# Rudy

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This article is about the name. For other uses, see [Rudy (disambiguation)](/source/Rudy_(disambiguation)).

**Rudy** or **Rudi** is a masculine given name, sometimes short for [Rudolf](/source/Rudolf), Rudolph, Rawad, [Rudra](/source/Rudra), [Ruairidh](/source/Ruairidh), or variations thereof, a nickname and a surname which may refer to:

## People

### Given name or nickname

- [Rudy Andeweg](/source/Rudy_Andeweg) (born 1952), Dutch political scientist
- [Rudi Assauer](/source/Rudi_Assauer) (1944–2019), German football manager and player
- [Rudy Ballieux](/source/Rudy_Ballieux) (1930–2020), Dutch immunologist
- [Rudi Carrell](/source/Rudi_Carrell) (1934–2006), Dutch television entertainer
- [Rudy Clavel](/source/Rudy_Clavel) (born 1996), Salvadoran footballer
- [Rudy D'Amico](/source/Rudy_D'Amico) (born 1940), American National Basketball Association scout, and former college and professional basketball coach
- [Rudy Demotte](/source/Rudy_Demotte) (born 1963), Belgian politician
- Rudi Dil, birth name of [Ruud Gullit](/source/Ruud_Gullit) (born 1962), Dutch retired football manager and player
- [Rudi Dolezal](/source/Rudi_Dolezal) (born 1958), Austrian film director and film producer
- [Rudi Dornbusch](/source/Rudi_Dornbusch) (1942–2002), German economist
- [Rudi Dutschke](/source/Rudi_Dutschke) (1940–1979), the most prominent spokesperson of the 1960s German student movement
- [Rudy Florio](/source/Rudy_Florio) (born 1950), Canadian football player
- [Rudy Ford](/source/Rudy_Ford) (born 1994), American football player
- [Rudy Galindo](/source/Rudy_Galindo) (born 1969), American retired figure skater
- [Rudi Garcia](/source/Rudi_Garcia) (born 1964), French football manager and former player
- [Rudy Gay](/source/Rudy_Gay) (born 1986), American basketball player
- [Rudi Gernreich](/source/Rudi_Gernreich) (1922–1985), Austrian-born American fashion designer
- [Rudy Giuliani](/source/Rudy_Giuliani) (born 1944), former US Associate Attorney General and former Mayor of New York City
- [Rudy Gobert](/source/Rudy_Gobert) (born 1992), French basketball player
- [Rudy Haddad](/source/Rudy_Haddad) (born 1985), French-Israeli football player
- [Rudy Horn](/source/Rudy_Horn) (1933–2018), German juggler
- [Rudy Kennedy](/source/Rudy_Kennedy) (1927–2008), British rocket scientist and Holocaust survivor and activist
- [Rudy LaRusso](/source/Rudy_LaRusso) (1937–2004), American basketball player
- [Rudy Linka](/source/Rudy_Linka) (born 1960), Czech-American jazz guitarist
- [Rudy Pankow](/source/Rudy_Pankow) (born 1998), American actor
- [Rudy Ruettiger](/source/Rudy_Ruettiger) (born 1948), American football player, motivational speaker, and inspiration for the film *Rudy*
- [Rudy Sikich](/source/Rudy_Sikich) (1921–1998), American National Football League player
- [Rudi Skácel](/source/Rudi_Sk%C3%A1cel) (born 1979), Czech footballer
- [Rudi Spring](/source/Rudi_Spring) (1962–2025), German composer, pianist and academic
- [Rudi Tröger](/source/Rudi_Tr%C3%B6ger) (1929–2025), German painter and academic
- [Rudy Trouvé](/source/Rudy_Trouv%C3%A9) (born 1967), Belgian musician
- [Rudy Turk](/source/Rudy_Turk) (1927–2007), American museum director, curator, painter
- [Rudy Vallée](/source/Rudy_Vall%C3%A9e) (1901–1986), American singer, actor and bandleader, one of the first modern pop stars
- [Rudi Vis](/source/Rudi_Vis) (1941–2010), Dutch-born British politician and Member of Parliament
- [Rudi Völler](/source/Rudi_V%C3%B6ller) (born 1960), German retired football manager and player
- [Rudolf Vrba](/source/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](/source/Rudi_Widodo) (born 1983), Indonesian footballer
- [Rudy Wiedoeft](/source/Rudy_Wiedoeft) (1893–1940), American saxophonist
- [Rudy York](/source/Rudy_York) (1913–1970), American Major League Baseball player
- [Rudi Ying](/source/Rudi_Ying) (born 1998), Chinese ice hockey player
- [Albert Rudolph](/source/Albert_Rudolph) (1928–1973), American entrepreneur and Hindu spiritual teacher

