John Ruskin (1819-1900), an English author, poet and artist, although most famous for his work as art critic and social critic.

Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridge, England

Ruskin College, Oxford, an adult education college named after John Ruskin

Ruskin Bond, an Indian author of British descent

Ruskin, Florida

Ruskin, British Columbia

Ruskin, Nebraska

"The Ruskin", the colloquial short form for The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University

Ruskin Spear, a British painter

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.

Ruskin Colony, a utopian socialist colony which existed in Dickson County, Tennessee from 1894 to 1899 (the Florida and British Columbia Ruskins were also Ruskinite colonies)