Have you ever realized how many famous people named Rudolf there are? We put together this list of celebrities named Rudolf to show that Rudolfs have a lot of good representation for their names. Some of the famous Rudolfs on this list might go by Rudolph, so this list also includes famous people named Rudolph. From actors named Rudolf to athletes named Rudolf, this list should include the most notable people whose name is Rudolf. This list includes well-known Rudolfs like pioneering movie heartthrob Rudolph Valentino, German Nazi politician Rudolf Hess, and Austrian philosopher, architect, and esoteric mind Rudolf Steiner.
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Rudolph Valentino Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, professionally known as Rudolph Valentino, was an Italian-born American actor who starred in several well-known ...more
Rudolf Hess Rudolf Walter Richard Heß, also spelled Hess, was a prominent politician in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, he served in this position until 1941, when ...more
Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary ...more
Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern dance, one of the most celebrated of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, ...more
Rudolf Höss Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was a Nazi lieutenant colonel in the Schutzstaffel and the longest serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II. ...more
Rudolf Peierls Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE was a German-born British physicist. Rudolf Peierls had a major role in Britain's nuclear programme, but he also had a role in many modern sciences. His obituary in ...more
Rudolf Carnap Rudolf Carnap was a German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical
Rudolf Diesel Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine. Diesel was the subject of the 1942 film Diesel.
Rudolph A. Marcus Rudolph Arthur Marcus is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical ...more
Rudolf Christoph Eucken Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide ...more
Rudolf Serkin Rudolf Serkin was a Bohemian-born pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the twentieth century.
Rudolf Schenker Rudolf Schenker is a German guitarist and founding member of hard rock band Scorpions, being the rhythm/lead guitarist and one of the main songwriters of the band.
Rudolph Walker Rudolph Walker, OBE, is a Trinidadian character actor, best known for his roles on television. He was the first black actor to appear in a major British TV series, his breakthrough role as Bill ...more
Rudolf Bultmann Rudolf Karl Bultmann was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg. He was one of the major figures of early 20th century biblical studies and a ...more
Rudolf Firkušný Rudolf Firkušný was a Czech-born, Czech-American classical pianist.
Rudolf Koelman Rudolf Koelman is a Dutch violinist born in Amsterdam in 1959 and is a professor at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland.
Rudolf Martin Rudolf Martin is a German actor working mainly in the U.S. He first appeared in off-Broadway productions and then moved on to extensive TV and film work. He has made guest appearances on ...more
Rudolf Brandt Rudolf Hermann Brandt was a German SS officer from 1933 to 1945 and a civil servant. A lawyer by profession, Brandt was Personal Administrative Officer to the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich ...more
Rudolf Windisch Leutnant Rudolf Friedrich Otto Windisch was a World War I fighter ace credited with 22 victories.
Rudolph Ganz Rudolph Ganz was a Swiss-born American pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator.
Rudolf Berthold Hauptmann Oskar Gustav Rudolf Berthold, commonly known as Rudolf Berthold, was a German flying ace of World War I. Between 1916 and 1918, he shot down 44 enemy planes—16 of them while flying ...more
Rudolf Dreikurs Rudolf Dreikurs was an American psychiatrist and educator who developed psychologist Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into a pragmatic method for understanding the purposes of ...more
Rudolf Pesch Rudolf Pesch (1936-2011) was a German theologian and historian. Born in Bonn [Germany] in 1936, Pesch studied at the University of his native town. Since 1970, he was first Professor of Biblical ...more
Rudolf E. Kálmán Rudolf Emil Kálmán is a Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a ...more
Rudolf Vrba Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba is known for having escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, in April 1944 at the height of the Holocaust, and for having provided some of ...more
Rudolph Schindler Rudolph Michael Schindler was an Austrian-born American architect whose most important works were built in or near Los Angeles during the early to mid-twentieth century. Although he worked and ...more
Rudolf Mössbauer Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics. This ...more
Rudolf Arnheim Rudolf Arnheim was a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the ...more
Rudolf Ising Rudolph Ising was a film director, film producer, cinematographer and animator.
Rudolph Cartier Rudolph Cartier was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s ...more
Rudolf Kompfner Rudolf Kompfner was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube. Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents. He was originally trained as an ...more
Rudolf Jansen Rudolf Jansen is a Dutch pianist, who studied piano, organ and harpsichord simultaneously at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. His teachers were Nelly Wagenaar, his father Simon C. Jansen, Felix ...more
Rudolf Kárpáti Rudolf Kárpáti was a fencer from Hungary, who won six gold medals in sabre at four Olympic Games. He also won seven gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the World ...more
Rudolph Moshammer Rudolph Moshammer was a German fashion designer. He was murdered at the age of 64 in the Grünwald suburb of Munich, Germany.
Rudolf Otto Rudolf Otto was an eminent German Lutheran theologian and scholar of comparative religion.
Rudolf Wittkower Rudolf Wittkower was a German-American art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture.
Rudolf Jung Rudolf Jung was an instrumental force and agitator of German Bohemian National Socialism and, later on, became a member of the Nazi Party. Rudolf Jung was born in Plasy and went to school in ...more
Rudolf Buchbinder Rudolf Buchbinder is an Austrian classical pianist.
Rudolf Kirchschläger Rudolf Kirchschläger was an Austrian diplomat, politician, judge and, from 1974 to 1986, the eighth President of Austria.
Rudolf Fischer Rudolf Fischer was a German author.
Rudolf Frommer Rudolf Frommer was a Hungarian weapon designer. He was raised to the Hungarian nobility with the pre-name 'fegyverneki' by Franz Joseph I for his achievements in weapons design. He had over 100 ...more
Rudolf Forster Rudolf Forster was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 106 films between 1914 and 1968. His autobiography Das Spiel, mein Leben was published by Propyläen-Verlag in 1967. He was born in ...more
Rudolph Isley Rudolph Bernard "Rudy" Isley is an American singer-songwriter and is one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers.
Rudolf Virchow Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health. He is known as ...more
Rudolf Roessler In World War II espionage, Rudolf Roessler was the central figure in the Lucy spy ring. He was a German refugee who had moved to Switzerland in 1933, and was the proprietor of a small publishing ...more
Rudolph Maté Rudolph Maté, born Rudolf Mayer, was a prolific Austro-Hungarian cinematographer, film director and film producer who worked as cameraman and cinematographer in Hungary, Austria, Germany, ...more
Rudolf Seiters Rudolf Seiters is a German politician of the CDU party. From 1989-1991, he was Federal Minister for Special Affairs and the Head of the Office of the German Chancellery. From 1991-1993, he was ...more
