Rudolf



Gender:
Origin: German
4234 famous people named Rudolf found on Wikipedia.
2910 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 9448-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 719-th in year 1927
Used in: Armenian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Swedish

Meanings

A male given name, form of Rolf.


Rudolph or Rudolf (French: Rodolphe, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: Rodolfo) or Rodolphe is a male first name, and, less commonly, a surname. It is a Germanic name deriving from two stems: Rod or Hrōð, meaning "fame", and olf meaning "wolf" (see also Hroðulf; cf. Adolf).


From the Germanic name Hrodulf: combine of hrod (fame) and wulf (wolf).

Famous People: 4234 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Rudolf Hess 1894 German Nazi leader
2 Rudolf Höss 1900 German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp
3 Rudolph Nureyev 1938 Dancer, actor
4 Rudolf Steiner 1861 Austrian esotericist
5 Rudolf Virchow 1821 German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician
6 Rudolf Diesel 1858 German inventor and mechanical engineer
7 Rudolf Dassler 1898 German businessman
8 Rudolf Schenker 1948 German guitarist
9 Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 Austrian king
10 Rudolf Wanderone 1913 American pool player
11 Kevin Rudolf 1983 American rock singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer
12 Rudolf Anderson 1927 Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
13 Rudolf Vrba 1924 Slovak doctor
14 Rudolf Carnap 1891 German philosopher
15 Rudolf E. Kálmán 1930 Hungarian-born American electrical engineer
16 Rudolf Diels 1900 First Gestapo chief and protege of Gestapo founder Hermann Göring
17 Rudolf Bultmann 1884 German theologian
18 Rudolf Clausius 1822 German mathematical physicist
19 Rudolf Martin 1967 German actor
20 Rudolf Otto 1869 German theologian
21 Rudolf Lange 1910 SS officer
22 Rudolf Kastner 1906 Austro-Hungarian jurist
23 Rudolph I of Germany 1218 Austrian duke
24 Rudolf Rocker 1873 Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist
25 Rudolf Hrušínský nejmladší 1970 Czech dabing actor and actor
26 Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff 1905 German general
27 Rudolf Caracciola 1901 German/Swiss racecar and motorcycle driver
28 Rudolf von Laban 1879 Choreographer
29 Rudolf Arnheim 1904 German psychologist
30 Rudolf Peierls 1907 Physicist
31 Rudolf Brandt 1909 Deputy to Heinrich Himmler
32 Anna Rudolf 1987 Chess player
33 Rudolf Breuss 1899 Rudolf Breuss
34 Rudolf Hilferding 1877 German politician
35 Rudolf Kowalski 1948 German actor
36 Stefan Rudolf 1974 German actor
37 Rudolf Serkin 1903 American musician
38 Rudolf Schifkorn 1817
39 Rudolf Christoph Eucken 1846 German philosopher
40 David Rudolf 1949 American lawyer
41 Rudolf Waldemar Brem 1948 German actor and film producer
42 Rudolf Mössbauer 1929 German nuclear physicist
43 Rudolf Jaenisch 1942 German geneticist
44 Rudolf Klein-Rogge 1885 German actor
45 Germar Rudolf 1964 German chemist and a convicted Holocaust denier
46 Rudolf Gröger 1954
47 Rudolf Kirchschläger 1915 Austrian diplomat, politician, judge, and eighth President of Austria
48 Rudolf von Jhering 1818 German jurist
49 Rudolf Dreikurs 1897 American austrian-born MD
50 Rudolf Wolters 1903 German architect
51 Rudolf Erich Raspe 1736 German author and scientist
52 Rudolf Schmundt 1896 German general
53 Rudolf Staechelin 1881 Swiss businessman and art collector
54 Rudolf Lipschitz 1832 German mathematician
55 Rudolf Bing 1902 Austrian-American opera impresario
