Rudolph (name)

In other languages

• Afrikaans: Roelof, Rudolf
• Albanian: Rudolf
• Armenian: Ռուդոլֆ
• Catalan: Rodolf
• Croatian: Rudolf
• Czech: Rudolf
• Danish: Rudolf
• Dutch: Roelof, Rudolf, Ruud
• English: Rudolph, Rodolph, Rolph
• Estonian: Rudo, Ruudo, Ruudolf
• Finnish: Ruuto, Ruutolffi
• Flemish: Roel
• French: Rodolphe, Raoul
• Georgian: რუდოლფ
• German: Rudolf, Rolf, Rudloff, diminutive: Rudi
• Greek: Ροδόλφος, Ράλλης
• Hebrew: רודולף
• Hungarian: Rudolf
• Indonesian: Rudolf
• Italian: Rodolfo
• Japanese:ルドルフ, ルド, ルディ
• Latin: Rudolphus
• Latvian: Rūdolfs, Rūdis
• Lithuanian: Rudolfas, Rudas, Rudis
• Manx: Roolwer
• Norwegian: Rudolf
• Polish: Rudolf
• Portuguese: Rodolfo
• Russian: Рудольф
• Serbian: Rudolf
• Slovak: Rudolf
• Slovene: Rudolf
• Spanish: Rodolfo
• Swedish: Rudolf

  Given name

Royalty and nobility

• Rudolph, Count of Ponthieu
• Rudolph I of Burgundy
• Rudolph II of Burgundy
• Rudolph of France, reigned 923–936
• Rudolph III of Burgundy
• Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Duke of Swabia
• Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg
• Rudolf I of Germany
• Rudolf II, Duke of Austria
• Rudolph I of Bohemia
• Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine
• Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine
• Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
• Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria

  Religious figures

• Rudolf of Fulda, 9th-century monk, writer and theologian
• Rudolf von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archbishop of Olomouc and member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine
• Rudolf Baláž. Slovak Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banská Bystrica from 1990 until his death in 2011
• Rudolph Grossman, Austrian-American rabbi

  Wartime figures and military leaders

• Rudolf Freiherr Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Colonel-General in the Austro-Hungarian army, the last Imperial Minister for War to the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I
• Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff
• Rodolfo Graziani, prominent Italian military officer in the Kingdom of Italy's Regio Esercito and the Minister of National Defence of the Italian Social Republic
• Rudolph B. Davila, United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in the European theatre during World War II
• Rudolph Bierwirth, General officer in the Australian Army
• Rudolf Anderson, U.S. Air Force pilot and first recipient of the Air Force Cross
• Rudolf von Bünau, German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II and one of the chief commanders of Vienna Offensive
• Rudolf von Brudermann, general of Austria-Hungary during the First World War who led the Austro-Hungarian 3rd army during the Battle of Galicia
• Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany
• Rudolf Berthold, German World War I air ace
• Rudolph Douglas Raiford, American World War II combat officer
• Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German army officer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943, leader of the unit, soldiers of which discovered the mass graves of the Soviet-perpetrated Katyn massacre
• Rudolf Schmundt, German officer in the Wehrmacht and adjutant to Adolf Hitler during World War II, later tried to unsuccessfully assassinate Hitler
• Rudolf Viest, Slovak military leader, commander of the 1st Czechoslovak army during the Slovak National Uprising
• Rudolf Frank, German Luftwaffe military aviator and night fighter ace during World War II
• Rudolf von Eschwege, German World War I flying ace who was the German Empire's only fighter pilot operating on the Macedonian Front
• Rudolf Veiel, German Panzer general during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Greece
• Rudolf Sieckenius, German Generalmajor during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Berlin
• Rudolf von Slatin, Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in Sudan
• Rudolf Jordan, Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt
• Hans-Rudolf Rösing, German U-boat commander in World War II
• Rudolph Hiemstra, South African Air Force commander
• Rudolf Schmidt, general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II
• Rodolfo P. Hernández, United States Army soldier
• Rudolf Perešin, Croatian fighter pilot serving in the Yugoslav Air Force during Croatian War of Independence
• Rudolf Toussaint, German army officer, one of the principal Wehrmacht commanders fighting during Prague uprising of May 1945
• Rudolf Meister, German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II
• Rudolf Maister Slovene military officer, poet and political activist, one of the leading perpetrators of Marburg's Bloody Sunday, one of the principal commanders of Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia

