A ruffian is a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
As a proper noun, Ruffian may refer to:
- Ruffian (horse) (1972-1975), a famous thoroughbred filly racehorse
- Ruffian (film), 2007 television movie about the racehorse
- Ruffian Games, a Scottish games developer
- Ruffian, a chess engine
- Border Ruffians, pro-Slavery activists from Missouri in the American Civil War
- The Ruffian on the Stair, a British play
- HMS Bellerophon (1786), also known as Billy Ruffian
- The Ruffians, the major antagonists of the Nintendo game Sin and Punishment
- British codename of the German X-Geraet radar system.
Famous quotes containing the word ruffian:
“Now, neigbour confines, purge you of your scum!
Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit
The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)