Rudy
Rudy or Rudi is a masculine given name, sometimes short for Rudolf, Rudolph, Rawad, Rudra, Ruairidh, or variations thereof, a nickname and a surname which may refer to:
People
Given name or nickname
- Rudolf Rudy Andeweg, Dutch political scientist
- Rudolf Rudi Assauer, German football manager and player
- Rudolf Rudy Ballieux, Dutch immunologist
- Rudi Carrell, Dutch television entertainer
- Rudy Clavel, Salvadoran footballer
- Rudy D'Amico, American National Basketball Association scout, and former college and professional basketball coach
- Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
- Rudi Dil, birth name of Ruud Gullit, Dutch retired football manager and player
- Rudi Dolezal, Austrian film director and film producer
- Rüdiger Rudi Dornbusch, German economist
- Alfred Willi Rudolf Rudi Dutschke, the most prominent spokesperson of the 1960s German student movement
- Rudy Florio, Canadian football player
- Jonathan Rudy Ford, American football player
- Val Rudy Galindo, American retired figure skater
- Rudi Garcia, French football manager and former player
- Rudy Gay, American basketball player
- Rudolf Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born American fashion designer
- Rudolph Rudy Giuliani former US Associate Attorney General and former Mayor of New York City
- Rudy Gobert, French basketball player
- Rudy Haddad, French-Israeli football player
- Rudy Horn, German juggler
- Rudy Kennedy, British rocket scientist and Holocaust survivor and activist
- Rudolph Rudy LaRusso, American basketball player
- Rudy Linka, Czech-American jazz guitarist
- Rudy Pankow, American actor
- Rudy Ruettiger, American football player, motivational speaker, and inspiration for the film Rudy
- Rudolph Rudy Sikich, American National Football League player
- Rudolf Rudi Skácel, Czech footballer
- Rudi Spring, German composer, pianist and academic
- Rudolf Rudi Tröger, German painter and academic
- Rudy Trouvé, Belgian musician
- Rudy Turk, American museum director, curator, painter
- Hubert Rudy Vallée, American singer, actor and bandleader, one of the first modern pop stars
- Rudolf Rudi Vis, Dutch-born British politician and Member of Parliament
- Rudolf Rudi Völler, German retired football manager and player
- Rudolf Vrba, Slovak-Jewish biochemist, Auschwitz concentration camp escapee who co-wrote a report of the mass murders being committed there
- Rudi Widodo, Indonesian footballer
- Rudolph Rudy Wiedoeft, American saxophonist
- Preston Rudolph Rudy York, American Major League Baseball player
- Rudi Ying, Chinese ice hockey player
- Albert Rudolph, American entrepreneur and Hindu spiritual teacher
Alias or stage name
- Jan Bytnar, nom de guerre Rudy, Polish resistance fighter
- Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar
- Rudy de Mérode, real name Frédéric Martin, French collaborator in the Second World War
- Rudy Grayzell, stage name of American rockabilly musician Rudolph Paiz Jimenez
Surname
- Andrzej Rudy, Polish footballer
- Florian Rudy, German footballer
- Gherasim Rudi, Prime Minister of the Moldovan SSR
- Henry Rudi, Norwegian huntsman and polar bear hunter
- Joe Rudi, American former Major League Baseball player
- Kathy Rudy, American women's studies scholar and theologian
- Michał Radziwiłł Rudy, German-Polish diplomat and nobleman
- Mikhail Rudy, Russian-French pianist
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Indian politician
- Ruth Rudy, American politician
- Sebastian Rudy, German footballer
- Steven Rudy, American politician and businessman
Fictional characters
- Rudy, Abby's stepbrother on Sesame Street
- Rudy Steiner, from The Book Thief
- Rudi van DiSarzio, a psychedelic monk in The Mighty Boosh
- Rudi Gunn, in the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by Clive Cussler
- Rudeus Greyrat, the main character of the Japanese light novel Mushoku Tensei
- Rudy Huxtable, in the American sitcom The Cosby Show
- Rudy Jones, the best-known incarnation of the Parasite (comics), a DC Comics villain
- Rudy Pipilo, a gangster in the American drama series The Deuce
- Rudy Tabootie, in the animated series ChalkZone
- Rudy Wade, in the British science fiction TV series Misfits
- Rudy Wells, a scientist in the American TV series The Six Million Dollar Man
- Rudy, a character in season two of the Pokémon anime series
- Rudy, in the 2009 animated film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- R.U.D.I, George Jetson's work computer in the animated TV series The Jetsons
- Baron Rudi, in Austrian humor
- Regular-Sized Rudy, a supporting character in the animated series Bob's Burgers
- Rudy Cooper, aka Brian Moser in the Dexter television series
- Rudy, a Frankfurt body, who plays a street barrel-organ and is friend of Clara and Heidi in the Heidi television series
- Rudolph "Rudy" Holiday, character from the videogame Deltarune
Songs
- "A Message to You, Rudy", a 1967 song by Dandy Livingstone, later covered by The Specials in 1979
- "Rudy", a 1974 song by Supertramp from their album ''Crime of the Century''