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al-Rumi (Arabic: الرومي, also transcribed as ar-Rumi), or its Persian variant of simply Rumi, is a nisba denoting a person from or related to the historical region(s) specified by the name Rûm. It may refer to:

• Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic commonly referred to by the moniker Rumi
• Suhayb ar-Rumi, a companion of Muhammad
• Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī, 14th-century mathematician
• Ibn al-Rumi, 9th-century Arabic poet
• Dhuka al-Rumi, 10th-century Abbasid governor of Egypt
• Al-Adli ar-Rumi, 9th-century Arab chess player and theoretician
• Mustafa Rumi, 16th-century Ottoman general
• Sarjun ibn Mansur al-Rumi, Umayyad official
• Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-'Abdullāh al-Rūmī al-Hamawī, 13th-century scholar
• Ahmet Câmî-i Rûmî, 16th-century Ottoman official
• Shah Sultan Rumi, 11th-century Sufi saint of Bengal