Rex
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Rex is the Latin word for "king" (see also King of Rome). Rex is an English male given name.
Rex may also refer to:
[edit] People
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[edit] Politics
- Rex Connor (1907-1977), Australian politician
- Rex Hunt (governor) (1926), former British Governor of the Falkland Islands
- Rex E. Lee (1937-1996), former U.S. Solicitor General
[edit] Entertainment and arts
- Rex Allen (1920-1999), American entertainer
- Rex Beach (1877-1949), American novelist and playwright
- Rex Smith (1955), American entertainer
- Rex Stout (1886-1975), American author
- Rex Hunt (1949), Australian television and radio personality and former football player
- Rex Murphy (1947), Canadian commentator
- Rex Navarrete (1969), Filipino American comedian
[edit] Film, TV and stage
- Rex Cherryman (1897-1928), American stage and screen actor
- Rex Harrison (1908-1990), British actor
- Rex Ingram (actor) (1855-1969), American actor
- Rex Ingram (director) (1893-1950), Irish-born American film director
- Rex Lease (1903-1966), American actor
- Rex Linn (1956), American actor
- Simon Rex (1974), American actor
[edit] Music
- Rex Brown (1964), former bassist of heavy metal band Pantera
- Rex (band), an alternative rock band
- Rex Gildo (1939-1999), German singer
- Rex Goudie (1985), Canadian singer and 2005 Canadian Idol runner-up
- Rex Liu (1982), British-Canadian classical bassoonist
- Rex (Live at the Fillmore) - a 2008 album by Keller Williams, Keith Moseley and Jeff Austin
[edit] Sports
- Rex Barney (1924-1997), American baseball pitcher and announcer
- Rex Chapman (1967), American former basketball player
- Rex Grossman (1980), American football player
- Rex Hughes, American basketball coach
[edit] Other
- Rex Humbard (1919-2007), American television evangelist
- Rex Paterson (1902-1978), British Agriculturalist
[edit] Fictional dogs
- Rex, a dog in the animated (claymation) television show, Rex the Runt
- Inspector Rex, an Austrian police dog
- Rex the Wonder Dog, a canine DC Comics superhero
- Rex, the sheepdog from the 1995 Academy Award winning film Babe
[edit] Other fictional characters
- Rex, a locomotive on the fictional Arlesdale Railway in The Railway Series books
- A character from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
- A character from the game "Rex" by Martech
- A dinosaur-like enemy from the Super Mario video game series
- Metal Gear REX, a mecha from the video game, Metal Gear Solid
- A toy character from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story movies
- Rex (NX Files), a character in the action adventure web-show NX Files
- Rex Raptor, a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series (known as Dinosaur Ryuzaki in the original version)
- Rex Van de Kamp, a character in the TV series Desperate Housewives
[edit] Animals
- Tyrannosaurus rex, often called T. rex, a species of dinosaur of the genus Tyrannosaurus
- The Cornish Rex and the Devon Rex cat breeds
- The Rex and the Mini Rex, rabbit breeds and type of fur in rabbits
- Rex (dog), a dog once owned by Ronald Reagan
- Rex the Wonder Horse, star of 15 Hollywood motion pictures
- Rex, the name of a Coelurosauravus-like reptile on the TV series, Primevall
- Rex Murphy, a parrot owned by Tom Green, named after the Canadian commentator
[edit] Businesses
- Regional Express Airlines (aka Rex), an Australian airline
- Rex, a Carnival Krewe in New Orleans that hosts the Rex parade
- Rex Records, the name of at least three different record labels
[edit] Other
- Rex, King of Carnival, the de facto monarch of the Carnival Season in New Orleans
- rex (language), a programming language used for teaching purposes at Harvey Mudd College
- REX, an IATA airport code for the General Lucio Blanco International Airport in Reynosa, Mexico
- Rex, the dinosaur mascot of the University of Calgary
- Rex (video game), a 1988 game for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
- Rex (musical), a stage musical, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
- Subaru Rex, a Japanese Kei car
- Subaru Impreza WRX (colloquially pronounced as "Impreza Rex"), a car referred to as "Rex"
- REX, a series of PDAs, including the REX 5000 and REX 6000
- SS Rex, an Italian luxury ship, sunk by Allied bombers off the coast of Slovenia in 1944
- Rex (chair), a foldable chair
[edit] See also
- Oedipus the King (aka Oedipus Rex), a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles
- Oedipus rex (opera), an opera by Igor Stravinsky
- REXX (originally named Rex), a computer programming language
- Rexism, the fascist political movement in Belgium and the ideology of the Rexist Party (officially called Christus Rex)
- T.Rex (band), an English rock band
- R.E.X. Records, a record label