Philipp Bartholomé Rüfer (born June 7, 1844 in Liège, Belgium, † September 17, 1919 in Berlin) was a German composer. Composition with Étienne Soubre at the Liège Conservatory and Moritz Hauptmann at the Leipzig Conservatory. From 1871 he worked in Berlin, where he first taught piano and score playing at the Conservatory of Julius Stern and then at the later Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory - there he taught as a professor from 1881. He was considered an influential teacher, his students included Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Georgi Catoire, Heinz Tiessen, Otto Besch, Fritz Schedler and Hans Schindler.