56 Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria 1339 Duke of Austria
57 Rudolf Koch 1876 German Type Designer & Calligrapher
58 Rudolf Buchbinder 1946 Classical pianist
59 Rudolf Schmidt 1886 German general
60 Rudolf von Sebottendorf 1875 German Freemason and founder of the Thule Society
61 Rudolf Fußi 1978
62 Rudolf Friml 1879 Czech composer
63 Christian Rudolf 1965 German actor and voice actor
64 Rudolf August Oetker 1916 Businessman, billionaire
65 Rudolf Witzig 1916 German World War II Fallschirmjäger
66 Rudolf Kjellén 1864 Swedish political scientist
67 Rudolf Krause 1964 German actor
68 Rudolf Brazda 1913 German concentration camp survivor
69 Rudolf Stingel 1956 American artist
70 Rudolf Roubinek 1969 Austrian actor
71 Rudolf Schwarzkogler 1940 Austrian artist
72 Rudolf Flesch 1911 American author
73 Rudolf Borchardt 1877 German poet
74 Rudolf Carl von Slatin 1857 Austrian officer
75 Rudolf Rentschler 1940 German mathematician
76 Rudolf von Alt 1812 Austrian landscape and architectural painter
77 Rudolf Marcuse 1878
78 Rudolf Dreßler 1940 German politician
79 Rudolf Holste 1897 German general
80 Rudolf Augstein 1923 German journalist
81 Rudolf Taschner 1953 Austrian mathematician
82 Rudolf Weigl 1883 Polish biologist
83 Rudolf Uhlenhaut 1906 German engineer
84 Rudolf Wagner 1805 German scientist
85 Rudolf Schuster 1934 Slovak president of the Slovakia, head of Slovak National Council and politician
86 Rudolf Roy 1920 SS officer
87 Rudolf von Urban 1879 Austrian american psychoanalyst
88 Rudolf Lehmann 1914 SS officer
89 Rudolf of Rheinfelden 1025 German anti-king
90 Rudolf Maister 1874 Slovenian writer and general
91 Rudolf Elmer 1955 Swiss banker and activist
92 Rudolf Scharping 1947 German politician
93 Rudolf Barshai 1924 Russian conductor
94 Rudolf I of Bohemia 1281 Austrian duke and king
95 Rudolf von Thadden 1932 German historian
96 Rudolf Sieber 1897 American film producer and farmer
97 Rudolf Kompfner 1909 Austrian-born engineer and physicist
98 Rudolf Breitscheid 1874 German politician
99 Rudolf Duala Manga Bell 1873 Duala rebel king executed during German rule over Cameroon
100 Rudolf Mayer 1947
101 Gergely Rudolf 1985 Association football player
102 Rudolf Hell 1901 German electrical engineer and inventor
103 Rudolf Hickel 1942 German economist
104 Rudolf Batz 1903 SS officer
105 Rudolf Simek 1954 Austrian philologist and Germanist
106 Rudolf Bauer 1889 German artist
107 Rudolf Scholten 1955 Austrian politician
108 Rudolf Bayer 1939 German computer scientist
109 Rudolf Radke 1925 German journalist
110 Rudolf Spanner 1895 German physician
111 Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria 1274 Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine
112 Rudolf Bahro 1935 German politician and writer
113 Rudolf Roessler 1897 German spy for the Soviet UNion
114 Rudolf Beckmann 1910 German SS officer in Sobibor extermination camp
115 Rudolf Bamler 1896 Military leader
116 Rudolf Kempe 1910 German conductor
117 Rudolf Leiding 1914 German businessman
118 Rudolf Berthold 1891 German fighter pilot
119 Rudolf Wittkower 1901 German art historian
120 Rudolf Ismayr 1908 German weightlifter
121 Rudolf Ungváry 1936
122 Rudolf Koppitz 1884 Austrian photographer
123 Rudolf von Bünau 1890 German general and Knight's Cross recipients
124 Rudolf Rahn 1900 German diplomat
125 Rudolf Reder 1881 Belzec extermination camp survivor
126 Rudolf Hauschka 1891 Austrian chemist, businessman and writer
127 Rudolf Jordan 1902 German politician
128 Rudolf Kiszling
129 Rudolf Maison 1854 German sculptor