### Alias or stage name

- [Jan Bytnar](/source/Jan_Bytnar), *nom de guerre* Rudy (1921–1943), Polish resistance fighter
- [Rudi Carrell](/source/Rudi_Carrell), Dutch entertainer born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar (1934–2006)
- [Rudy de Mérode](/source/Rudy_de_M%C3%A9rode), real name Frédéric Martin (1905–?), French collaborator in the Second World War
- [Rudy Grayzell](/source/Rudy_Grayzell), stage name of American rockabilly musician Rudolph Paiz Jimenez (1933–2019)

### Surname

- [Andrzej Rudy](/source/Andrzej_Rudy) (born 1965), Polish footballer
- [Florian Rudy](/source/Florian_Rudy) (born 1989), German footballer
- [Gherasim Rudi](/source/Gherasim_Rudi) (1907–1982), Prime Minister of the Moldovan SSR
- [Henry Rudi](/source/Henry_Rudi) (1889–1970), Norwegian huntsman and polar bear hunter
- [Joe Rudi](/source/Joe_Rudi) (born 1946), American former Major League Baseball player
- [Kathy Rudy](/source/Kathy_Rudy) (born 1956), American women's studies scholar and theologian
- [Michał Radziwiłł Rudy](/source/Micha%C5%82_Radziwi%C5%82%C5%82_Rudy) (1870–1950), German-Polish diplomat and nobleman
- [Mikhail Rudy](/source/Mikhail_Rudy) (born 1953), Russian-French pianist
- [Rajiv Pratap Rudy](/source/Rajiv_Pratap_Rudy) (born 1962), Indian politician
- [Ruth Rudy](/source/Ruth_Rudy) (born 1938), American politician
- [Sebastian Rudy](/source/Sebastian_Rudy) (born 1990), German footballer
- [Steven Rudy](/source/Steven_Rudy) (born 1978), American politician and businessman

## Fictional characters

- Rudy, Abby's stepbrother on *[Sesame Street](/source/Sesame_Street)*
- Rudy Steiner, from *[The Book Thief](/source/The_Book_Thief)*
- [Rudi van DiSarzio](/source/Rudi_van_DiSarzio), a psychedelic monk in *The Mighty Boosh*
- Rudi Gunn, in the [Dirk Pitt](/source/Dirk_Pitt) adventure novels by Clive Cussler
- [Rudeus Greyrat](/source/Rudeus_Greyrat), the main character of the Japanese light novel *Mushoku Tensei*
- [Rudy Huxtable](/source/Rudy_Huxtable), in the American sitcom *The Cosby Show*
- Rudy Jones, the best-known incarnation of the [Parasite (character)](/source/Parasite_(character)), a DC Comics villain
- Rudy Pipilo, a gangster in the American drama series *[The Deuce](/source/The_Deuce_(TV_series))*
- [Rudy Tabootie](/source/Rudy_Tabootie), in the animated series *[ChalkZone](/source/ChalkZone)*
- [Rudy Wade](/source/Rudy_Wade), in the British science fiction TV series *Misfits*
- [Rudy Wells](/source/Rudy_Wells), a scientist in the American TV series *[The Six Million Dollar Man](/source/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man)*
- Rudy, a character in season two of the *[Pokémon](/source/Pok%C3%A9mon)* anime series
- Rudy, in the 2009 animated film *[Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs](/source/Ice_Age:_Dawn_of_the_Dinosaurs)*
- R.U.D.I, George Jetson's work computer in the animated TV series *[The Jetsons](/source/The_Jetsons)*
- [Baron Rudi](/source/Baron_Rudi), in Austrian humor
- Regular-Sized Rudy (born Rudolph Stieblitz), a supporting character in the animated series *[Bob's Burgers](/source/Bob's_Burgers)*
- Rudy Cooper, aka [Brian Moser](/source/Brian_Moser_(Dexter)) in the *[Dexter](/source/Dexter_(TV_series))* television series
- Rudy, a Frankfurt body, who plays a street barrel-organ and is friend of Clara and Heidi in the [*Heidi*](/source/Heidi_(2015_TV_series)) television series
- Rudolph "Rudy" Holiday, character from the videogame [Deltarune](/source/Deltarune)

## Songs

- "[A Message to You, Rudy](/source/A_Message_to_You_Rudy)", a 1967 song by [Dandy Livingstone](/source/Dandy_Livingstone), later covered by [The Specials](/source/The_Specials) in 1979
- "Rudy", a 1974 song by Supertramp from their album *[Crime of the Century](/source/Crime_of_the_Century_(album))*

## See also

- [Rudolph (name)](/source/Rudolph_(name))

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