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Surname

*Surname Ruskin, also Russkin, Russkina, Ruskina. The name occurs especially in Russia, United States and some Asian countries. * John Ruskin (1819–1900), an English author, poet and artist, most famous for his work as art critic and social critic, and for his writing on the architecture of
Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400  ...
. A number of institutions and locations have been named after John Ruskin, including two places in the United States and one in Canada. For a short period "Ruskin" was also adopted as a forename. The name Ruskin is derived from the old given name Rose and the diminutive Kin. *
Effie Ruskin Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (''née'' Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and the wife of Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously been married to the art critic John Ruskin, ...
, wife of John Ruskin *
Harry Ruskin Harry Ruskin (1894–1969) was an American screenwriter and lyricist. He worked for a variety of Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood studios over the course of several decades. For MGM he co-wrote several entries in the Andy Hardy and Dr. Kildare se ...
, American screenwriter *
Ira Ruskin Ira Ruskin (November 12, 1943 – July 3, 2014) was an American politician from Redwood City, California. A Democrat, he is a former member of the California State Assembly and of Redwood City Council. He and his wife Cheryl (a licensed land ...
, American politician *
Joseph Ruskin Joseph Ruskin (born Joseph Richard Schlafman; April 14, 1924 – December 28, 2013) was an American character actor. Also appeared in several underworld character roles on the tv series The Untouchables (1959-1963) Early life Ruskin was born ...
, American character actor *
Morris Ruskin Morris Ruskin is an American independent film producer and founder and chairman of Shoreline Entertainment, an international sales agency. He is also the co-founder of MoJo Global Arts, a production and management company. Biography Ruskin was ...
, American independent film producer and CEO *
Scott Ruskin (baseball) Scott Drew Ruskin (born June 8, 1963) is an American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for four Major League Baseball seasons. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in , Montreal Expos from 1990 to , and Cincinnati Reds from t ...
, American baseball player *
Scott Ruskin (cricketer) Scott Ruskin (born 12 January 1975) is an English cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails b ...
, English cricketer * Sheila Ruskin, English actress * Susan Ruskin, American film producer *
Val Rapava-Ruskin Val Rapava-Ruskin (born 12 October 1992) is an English rugby union player currently playing for Gloucester in the Premiership Rugby. Early career Val Rapava Ruskin has been in many clubs around the world. He left his native Georgia when he was tw ...
, English rugby union player *Edward Ruskin, fictional character of the British soap opera '' Emmerdale Farm''


Places

* Ruskin, British Columbia, Canada *
Ruskin, Iran Ruzkin ( fa, روزكين, also Romanized as Rūzkīn; also known as Rūkīn and Rūskīn) is a village in Sarduiyeh Rural District, Sarduiyeh District, Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Ir ...
, a village in Kerman Province, Iran *In the United States: **
Ruskin, Florida Ruskin is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida. The area was part of the chiefdom of the Uzita at the time of the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1539. The community was founded August 7, 1908, on the shores o ...
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Ruskin, Georgia Ruskin is an unincorporated community in Ware County, Georgia, United States. It lies between Waycross and Manor on U.S. Route 84. The community is part of the Waycross Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Ruskin was established in the 1890s, ...
** Ruskin, Minnesota **
Ruskin, Nebraska Ruskin is a village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 123 at the 2010 census. History Ruskin was established in 1887 when the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. It was named after J ...
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Ruskin Colony The Ruskin Colony (or Ruskin Commonwealth Association) was a utopian socialist colony which existed near Tennessee City in Dickson County, Tennessee from 1894 to 1896. The colony moved to a slightly more permanent second settlement on an old far ...
, a utopian socialist colony which existed in Dickson County, Tennessee from 1894 to 1899 (the Florida and British Columbia Ruskins were also Ruskinite colonies) **Ruskin Drive, a road in Altoona, Pennsylvania


Institutions

* Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridge, England *"The Ruskin", the colloquial short form for
the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art The Ruskin School of Art, known as the Ruskin, is an art school at the University of Oxford, England. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division. History The Ruskin grew out the Oxford School of Art, which was founded in 1865 and later became ...
, Oxford University * Ruskin College, Oxford, an adult education college named after John Ruskin *
Ruskin Colleges The Ruskin Colleges were a group of American colleges founded in the early 20th century by the socialist philanthropist Walter Vrooman, the college administrator George McAnelly Miller, and others, in the same spirit as the British Ruskin College, ...
, a group of U.S. colleges named after John Ruskin *
Ruskin Gallery The Ruskin Gallery is a gallery within the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield, England. It houses a collection of minerals, paintings, ornithological prints, drawings, manuscripts and architectural plaster casts assembled by John Ruskin. It first ...
, in Sheffield *
Ruskin Museum The Ruskin Museum is a small local museum in Coniston, Cumbria, northern England. It was established in 1901 by W. G. Collingwood, an artist and antiquarian who had worked as secretary to art critic John Ruskin. The museum is both a memorial t ...
, in Coniston, Cumbria * Ruskin Pottery, an English pottery studio in operation between 1898 and 1935 *
Ruskin Hall Ruskin Hall is a residence hall at the University of Pittsburgh and a contributing property to the Schenley Farms National Historic District. Constructed in 1921–22 by H. L. Stevens & Company, with an annex added in 1925–26, it is an eigh ...
, a residence hall at the University of Pittsburgh and a
National Historic Place The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
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Ruskin High School (disambiguation) Ruskin High School may refer to: *Ruskin High School, Crewe, a secondary school in Crewe, Cheshire, England *Ruskin High School, Kansas City, a high school in Kansas City, Missouri, United States See also

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Ruskin Library The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research Centre is an archive, Accredited Museum, and research centre at University of Lancaster, in the north of England. The Director of The Ruskin is Professor Sandra Kemp. Prior to 2019, The Ruskin - Librar ...
; Lancaster University, United Kingdom.


Forename

* Ruskin Bond, an Indian author of British descent *
Ruskin Spear Ruskin Spear, CBE, RA (30 June 1911 – 17 January 1990) was an English painter and teacher of art, regarded as one of the foremost British portrait painters of his day. Born in Hammersmith, Spear attended the local art school before going on ...
, a British painter


Other

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Ruskin Dam Ruskin Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Stave River in Ruskin, British Columbia, Canada. The dam was completed in 1930 for the primary purpose of hydroelectric power generation. The dam created Hayward Lake, which supplies water to a 105 MW ...
, in British Columbia, Canada *
Ruskin's Ride Ferry Hinksey Road is a road in west Oxford, England, leading south from the Botley Road. The road leads to the Osney Mead Industrial Estate to the east, started in 1961. To the east is Osney Ditch. History The road is named after the village ...
, a bridleway in Oxford, England *A type of fried potato skin snack that's a clipped version of "russet skin", and may or may not be made from
russet potato A russet potato is a type of potato that is large, with dark brown skin and few eyes. The flesh is white, dry, soft, and mealy, and it is suitable for baking, mashing, and french fries. Russet potatoes are also known as Idaho potatoes in the Unit ...
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