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:

People

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

Entertainment and arts

• Rex Allen (1920-1999), American entertainer
• Rex (2007), Swedish fashion brand
• 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
• Rex Chiu (1979), Hong Kong Chinese entertainer

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

Music

• Rex Brown (1964), former bassist of heavy metal band Pantera
• Nick Oliveri (aka Rex Everything) (1971),Mondo Generator frontman and former Queens of the Stone Age bassist
• Rex (band), an alternative rock band
• Rex Gildo (1939-1999), German singer
• Rex Goudie (1985), Canadian singer and 2005 Canadian Idol runner-up
• Rex Sexton, (1982), Christian Rapper Dyrty Dymond

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

Other

• Rex Humbard (1919-2007), American television evangelist
• Rex Paterson (1902-1978), British Agriculturalist

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 Wonder Dog, a canine actor from numerous silent films of the 1920s.

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 an action adventure web-show called 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

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 (imdb)
• 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

Businesses

• Regional Express Airlines (aka Rex), an Australian airline
• Rex, a Carnival Krewe in New Orleans that hosts the Rex parade
• Rex (company), an Italian company that makes electronics
• REX (company), an Omaha, Nebraska company that specializes in Workers' Compensation technology and processing
• Rex TV & Appliance, a retailer of major appliances and electronics
• Rex Records, the name of at least three different record labels
• REX - Real Estate Equity Exchange (company), a company based in San Francisco that allows a homeowner to gain access to the equity in their home without incurring debt. http://www.rexagreement.com

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 Theater, a theater and music hall in Athens, Greece
• Rex, the dinosaur mascot of the University of Calgary
• Rex (video game), a 1988 game for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
• Rex, a stage musical by music 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 was an Italian luxury ship, sunk by Allied bombers off the coast of Slovenia in 1944
• Rex Engines, a German manufacturer of small two-stroke engines and mopeds believed now defunct.
• REX (Radiation Experiment), a series of two experimental USAF satellites launched June 29 1991 and March 9 1996
• Rex (chair), a foldable chair

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, an English rock band
• R.E.X. Records, a record label

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