Tudor

The surname Tudor, within the United Kingdom, originates from the Welsh forename Tudur, Old Welsh Tutir, the Welsh equivalent of Gaulish Toutorix and Germanic Theodoric, which was conflated with Tewdwr, Tewdr, the Welsh equivalent of Theodore.
Tudor is also a common first name in Romanian, also equivalent to Theodore. Tudor can also be a surname in Romanian.
The English royal dynasty, the House of Tudor (descended from the Welsh Tudors of Penmynydd), including prominent members:
Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tewdwr), lover or possibly second husband of Catherine of Valois, and grandfather of King Henry VII
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, father of King Henry VII
Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, second son of Owen and Catherine and brother of Edmund, uncle of King Henry VII
Arthur Tudor, eldest son of King Henry VII (predeceased his father)
Margaret Tudor, Queen Consort of Scotland, eldest daughter of King Henry VII
Mary Tudor, Queen of France, latterly Mary Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, second daughter of King Henry VII
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, third son of King Henry VII
Tudor, as a surname, may also refer to:
Adrian Tudor, a Romanian basketball player
Alex Tudor, an English cricketer
Alexandru Tudor, a Romanian football referee
Antony Tudor, a British choreographer
Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a Romanian politician
Cristian Tudor, a Romanian footballer
David Tudor, an American pianist
Edward Tudor-Pole, a British singer
Frank Tudor, an Australian politician
Frederic Tudor (1783–1864), an American entrepreneur known as Boston's "Ice King"
Henri Tudor, a Luxembourgian industrialist and inventor
Henry Hugh Tudor, a British soldier, later police chief in Ireland and then Palestine
Igor Tudor, a Croatian football (soccer) player
Joel Tudor, an American longboard surfer
John Tudor (footballer), an English football (soccer) player
John Tudor (baseball), an American baseball player
Larissa Tudor (d. 1926), a British woman who appeared strikingly similar to Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia but never actually claimed to be the former grand duchess. Many people who knew Larissa strongly suspected that she was the former grand duchess of Russia.
Lukas Tudor (b. 1969), a Chilean football (soccer) player
Sandu Tudor, a Romanian poet and monk
Shane Tudor (b. 1982), an English football (soccer) player
Tasha Tudor (1915–2008), an American illustrator and author of children's books
William Tudor (1750–1819), an Attorney-at-Law who served as Representative of Boston in the Massachusetts General Court, State Senator, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and was a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society
William Tudor (1779–1830), a leading literary figure in Boston and cofounder of the North American Review and the Boston Athenaeum
Will Tudor (b. 1987), an English actor
As a given name:
Tudor Gunasekara
Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Măinescu
Tudor Tănăsescu
Tudor Vladimirescu
Paul Tudor Jones (born 1954), founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation hedge fund

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1779 in reference to the English royal family, from Welsh surname Tewdwr, used of the line of English sovereigns from Henry VII to Elizabeth I, descended from Owen Tudor, who married Catherine, widowed queen of Henry V. Applied from 1815 to a style of architecture prevalent during these reigns. The name is the Welsh form of Theodore.

