Rex
Rex is Latin for king and may also refer to:
People
Places
- Rex, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Clayton County, United States
- Rex, North Carolina, a census-designated place in Robeson County, United States
- Rex River, a river in the U.S. state of Washington
- Mount Rex, an isolated mountain in Antarctica
Literature and performing arts
Fictional characters
Film
Animated television series
Live-action television series
- Rex Balsom, a character on the soap opera One Life to Live
- Inspector Rex, an Austrian police dog in the series of the same name
- Rex (Primeval), a Coelurosauravus-like reptile in the series Primeval
- Rex Van de Kamp, a character in the series Desperate Housewives
Other fiction
Biology
- Animals
- Cornish Rex, a breed of cat
- Devon Rex, a breed of cat
- Mini Rex, a breed of rabbit
- Standard Rex, a breed of rabbit
- Rex (dog), a dog once owned by Ronald Reagan
- Rex (horse), aka Rex the Wonder Horse, star of 15 Hollywood motion pictures
- Rex sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), a flatfish species
- Nuralagus rex, extinct giant rabbit
- Tyrannosaurus rex, the iconic dinosaur species
Other species ending in "rex" include:
- Species Latin binomial name abbreviations
Transportation
Land
Sea
- SS Rex, an Italian luxury ship, sunk by Allied bombers off the coast of Slovenia in 1944
Air
Energy and fuels
Music
Computing and technology
- The REX prefix used by the x86-64 instruction encoding
- rex (language), a programming language used for teaching purposes at Harvey Mudd College
- REXX (originally named Rex), a computer programming language
- REX 5000, a series of personal digital assistants
- REX 6000, a series of personal digital assistants
- Rex (video game), a 1988 game for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
- REX, an audio file format; see REX2
Other
- Rex (king), etymological cognate of Raja
- Rex parade, the de facto monarch of the Carnival Season in New Orleans
- Rex 84, a plan by the United States to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens
- Rex (chair), a foldable chair
- The Rex Streak, a streak of 20 consecutive shows on The Jim Rome Show in which a person named "Rex" was interviewed
- Rex, the dinosaur mascot of the Calgary Dinos athletic teams at the University of Calgary
- Rexism, a fascist political movement and ideology in Belgium
- Rex, title of the kings of ancient Rome
- Rex, a title on coins of British kings
- the MP412 REX, a Russian handgun