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

Rudy Adrian (born 1965), New Zealand ambient musician
Rudy Andeweg (born 1952), Dutch political scientist
Rudi Assauer (1944–2019), German football manager and player
Rudy Ballieux (1930–2020), Dutch immunologist
Rudy Bowman (1890–1972), American actor
Rudi Čajavec (1911–1942), Yugoslav Partisan pilot and National Hero
Rudi Carrell (1934–2006), Dutch television entertainer
Rudy Clavel (born 1996), Salvadoran footballer
Rudy D'Amico (born 1940), American National Basketball Association scout, and former college and professional basketball coach
Rudy Demotte (born 1963), Belgian politician
Rudi Dil, birth name of Ruud Gullit (born 1962), Dutch retired football manager and player
Rudi Dolezal (born 1958), Austrian film director and film producer
Rudi Dornbusch (1942–2002), German economist
Rudi Dutschke (1940–1979), the most prominent spokesperson of the 1960s German student movement
Rudy Florio (born 1950), Canadian football player
Rudy Ford (born 1994), American football player
Rudy Galindo (born 1969), American retired figure skater
Rudi Garcia (born 1964), French football manager and former player
Rudy Gay (born 1986), American basketball player
Rudi Gernreich (1922–1985), Austrian-born American fashion designer
Rudy Giuliani (born 1944), former US Associate Attorney General and former Mayor of New York City
Rudy Gobert (born 1992), French basketball player
Rudy Haddad (born 1985), French-Israeli football player
Rudy Horn (1933–2018), German juggler
Rudy Kennedy (1927–2008), British rocket scientist and Holocaust survivor and activist
Rudy LaRusso (1937–2004), American basketball player
Rudy Linka (born 1960), Czech-American jazz guitarist
Rudy Pankow (born 1998), American actor
Rudy Ruettiger (born 1948), American football player, motivational speaker, and inspiration for the film Rudy
Rudy Sikich (1921–1998), American National Football League player
Rudi Skácel (born 1979), Czech footballer
Rudi Spring (1962–2025), German composer, pianist and academic
Rudi Tröger (1929–2025), German painter and academic
Rudy Trouvé (born 1967), Belgian musician
Rudy Turk (1927–2007), American museum director, curator, painter
Rudy Vallée (1901–1986), American singer, actor and bandleader, one of the first modern pop stars
Rudi Vis (1941–2010), Dutch-born British politician and Member of Parliament
Rudi Völler (born 1960), German retired football manager and player
Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006), Slovak-Jewish biochemist, Auschwitz concentration camp escapee who co-wrote a report of the mass murders being committed there
Rudi Weissenstein (1910–1992), Israeli photographer
Rudi Widodo (born 1983), Indonesian footballer
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893–1940), American saxophonist
Rudi Ying (born 1998), Chinese ice hockey player
Rudy York (1913–1970), American Major League Baseball player

Alias or stage name

Jan Bytnar, nom de guerre Rudy (1921–1943), Polish resistance fighter
Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar (1934–2006)
Rudy de Mérode, real name Frédéric Martin (1905–?), French collaborator in the Second World War
Rudy Grayzell, stage name of American rockabilly musician Rudolph Paiz Jimenez (1933–2019)
Rudi (spiritual teacher), American entrepreneur and Hindu spiritual teacher Albert Rudolph (1928–1973)

Surname

Andrzej Rudy (born 1965), Polish footballer
Florian Rudy (born 1989), German footballer
Gherasim Rudi (1907–1982), Prime Minister of the Moldovan SSR
Henry Rudi (1889–1970), Norwegian huntsman and polar bear hunter
Joe Rudi (born 1946), American former Major League Baseball player
Kathy Rudy (born 1956), American women's studies scholar and theologian
Michał Radziwiłł Rudy (1870–1950), German-Polish diplomat and nobleman
Mikhail Rudy (born 1953), Russian-French pianist
Rajiv Pratap Rudy (born 1962), Indian politician
Ruth Rudy (born 1938), American politician
Sebastian Rudy (born 1990), German footballer
Steven Rudy (born 1978), American politician and businessman

Fictional characters

Rudy Cooper, aka Brian Moser in the Dexter television series
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
Rudolph "Rudy" Holiday, from the videogame Deltarune
Rudy Huxtable, in the American sitcom The Cosby Show
Rudy Jones, the best-known incarnation of the Parasite (character), a DC Comics villain
Rudy Pipilo, a gangster in the American drama series The Deuce
Rudy Steiner, from The Book Thief
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, Abby's stepbrother on Sesame Street
Rudy, 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 (born Rudolph Stieblitz), a supporting character in the animated series Bob's Burgers
Rudy, a Frankfurt body, who plays a street barrel-organ in the Heidi television series

Rudy

People

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Surname

Fictional characters

See also