family name
- Aarne Ruben (* 1971), Estonian writer and semiotic
- Christian Ruben (1805–1875), German painter and glass painter
- Emmi Ruben (1875–1955), German art collector and patron
- Ernst Ruben (1880–1944), German judge
- Franz Ruben (1842–1920), Austrian history, genre and landscape painter
- Gunnhild Ruben (1926–2012), German architect and local history researcher
- Jorge Rubén Lugones (* 1952), Argentine priest, Bishop of Lomas de Zamora
- Joseph Ruben (born 1950), American film director
- Leonhard Ruben (1551–1609), German religious, President of the Bursfeld Congregation
- Manuela Ruben (* 1964), German figure skater
- Marco Ruben (* 1986), Argentine soccer player
- Mario Ruben (* 1968), German chemist and university professor
- Martha Ruben-Wolf (1887–1939), German doctor and author
- Michael Rouven (* 1980), German impersonator, doppelganger, double and singer-songwriter
- Paul Ruben (1866–1943), classical philologist and biblical scholar
- Peter Ruben (* 1933), German philosopher
- Sam Ruben (1913–1943), American chemist
- Samuel Ruben (1900–1988), American inventor
- Tanel Ruben (* 1970), Estonian jazz musician
- Walter Ruben (1899–1982), German Indologist
stage name
- Jan Rouven ( Jan Rouven Füchtener ; * 1977), German magician
- Spookey Ruben ( Alan Deil ; * 19 **), Canadian musician, composer and video director
Others
- Ruben (Werben) , village in the municipality of Werben in the Burg in Niederlausitz
- Ruben (Liebenau municipality) , part of Liebenau , Freistadt district, Upper Austria
- Ruben, German name for the village Kladenské Rovné , part of the municipality Kájov (German Gojau) in the district of Český Krumlov (German district of Bohemian Krumlov) in the Czech Republic
- Ruben Collection , Sound Archives in Denmark
literature
- Ulrike Schorn: Ruben. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.