130 Rudolf Ritter von Otto 1735 Austrian general
131 Rudolf Lonauer 1907 Austrian psychiatrist
132 Rudolf Haag 1922 German physicist
133 Rudolf Alberth Rodja
134 Rudolf Beiswanger 1903 German actor and radio host
135 Rudolf Spielmann 1883 Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer
136 Rudolf II, Duke of Austria 1270 Duke of Austria
137 Rudolf Franz Lehnert 1878 Czech photographer
138 Rudolf Jung 1882 Czechoslovakia member of Czechoslovak national parliament and german nation politician
139 Rudolf Firkušný 1912 Czech pianist
140 Gérard Rudolf 1966 South African actor
141 Rudolf Hillebrecht 1910 German architect
142 Rudolf Petershagen 1901 German politician
143 Rudolf Viest 1890 Czechoslovakia general
144 Rudolf Veiel 1883 German general
145 Rudolf Ebertshäuser 1953 German literary editor
146 Rudolf Weiss 1910 German officer
147 Rudolf Schündler 1906 German actor
148 Rudolf Schock 1915 German tenor
149 Rudolf Margolius 1913 Czechoslovak politician
150 Rudolf Schlichter 1890 German artist
151 Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg 1284 Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and first Elector of Saxony
152 Rudolf Pleil 1924 German serial killer
153 Rudolf E. A. Havenstein 1857 German central bank President
154 Rudolf Oetker 1889
155 Rudolf Harbig 1913 German middle distance runner
156 Rudolf Benario 1908
157 Rudolf Kolisch 1896 Austrian musician
158 Rudolf Hrušínský 1920 Czech actor and director
159 Rudolf Gehring 1948 Austrian politician
160 Rudolf Klausnitzer 1948 Austrian intendant
161 Rudolf Samoylovich 1881 Soviet polar explorer
162 Rudolf Ernst 1854 Austro-French painter
163 Rudolf Mrva 1873
164 Rudolf Jelínek 1892 Czech entrepreneur
165 Rudolf Sloboda 1938 Slovak poet, dramatic, prosaic and children books writer
166 Rudolf Schoenert 1911 German officer and fighter pilot during World War II
167 Rudolf Slánský 1935 Czech dissident, son of Rudolf Slánský
168 Rudolf Hausner 1914 Painter
169 Rudolf Tobias 1873 Estonian composer
170 Rudolf Donath 1932
171 Rudolf Meidner 1914 Swedish economist
172 Rudolf Debiel 1931 German actor and author
173 Rudolf Desenský 1969 Czech etologist and cynologist
174 Rudolf Frank 1920 German fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient
175 Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten 1861 Austrian-Hungarian General and Minister of War
176 Rudolf Wöhrl 1913 German entrepreneur
177 Rudolf Krieg 1927 German actor
178 Rudolf Vierhaus 1922 German historian
179 Rudolf Geiger 1894 German climatologist
180 Rudolf Jakob Camerarius 1665 German botanist and physician
181 Rudolf Rademacher 1913 German flying ace
182 Stanislav Rudolf 1932 Czech educator, scriptwriter and writer
183 Rudolf Hundstorfer 1951 Austrian politician and trade unionist
184 Rudolf Perešin 1958 Croatian fighter pilot
185 Rudolf Otto Wiemer 1905 German author
186 Rudolf Freiherr von Waldenfels 1895 German General and Knight's Cross recipient
187 Rudolf Herrnstadt 1903 German politician
188 Rudolf Aschenauer 1913 German jurist
189 Rudolf Demme 1894 German general
190 Rudolf Bester 1983 Namibian footballer
191 Rudolf Sieczyński 1879 Austrian composer
192 Rudolf Abel 1868 Bakteriolog
193 Rudolf Koch-Erpach 1886 German general
194 Rudolf Hagelstange 1912 German poet
195 Rudolf Freiherr von Roman 1893 German general and Knight's Cross recipient
196 Rudolf Häusler 1893
197 Rudolf Koller 1828 Swiss painter
198 Rudolf Sprüngli 1816 Swiss entrepreneur
199 Rudolf Kittel 1853 German biblical scholar
200 Rudolf Wulf 1905 German General and Knight's Cross recipient