Rube
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A rube is a country bumpkin (peasantly, peasantish) or an inexperienced, unsophisticated, gullible person.
Rube is also sometimes used as a nickname, for Reuben, Ruben or Ruby.
- Rube Bloom (1902–1976), Jewish American songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, vocalist and writer
- Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor
- Rubin Lacey (1902–1969), American country blues musician, singer and songwriter