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Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Margaret Tudor	1489	Scottish Queen consort
2	Owen Tudor	1400	Welsh noble
3	Will Tudor	1987	British actor
4	Elizabeth Tudor	1492	Princess
5	Igor Tudor	1978	Croatian footballer
6	Katherine Tudor	1503	English royal
7	Tasha Tudor	1915	American illustrator and writer
8	Corneliu Vadim Tudor	1949	Romanian politician
9	Frederic Tudor	1783	American businessman
10	Edward Tudor		English prince
11	David Tudor	1926	American pianist and composer
12	Tudor Parfitt	1944	British historian, writer, traveller, broadcaster, adventurer
13	Tudor Arghezi	1880	Romanian writer
14	Tudor Vladimirescu	1780	Romanian politician
15	Fran Tudor	1995
16	Lady Mary Tudor	1673	Illegitimate child of English king
17	Alex Tudor	1977	English cricketer
18	Antony Tudor	1908	British dancer and choreographer
19	Larissa Tudor	1896	Supposed Romanov
20	Tudor Bompa		American academic
21	Henry Hugh Tudor	1871	British Army general
22	Joel Tudor	1976	American surfer
23	Tudor Gheorghe	1945	Romanian singer
24	Tudor Owen	1898	Actor
25	Tudor Vianu	1898	Romanian writer
26	Henri Tudor	1859	Luxembourgian engineer, inventor, and industrialist
27	Frank Tudor	1866	Australian politician and leader of the Labor Party
28	Tudor Gates	1930	British trade unionist
29	Alexandru Tudor	1971	Romanian football referee
30	Tudor Caranfil	1931
31	Radu Tudor	1970	Angajat la televiziunea unui corupt nu jurnalist
32	Tudor Ciuhodaru	1969	Romanian politician
33	Buddy Tudor	1935	American businessman
34	Leigh Tudor	1969	Australian rules footballer
35	Lukas Tudor	1969	Chilean footballer
36	Sandu Tudor	1896	Romanian writer and academic
37	Tudor Davies	1892	British singer
38	Tudor Octavian	1939	Romanian journalist
39	Shane Tudor	1982	English footballer
40	Cristian Tudor	1982	Footballer
41	Tudor Postelnicu	1931	Romanian Interior Minister in 1987 - 1989
42	William Tudor	1779	American diplomat
43	Tudor Giurgiu	1972	Romanian filmmaker
44	Tudor Casapu	1963	Moldovan weightlifter
45	Claudiu Tudor	1985	Romanian footballer
46	Tudor Walters	1868	British politician
47	Eusebiu Tudor	1974	Former association football player from Romania
48	Daniel Tudor	1974	Footballer
49	Dane Tudor	1989	Skier
50	Tudor Chiuariu	1976	Romanian politician
51	Tudor Chirilă	1974	Romanian actor
52	Tudor Istodor	1984	Romanian actor
53	Andy Tudor	1977	Video game designer
54	Tudor Bugnariu	1909
55	Tudor Mușatescu	1903	Romanian writer
56	Tudor Cataraga	1956	Moldovan artist
57	Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins	1903	British politician
58	James Cameron Tudor	1919	Barbadian politician
59	Tudor Băluță	1999
60	Tudor Ganea	1922	American mathematician
61	Owen Frederick Morton Tudor	1900	British army officer
62	Tudor Gunasekara	1935	Sri Lankan diplomat
63	Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor	1863	Royal Navy admiral
64	Tudor Wilkinson	1879
65	Tudor Rickards	1941	British academic
66	Tudor St George Tucker	1862	Australian artist
67	Tudor Stavru
68	Tudor Jenks	1857	American journalist
69	Tudor Sanon	1984	Haitian taekwondo practitioner
70	Rob Tudor	1956	Canadian ice hockey player
71	Tudor Mihail	1984	Romanian footballer
72	Simon W. Tudor	1887	American businessman
73	Gheorghe Tudor	1884	Moldovan politician
74	Tudor Deliu	1955	Member of the Moldovan Parliament
75	Tudor Ratiu	1950	American mathematician
76	Tudor Negru		Moldovan politician
77	Tudor Rees	1880	British politician
78	Tudor Pendiuc	1954
79	Tudor Ciortea	1903	Romanian composer
80	Thomas Tudor	1785	Land agent and artist
81	Tudor Pamfile	1883	Romanian writer
82	Richard Tudor	1948	Cricketer
83	Ștefan Tudor	1943	Romanian rower
84	Tudor Thomas	1893	British ophthalmologist
85	Tudor George	1926
86	Tudor Panțîru	1951	Moldovan judge and politician
87	Tudor Petrov-Popa	1963	Moldovan politician
88	Remus Tudor	1993	Romanian ski jumper
89	Tudor Washington Collins	1898	New Zealand seaman, bushman, photographer, businessman and farmer
90	Graham Tudor	1920	Australian rules footballer
91	Ilie Tudor	1924	Romanian fencer
92	Claud Tudor	1888	English cricketer
93	Samuel Tudor	1769	Connecticut businessman
94	Florian Tudor	1973	Romanian rower
95	Martin Tudor	1959	British writer
96	Elizabeth Tudor (writer)	1978	Azerbaijani writer of jewish origin
97	Tudor Vaughan	1870	British diplomat
98	Tudor Mărăscu	1940
99	Adrian Tudor	1985	Romanian basketball player
100	Roland Tudor	1890	English cricketer
101	Chris Tudor	1975	American hotelier
102	Tudor Dassanayake		Sri Lankan politician
103	Tudor Teodorescu-Braniște	1899	Romanian newspaper editor
104	Tudor Chiriac	1949	Moldovan composer and musician
105	Tudor Morley Griffith	1951	Radiologist
106	Tudor Petruș	1949	Romanian fencer
107	Tudor Ghideanu	1938
108	Ted Tudor	1935	British association football player
109	Billy Tudor	1918	British association football player (1918-1965)
110	John Tudor	1930	British Methodist minister
111	Geoffrey Tudor	1923	Olympic athlete
112	Tudor Țopa	1928
113	Tudor Șoimaru	1898	Romanian literary critic
114	Tudor Mândrușcă	1989	Romanian footballer
115	Tudor Drăganu	1912
116	Ralph A. Tudor	1902	American engineer
117	Tudor Dumitru	1908
118	Tudor Dinu	1978	Romanian philologist
119	Tudor Gunaratne	1966	Sri Lankan cricketer
120	Tudor Popa	1989	Footballer
121	Tudor Darie	1983
122	Tudor Martin	1904	British association football player
123	Bogdan Tudor	1976	Rugby union player
124	Tudor Dumitru Savu	1954
125	Tudor Cristian Jurgiu	1984	Romanian film director
126	Doina-Anca Tudor	1960	Romanian politician
127	Tudor Tănăsescu	1901
128	Laurențiu Tudor
129	Mladen Tudor
130	Marius-Mihail Tudor
131	Tudor Wilson Evans
132	John Owen Tudor	1784
133	Tudor Starciuc	1990	Moldavian association football player
134	Mihai Tudor	1947	Romanian politician
135	Tudor Măinescu	1892
136	Tudor Panțuru	1946
137	Bill Tudor
138	Tudor Gane
139	Darren Tudor		Welsh cyclist
140	Tudor Radu		Romanian politician
141	Beatrice Tudor		Romanian politician
142	Ionica Tudor	1975	Romanian diver
143	Tudor Paraschiva	1919	Romanian association football player
144	Tudor Sireteanu	1943