  Nazis

• Rudolf Diels, German Nazi SS official and Director of German secret police Gestapo from 1933 to 1934
• Rudolf Brandt, German Nazi SS officer and leader of the Jewish skull collection project
• Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer in Nazi Germany, one of the leaders of Beer Hall Putsch, best known for his solo flight to Scotland
• Rudolf Höss, German Nazi first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp
• Rudolf Jung, Austrian from Bohemia and Nazi theoretician, wrote the first theoretical book on Nazism, “National Socialism: Its Foundations, Development, and Goals,” in 1919
• Rudolf Lange, Nazi German SS officer and one of the major perpetrators of the Holocaust, commander of Salaspils concentration camp, one of the leading perpetrators of Jelgava massacre and Rumbula massacre
• Rudolf Spanner, Director of the Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II who set up a process to produce soap made from human corpses
• Rudolf Rahn, Nazi German politician and Plenipotentiary to the Italian Social Republic

  Multi-fields

• Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist

  Literature

• Rudolf G. Binding, German writer and supporter of Hitler
• Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Latvian writer, journalist and playwright, considered one of the greatest writers in Latvian history and particularly a master of realism
• Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher
• Rudolf Fischer, German writer
• Rudolf Löwenstein, German writer
• Rudolf Arapović, Croatian Writer and Dissident

  Movie industry

• Rudolph Anders, American actor
• Rudolph Sternad, American art director and production designer
• Rudolf Buitendach, South African born film director and editor
• Rudolph Cartier, Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC
• Rudolf Carl, Austrian actor
• Rudolf Christians, German actor
• Rudolf Icsey, Hungarian cinematographer
• Rodolfo "Rudy" Mancuso, American actor, Internet personality and musician most notable for his comedic videos on YouTube and previously on Vine
• Rudolf Martin, German actor working mainly in the United States
• Rudolph Maté, Polish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and film producer
• Rudolf "Ruud" Kleinpaste, Dutch-New Zealand naturalist and TV host
• Rudolph Schildkraut, Austrian film and theatre actor
• Rudolf Ising, member of the American animation team Harman and Ising, known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios and creating the Looney Tunes
• Rudolf Jugert, German film director
• Rudolph G. Kopp, Austrian composer
• Rudolf Platte, German actor
• Rudolf Prack, Austrian actor
• Rudolph Valentino, Italian silent film actor
• Rudolf van den Berg, Dutch film director and screenwriter
• Rudolph Walker, British actor
• Rudolf Noelte, German film director, theater director and opera director
• Rudy Wurlitzer, American novelist and screenwriter
• Rudolf Bernhard, Swiss actor and theater director
• Rudolf Meinert, Austrian screenwriter, film producer and director
• Rudolf Hrušínský, Czech actor
• Rudolf Zehetgruber, Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
• Ruedi Walter, Swiss comedian and actor

  In science and technology

• Ralph H. Baer , German-American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer
• Rudolf Rudy Ballieux, Dutch immunologist
• Rudolph Boysen, American horticulturist, creator of the boysenberry
• Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician
• Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the diesel engine
• Rudolf Erren, German hydrogen-engine pioneer
• Rudolf Hauschka, Austrian chemist, author, inventor, entrepreneur and anthroposophist
• Rudolf Leuckart, German zoologist
• Rudolf Fleischmann, German experimental nuclear physicist
• Rudolf Kochendörffer, German mathematician
• Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor of the Kalman filter
• Rudolf Jaenisch, German biologist, Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
• Rudolf Ernst Brünnow, German-American orientalist and philologist
• Rudolph John Anderson, American biochemist
• Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning chemist
• Rudolf Robert Maier, German pathologist
• Rudolf Simek, Austrian Germanist and philologian
• Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist
• Rudolf Virchow, German physician and biologist
• Rudolf Wolf, Swiss astronomer and mathematician
• Rudolf Peierls, British physicist
• Rudolf Wagner, German anatomist and physiologist and the discoverer of the germinal vesicle