Rex

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Rex or REX may refer to:

  • Rex (title) (Latin: king, ruler, monarch), a royal title
    • King of Rome (Latin: Rex Romae), chief magistrate of the Roman Kingdom

Animals

Dogs

  • Rex (Ronald Reagan's dog)
  • Rex (search and rescue dog), a dog that received a 1945 Dickin Medal for bravery

Other animals

  • -rex, a taxonomic suffix used to describe certain large animals
  • Tyrannosaurus rex, a large predatory cretaceous dinosaur
  • Rex (horse) or Rex the Wonder Horse, star of 15 Hollywood motion pictures
  • Rex rabbit, a breed of rabbit
    • Rex mutation, a type of mutation affecting the fur of the rex rabbit
    • One of at least three types of rabbit fur collectively known as "rex fur"

Computing and technology

  • REX prefix, used by the x86-64 instruction encoding
  • Rexx (originally named Rex), a computer programming language
  • REX, an audio file format; see REX2
  • .rex (disambiguation), file extension used by Rexx scripts and REX2 audio files
  • REX 5000, a series of personal digital assistants
  • REX 6000, a series of personal digital assistants
  • Rex (software), a remote execution, configuration management and software deployment system
  • Rex (video game), a 1988 game for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
  • REX OS, a real-time operating system developed by Qualcomm
  • Samsung REX, a series of affordable feature phones
  • REX, an abbreviation for "request to exit", a push-button or motion detector used for access control

Energy and fuels

  • Rockies Express Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline built across the United States
  • Rex Energy, a defunct company engaged in natural gas exploration
  • Rex International Holding Limited, an oil and gas company headquartered in Singapore

Fictional characters

Film

  • Rex Lewis, a character from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
  • Rex Manning, the former 80s pop idol in the 1995 film Empire Records
  • Rex (Toy Story), a toy dinosaur character from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story series
  • Rex, the sheepdog from the 1995 Academy Award-winning film Babe
  • Rex, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a character in animated film We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
  • Rex Kwon Do, a martial arts choreographer in the 2004 cult film Napoleon Dynamite
  • Rex, Lori's boss in the film Ted
  • Rex Motion Picture Company, was an early film production company in the United States from 1910 into 1917
  • Rex (film), alternative name for Megan Leavey, 2017

Animated television series

  • Rex Banner, a one-time character in The Simpsons appearing in the episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
  • Rex Raptor, a recurring character in the 4kids version of Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Rex Salazar, the main title character from the animated show Generator Rex
  • Rex, the title character in the claymation series Rex the Runt
  • Rex, a character in the Canadian animated series Animal Mechanicals
  • Captain Rex, the clone trooper captain who served as General Anakin Skywalker's second-in-command in the series Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Live-action television series

  • Rex Balsom, a character on the soap opera One Life to Live
  • Rex Brady, a character on the soap opera Days of Our Lives
  • Rex Buckland, a character in the series Charmed
  • Rex (police dog), a fictional character from the police drama television series Inspector Rex
  • Rex (Slovak TV series), a 2017 series based on the Austrian original
  • Rex Van de Kamp, a character in the series Desperate Housewives
  • Rex Britten, a character in the series Awake
  • Rex Powers, a dummy in the series Victorious
  • Rex, a canine character in the Canadian police procedural drama series Hudson & Rex
  • Rex Mohs, a character from Scott the Woz

Other fiction

Music

  • Rex (musical), a stage musical, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
  • Rex (band), an alternative rock band
  • Rex (Live at the Fillmore), a 2008 album by Keller Williams, Keith Moseley and Jeff Austin
  • Rex Records (disambiguation), several record companies
  • Rex Orange County, an English recording artist and songwriter

People

  • Rex (given name), for people with the given name
  • Rex (surname), for people with the surname
  • Rex (artist), American gay pornographic artist
  • Rex (singer), Li Xinyi (born 1998), Chinese singer and songwriter
  • Mad Dog Rex, professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling

Places

Transportation

Air

Land

  • BMW i3 REx, range extender variant of the all-electric BMW i3
  • Subaru Rex, a Japanese Kei car
  • Subaru Impreza WRX, a car referred to as "Rex"
  • Rex-Acme, a premier British motorcycle company of early 1900s, originally Rex
  • Rex (automobile) of Detroit, c. 1914
  • Rex-Simplex and Rex, brand names used by the German company Hering & Richard which produced motor vehicles between 1901 and 1923

Sea

  • SS Rex, an Italian luxury ship, sunk by Allied bombers off the coast of Slovenia in 1944
  • SS Rex, a floating casino off the coast of Southern California from the late 1930s to the late 1940s, run by mobster Anthony Cornero

Other uses

  • Rex (krewe), the Rex Organization, an old-line Mardi Gras krewe
  • Rex Architecture P.C., an architecture and design firm based in New York City, United States
  • Rex 84, a plan by the United States to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens
  • Rex (chair), a foldable chair
  • Rex, the dinosaur mascot of the Calgary Dinos athletic teams at the University of Calgary
  • MP412 REX, a Russian handgun
  • REX, the Regents External Degree program, a former name of Excelsior College
  • Rex Center, a former building in Lowell, Massachusetts
  • Oligosaccharide reducing-end xylanase, an enzyme
  • REX (New Horizons), a radio science experiment on the Pluto flyby space probe

See also

  • Port Rex Technical High School, a technical high school in South Africa
  • Rex Cinema (disambiguation)
  • Rex Theatre (disambiguation)
  • Rexist Party, known as Rex, a fascist political movement and ideology in Belgium
  • T. rex (disambiguation)
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