Rudy

This article is about the name. For other uses, see Rudy (disambiguation).

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

• Rudolf Rudy Andeweg (born 1952), Dutch political scientist
• Rudolf Rudi Assauer (1944–2019), German football manager and player
• Rudolf Rudy Ballieux (1930–2020), Dutch immunologist
• Rudi Carrell (1934–2006), Dutch television entertainer
• Rudy Cerami (born 1988), American football player
• 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
• Rüdiger Rudi Dornbusch (1942–2002), German economist
• Alfred Willi Rudolf Rudi Dutschke (1940–1979), the most prominent spokesperson of the 1960s German student movement
• Rudy Florio (born 1950), Canadian football player
• Jonathan Rudy Ford (born 1994), American football player
• Val 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
• Rudolf Rudi Gernreich (1922–1985), Austrian-born American fashion designer
• Rudolph 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
• Rudolph Rudy LaRusso (1937–2004), American basketball player
• Rudy Linka (born 1960), Czech-American jazz guitarist
• Rudy Pankow (born 1998), American actor
• Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger (born 1948), American football player, motivational speaker, and inspiration for the film Rudy
• Rudolph Rudy Sikich (1921–1998), American National Football League player
• Rudolf Rudi Skácel (born 1979), Czech footballer
• Rudy Trouvé (born 1967), Belgian musician
• Rudy Turk (1927–2007), American museum director, curator, painter
• Hubert Rudy Vallée (1901–1986), American singer, actor and bandleader, one of the first modern pop stars
• Rudolf Rudi Vis (1941–2010), Dutch-born British politician and Member of Parliament
• Rudolf 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 Widodo (born 1983), Indonesian footballer
• Rudolph Rudy Wiedoeft (1893–1940), American saxophonist
• Preston Rudolph Rudy York (1913–1970), American Major League Baseball player
• Rudi Ying (born 1998), Chinese ice hockey player
• Albert Rudolph (1928–1973), American entrepreneur and Hindu spiritual teacher

Alias or stage name

• Rudy (footballer), Angolan footballer born Carlos Wilson Cachicote da Rocha (born 1989)
• 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)

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
• 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, Abby's stepbrother on Sesame Street. He is performed by Frankie Cordero.
• Rudy, from The Book Thief
• Rudi van DiSarzio, a psychedelic monk in The Mighty Boosh
• Rudi Gunn, in the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by novelist Clive Cussler
• Rudeus Greyrat, the main character of the Japanese light novel Mushoku Tensei
• Rudy Huxtable, in the American sitcom The Cosby Show
• Rudy Tabootie, in the Animated series ChalkZone
• Rudy Jones, the best-known incarnation of the Parasite (comics), a DC Comics villain
• Rudy Pipilo, a gangster in the American drama series The Deuce
• 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 (Pokémon), in season two of the Pokémon anime
• 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
• Rudy Ransom, a Starfleet captain in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager ("Equinox (Star Trek: Voyager)")
• Regular-Sized Rudy (born Rudolph Stieblitz), a supporting character in the animated series Bob's Burgers

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film

• Rudy (film), a 1993 American biographical sports film directed by David Anspaugh and starring Sean Astin.
• Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, a 2003 American television film starring James Woods as former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.

See also

• Rudolph (name)
• Jan Bytnar nom de guerre "Rudy"