Rubery is the name of two adjacent settlements; one a village in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, the other a suburb of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England.

[1] Rubery also contiguous with nearby New Frankley, Northfield and Rednal which are all part of Birmingham.

The village has good connections to nearby Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Stourbridge, Worcester and Kidderminster.

The author Jonathan Coe (b.1961) was brought up in Rubery, and his novel "The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim" names several local places and landmarks.

The local councillors are, as of March 2014: Peter McDonald (Labour) and Colin Wilson (Labour) - Waseley (District), Christine McDonald (Labour) - Beacon (District) and Peter McDonald (Labour) - Beacon (County) Part of Rubery is represented on Birmingham City Council by Adrian Delaney of the (Conservative Party (United Kingdom)) who is councillor for the Rubery and Rednal ward.