# Raoul

Raoul is a French variant of the male given name Ralph or Rudolph.
Raoul may also refer to:

## Given name

* Raoul André (1916–1992), French director and screenwriter
* Raoul Anglès (1887–1967), French politician
* Raoul Aragon, Filipino film actor
* Raoul Aslan (1886–1958), Austrian theater actor of Greek-Armenian ancestry
* Raoul Auernheimer (1876–1948), Austrian jurist and writer
* Raoul Baicu (born 2000), Romanian footballer
* Raoul Bardac (1881–1950), French classical composer and pianist
* Raoul Barouch (1916–2006), Tunisian fencer
* Raoul Barré (1874–1932), Canadian/American cartoonist, animator, and painter
* Raoul Barrière (1928–2019), French rugby union player and coach
* Raoul de Beauvais, 13th-century French poet
* Raoul Bedoc, French table tennis player
* Raoul Bellanova (born 2000), Italian footballer
* Raoul Bénard (1881–1961), French sculptor
* Raoul Bensaude (1866–1938), French-Portuguese physician
* Raoul Berger (1901–2000), American legal scholar
* Raoul Bhaneja (born 1974), English-Canadian actor, musician, writer and producer
* Raoul Billerey (1920–2010), French actor and stuntman
* Raoul Biltgen (born 1974), Luxembourgish actor and writer.
* Raoul Björkenheim (born 1956), Finnish-American jazz guitarist
* Raoul Blanchard (1877–1965), French geographer
* Raoul Bleuse (1895–1984), French politician
* Raoul de Boigne (1862–1949), French sport shooter
* Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre (1839–1919), French Army general
* Raoul Borra (1896–1988), French politician
* Raoul Bortoletto (1925–2003), Italian footballer
* Raoul Bossy (1894–1975), Romanian diplomat
* Raoul Bott (1923–2005), Hungarian-American mathematician
* Raoul Boucher, French racing cyclist
* Raoul Boucke (born 1975), Surinamese-Dutch civil servant and politician
* Raoul Bova (born 1971), Italian actor
* Raoul le Breton (c. 1270–1320), grammarian and philosopher
* Raoul Bricard (1870–1943), French engineer and mathematician
* Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu (died 1344), French Constable
* Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu (1315–1350), French Constable
* Raoul Cabrol (1895–1956), French caricaturist
* Raoul Calas (1899–1978), French politician
* Raoul G. Cantero III (born 1960), Spanish-born American lawyer and judge
* Raoul de Caours (died 1354), Breton knight
* Raoul Carton (1879–1934), French philosopher
* Raoul Casadei (1937–2021), Italian bandleader, composer and musician
* Raoul Castex (1878–1968), French Navy admiral and military theorist
* Raoul Caudron (1883–1958), French football coach
* Raoul Cauvin (1938–2021), Belgian comics author
* Raoul Cédras (born 1949), Haitian military officer
* Raoul I of Clermont (bef. 1140—1191), French nobleman
* Raoul II of Clermont (c. 1245–1302), Constable of France
* Raoul Clifford, pseudonym of English composer Albert Ketèlbey (1875–1959)
* Raoul Combes (1883–1964), French botanist, plant physiologist, and science historian
* Raoul A. Cortez (1905–1971), Mexican–American media executive
* Raoul I, Lord of Coucy (c. 1134–1191), French nobleman and Crusader
* Raoul II, Lord of Coucy (died 1250), French nobleman and Crusader
* Raoul Coulon (born 1995), Vanuatuan footballer
* Raoul Courbin (1926–1950s), French footballer
* Raoul Coutard (1924–2016), French cinematographer
* Raoul Couvert (1903–1983), French ice hockey player
* Raoul Curiel (1913–2000), French archaeologist, Egyptologist and orientalist
* Raoul da Luz (1892–1988), Hong Kong lawn bowler
* Raoul Daddo-Langlois (1922–1943), British World War II flying ace
* Raoul Dandurand (1861–1942), Canadian politician
* Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie (1881–1967), Belgian sportsman and soldier
