Rupert (name)
Rupert or Ruppert is an English truncation of Latin Rupertus, which derives from Old High German Hruodoperht/Hruodoberht which are also the source of the name Robert. Thus, "Rupert" and "Robert" are different modern forms of the same name. The Old High German form of the name evolved from Germanic Hrothi, "fame, glory, renown, honour, godlike" + Berht, "bright"; thus, Rupert and Robert mean "fame bright".
Given name
A–P
- Saint Rupert of Bingen
- Rupert Boneham, American multi-time Survivor contestant
- Rupert Brooke, English poet
- Rupert Bunny, Australian painter
- Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon, great-grandson of Queen Victoria
- Rupert Carington, 4th Baron Carrington, English Liberal MP and soldier
- Rupert Carington, 5th Baron Carrington, English peer, father of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, former UK Foreign Secretary
- Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington, English businessman, son of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, former UK Foreign Secretary
- Rupert Cawthorne, English professional footballer
- Rupert Davies, English actor
- Rupert Evans, English actor
- Rupert Everett, English actor
- Rupert Friend, English actor
- Rupert Gould, lieutenant-commander in the British Royal Navy, scientist, author and radio personality
- Rupert Graves, English actor
- Rupert Gregson-Williams, movie score composer
- Rupert Grint, English actor
- Rupert Gwynne, English Conservative Party politician and MP
- Rupert Price Hallowes, World War I Victoria Cross recipient
- Rupert Hine, British Musician, Record Producer
- Rupert Holmes, British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author.
- Rupert Jeffcoat, Scottish musician
- Rupert Keegan, English Formula One driver
- Rupert, King of Germany, German King
- Blessed Rupert Mayer
- Rupert Moon Welsh rugby international player
- Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media magnate
- Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
- Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley, British hereditary peer, Member of the House of Lords
R–S
- Prince Rupert of the Rhine, soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman, colonial governor and amateur artist during the 17th century, one of the principal commanders of Wars of the Three Kingdoms, First English Civil War and Battle of Marston Moor
- Rupert Richardson, American Civil Rights activist
- Saint Rupert of Salzburg
- Rupert Sanders, English film director
- Rupert Sandilands 1868–1946), English international footballer
- Rupert Schenk, German bobsledder
- Rupert Scholz, German politician who served as 9th Minister of Defence of Germany
- Rupert Sheldrake, English professor, biologist and lecturer
- Rupert Shephard, English painter, illustrator and art teacher
- Rupert Shoobridge, Australian politician
- Rupert Shrive, English artist
- Rupert Simonian, British actor with Canadian dual citizenship
- Rupert Sloman, New Zealand cricketer
- Rupert de Smidt, South African cricketer
- Rupert Smith, KCB, DSO & Bar, OBE, QGM, British Army officer, author of The Utility of Force
- Rupert Smith (American football), American football and baseball player
- Rupert Smith (novelist), American-born English author
- Rupert Soames OBE, British businessman, CEO of the outsourcing company Serco
- Rupert Speir, British Conservative Party politician and MP
- Rupert Spira, English studio potter
- Rupert Stadler, German business executive and chairman of the Vorstand of Audi AG
- Charles Rupert Stockard, American anatomist and zoologist
- Rupert Gordon Strutt, the Anglican Bishop of Stockport from 1965 to 1984
- Rupert Max Stuart, Indigenous Australian convicted of murder in 1959
T–Z
- Rupert Taylor, professor of political studies in Johannesburg
- J. Rupert Thompson, director and producer of reality television
- Rupert Thomson FRSL, English author
- Rupert Thorneloe, MBE, British Army officer killed in action in Afghanistan
- Timothy Rupert Thorogood, Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands 2008–2012
- Rupert von Trapp, eldest son of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp
- Rupert Trimmingham, corporal in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II
- Wallace Rupert Turnbull, New Brunswick engineer and inventor
- Rupert Vansittart, English character actor
- Rupert Wagner, German sprint canoeist
- Rupert Wainwright, English film and TV director, writer, and actor
- Rupert Webb, English cricketer
- Rupert Wegerif, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter in England
- Rupert Weinstabl, Austrian sprint canoeist
- Rupert Mearse Wells, speaker of the Legislature of Ontario
- Rupert Wertheim, Australian tennis player
- Rupert Whitaker, psychiatrist, immunologist, patient-advocate
- Rupert Wilson Wigmore, PC, Canadian politician
- Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer
- Rupert Wilkinson, British historian
- Rupert Williamson (furniture designer), furniture designer
- Rupert Wills, Australian rules footballer
- Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, British journalist
- Rupert Worker, played first-class cricket in New Zealand
- Rupert Wyatt, English screenwriter, director, and producer
- Rupert Young, English actor
Surname
- The Rupert family, a billionaire family from Stellenbosch, South Africa or members of that family:
- *Anton Rupert
- *Johann Rupert, son of Anton Rupert
- Bob Rupert, former college basketball head coach
- David Rupert, former American FBI/British intelligence agent
- Franke Rupert, Austrian graphic and engraver
- G. G. Rupert, American Adventist pastor and writer
- Jeff Rupert, Yamaha performing artist, record producer, saxophonist, professor
- Joe Rupert, American college football, basketball, and track athlete and coach
- Michael Rupert, American actor, singer, director and composer
- Nura Rupert, Australian Aboriginal artist from north-west South Australia
- Robert D. Rupert, American philosopher and professor
- Rona Rupert née Davel, South African author
- Thierry Rupert, French basketball player
- Wilhelm Ruppert, German Nazi SS officer and the third commandant of Warsaw concentration camp
Fictional characters
- Rupert Baxter, fictional character in the Blandings stories by P. G. Wodehouse
- Rupert Bear, a cartoon bear created by Mary Tourtel
- Rupert of Hentzau, the villainous henchman of the king's usurper, Black Michael, in Anthony Hope's novels, The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau
- Rupert, the squirrel in the 1950 Christmas film The Great Rupert
- Rupert Giles, watcher on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- Rupert Campbell-Black, the central character in the Rutshire Chronicles series by Jilly Cooper
- Rupert Thorne, fictional character, a crime boss and enemy of Batman in the DC Comics universe
- Rupert T. Waxflatter, the mentor of the future detective Sherlock Holmes, created for the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes
- Rupert Pupkin, the anti-hero in the 1983 film The King of Comedy
- Rupert Campion, the son of the gentleman detective Albert Campion in Margery Allingham's eponymous series
- Rupert, stuffed teddy bear owned by cartoon character Stewie Griffin
- Rupert, one of the narrator’s aliases in the 1999 film Fight Club.
- Rupert, Prince of the West and protagonist of Gimlet Media's The Two Princes
- Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, from Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore
- Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, the alien main antagonist of Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise; his real given name was revealed to be "Rupert" in the Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Nosy"