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
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Rudolf Rudy Andeweg (born 1952), Dutch political scientist
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Rudolf Rudi Assauer (1944–2019), German football manager and player
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Rudolf Rudy Ballieux (1930–2020), Dutch immunologist
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Rudi Carrell (1934–2006), Dutch television entertainer
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Rudy D'Amico (born 1940), American National Basketball Association scout, and former college and professional basketball coach
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Rudy Demotte (born 1963), Belgian politician
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Rudi Dil, birth name of Ruud Gullit (born 1962), Dutch retired football manager and player
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Rudi Dolezal (born 1958), Austrian film director and film producer
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Rüdiger Rudi Dornbusch (1942–2002), German economist
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Alfred Willi Rudolf Rudi Dutschke (1940–1979), the most prominent spokesperson of the 1960s German student movement
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Rudy Florio (born 1950), Canadian football player
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Jonathan Rudy Ford (born 1994), American football player
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Val Rudy Galindo (born 1969), American retired figure skater
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Rudi Garcia (born 1964), French football manager and former player
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Rudy Gay (born 1986), American basketball player
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Rudolf Rudi Gernreich (1922–1985), Austrian-born American fashion designer
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Rudolph Rudy Giuliani (born 1944) former US Associate Attorney General and former Mayor of New York City
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Rudy Gobert (born 1992), French basketball player
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Rudy Haddad (born 1985), French-Israeli football player
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Rudy Horn (1933–2018), German juggler
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Rudy Kennedy (1927–2008), British rocket scientist and Holocaust survivor and activist
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Rudolph Rudy LaRusso (1937–2004), American basketball player
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Rudy Linka (born 1960), Czech-American jazz guitarist
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Rudy Pankow (born 1998), American actor
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Rudy Ruettiger (born 1948), American football player, motivational speaker, and inspiration for the film Rudy
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Rudolph Rudy Sikich (1921–1998), American National Football League player
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Rudolf Rudi Skácel (born 1979), Czech footballer
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Rudy Trouvé (born 1967), Belgian musician
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Rudy Turk (1927–2007), American museum director, curator, painter
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Hubert Rudy Vallée (1901–1986), American singer, actor and bandleader, one of the first modern pop stars
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Rudolf Rudi Vis (1941–2010), Dutch-born British politician and Member of Parliament
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Rudolf Rudi Völler (born 1960), German retired football manager and player
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Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006), Slovak-Jewish biochemist, Auschwitz concentration camp escapee who co-wrote a report of the mass murders being committed there
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Rudi Widodo (born 1983), Indonesian footballer
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Rudolph Rudy Wiedoeft (1893–1940), American saxophonist
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Preston Rudolph Rudy York (1913–1970), American Major League Baseball player
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Rudi Ying (born 1998), Chinese ice hockey player
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Albert Rudolph (1928–1973), American entrepreneur and Hindu spiritual teacher
Alias or stage name
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Jan Bytnar, nom de guerre Rudy (1921–1943), Polish resistance fighter
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Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar (1934–2006)
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Rudy de Mérode, real name Frédéric Martin (1905–?), French collaborator in the Second World War
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Rudy Grayzell, stage name of American rockabilly musician Rudolph Paiz Jimenez (1933–2019)
Surname
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Andrzej Rudy (born 1965), Polish footballer
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Florian Rudy (born 1989), German footballer
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Gherasim Rudi (1907–1982), Prime Minister of the Moldovan SSR
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Henry Rudi (1889–1970), Norwegian huntsman and polar bear hunter
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Joe Rudi (born 1946), American former Major League Baseball player
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Kathy Rudy (born 1956), American women's studies scholar and theologian
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Michał Radziwiłł Rudy (1870–1950), German-Polish diplomat and nobleman
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Mikhail Rudy (born 1953), Russian-French pianist
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Rajiv Pratap Rudy (born 1962), Indian politician
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Ruth Rudy (born 1938), American politician
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Sebastian Rudy (born 1990), German footballer
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Steven Rudy (born 1978), American politician and businessman
Fictional characters
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Rudy, Abby's stepbrother on Sesame Street
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Rudy Steiner, from The Book Thief
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Rudi van DiSarzio, a psychedelic monk in The Mighty Boosh
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Rudi Gunn, in the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by Clive Cussler
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Rudeus Greyrat, the main character of the Japanese light novel Mushoku Tensei
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Rudy Huxtable, in the American sitcom The Cosby Show
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Rudy Jones, the best-known incarnation of the Parasite (comics), a DC Comics villain
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Rudy Pipilo, a gangster in the American drama series The Deuce
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Rudy Tabootie, in the animated series ChalkZone
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Rudy Wade, in the British science fiction TV series Misfits
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Rudy Wells, a scientist in the American TV series The Six Million Dollar Man
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Rudy, a character in season two of the Pokémon anime series
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Rudy, in the 2009 animated film
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R.U.D.I, George Jetson's work computer in the animated TV series The Jetsons
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Baron Rudi, in Austrian humor
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Regular-Sized Rudy (born Rudolph Stieblitz), a supporting character in the animated series Bob's Burgers
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Rudy Cooper, aka Brian Moser in the Dexter television series
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Rudy, a Frankfurt body, who plays a street barrel-organ and is friend of Clara and Heidi in the Heidi television series
Songs
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"Rudy", a 1974 song by Supertramp from their album Crime of the Century
See also