Show ContentsRubens Surname History


United States Rubens migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Rubens Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • F H Rubens, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1850 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Rubens (post 1700) +

  • Shannon De Rubens, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington, 2008 2
  • Alma Rubens (1897-1931), American silent film actress and stage performer
  • Heinrich Rubens (1865-1922), German physicist
  • Shona Rubens (b. 1986), Australian born Canadian Olympic skier
  • Bernice Rubens (1928-2004), Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist
  • Paul Rubens (1875-1917), English songwriter and librettist
  • Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Flemish painter
  • Michael Rubens Bloomberg (b. 1942), American politician, 108th Mayor of New York City and winner of the 2009 Lasker Award for public service
  • Michael Rubens Bloomberg (b. 1942), American Republican politician, Mayor of New York City, New York, 2002- 3
  • Rubens Francisco "R.F." Lucchetti (1930-2024), Brazilian fiction writer, illustrator, writer and scripts for films, comic books and photo comics


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2017, April 12) Shannon Rubens. Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 19) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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