* Raoul Dautry (1880–1951), French engineer, business leader and politician
* Raoul d'Avranches (died 1006), French bishop
* Raoul Degryse (1912–1993), Belgian boxer
* Raoul De Keyser (1930–2012), Belgian painter
* Raoul de Navery, pseudonym of French novelist Madame Chervet (1829–1885)
* Raoul de Thuin (1890–1975), Belgian-Mexican stamp forger and dealer
* Raoul de Vitry (1895–1977), French aristocrat and business executive
* Raoul de Warren (1905–1992), French writer, historian, genealogist and lawyer
* Raoul del Mar (born 1965), Filipino physician and former politician
* Raoul Desribes (1856–1940), French Jesuit archaeologist
* Raoul Dgvareli (born 1965), Tajikistani wrestler
* Raoul Diagne (1910–2002), French footballer
* Raoul du Bisson (1812–1890), French aristocrat and adventurer
* Raoul Pene Du Bois (1914–1985), American costume and set designer
* Raoul du Gardier (1871–1952), French painter
* Raoul du Roveray (1879–1940), English badminton player
* Raoul du Toit, Zimbabwean environmentalist
* Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), French painter
* Raôul Duguay (born 1939), Canadian artist, poet, musician, and political activist
* Raoul Echard (1883–1922), French World War I flying ace
* Raoul Esseboom (born 1992), Dutch footballer
* Raoul Fahlin (born 1966), Swedish cyclist
* Raoul Felder (born 1944), American divorce lawyer and writer
* Raoul Fernandes, Canadian poet
* Raoul Fila , Romanian Kickboxer
* Raoul Auger Feuillet (c. 1660–1710), French dance notator, publisher and choreographer
* Raoul of France (c. 890–936), King of West Francia
* Raoul Heinrich Francé (1874–1943), Austro-Hungarian botanist, microbiologist and philosopher
* Raoul Franklin (1935–2021), British physicist
* Raoul Fristeau (1888–1964), French fencer
* Raoul Garrard (1897–1977), New Zealand cricketer
* Raoul de Gaucourt (c. 1370–1461), French soldier and statesman
* Raoul Gehringer (1971–2018), Austrian choir director and composer
* Raoul Girardet (1917–2013), French historian
* Raoul Giraudo (1932–1995), French footballer
* Raoul Glaber (985–1047), Benedictine chronicler
* Raoul de Godewaersvelde (1928–1977), French singer
* Raoul Got (1900–1955), French rugby union player
* Raoul Gradis (1861–1943), French painter, composer and shipowner
* Raoul Grassilli (1924–2010), Italian actor
* Raoul Grimoin-Sanson (1860–1941), French inventor, engineer, and cinema pioneer
* Raoul Gueguen (born 1947), French modern pentathlete
* Raoul de Guînes (c. 992–1036), French nobleman
* Raoul Gunsbourg (1860–1955), Romanian opera director and composer
* Raoul Hafner (1905–1980), Austrian-born British helicopter pioneer and engineer
* Raoul Hausmann (1886–1971), Austrian artist and writer
* Raoul Hedebouw (born 1977), Belgian politician
* Raoul Heertje (born 1963), Dutch stand-up comedian
* Raoul Heide (1888–1978), Norwegian fencer
* Raoul Heilbronner (died 1941), German art dealer
* Raoul Henar (born 1972), Dutch footballer
* Raoul Henkart (1907–1955), Belgian fencer
* Raoul Hoffman, Hungarian-American aerospace engineer
* Raoul de Houdenc (c. 1165–c. 1230), French author
* Raoul Hunter (1926–2018), Canadian sculptor and caricaturist
* Raoul Hurtubise (1882–1955), Canadian politician
* Raoul Hyman (born 1996), South African racing driver
* Raoul Hynckes (1893–1973), Dutch painter
* Raoul Jarry (1885–1930), Canadian politician
* Raoul Jobin (1906–1974), Canadian operatic tenor
* Raoul Josset (1892–1957), French-born American sculptor
* Raoul Kenne (born 1994), Cameroonian footballer
* Raoul Koczalski (1884–1948), Polish pianist and composer
* Raoul Kopelman (1933–2023), American chemist and nanotechnologist
* Raoul Korner (born 1974), Austrian basketball coach
* Raoul Korty (1889–1944), Austrian-Jewish journalist and photography collector
* Raoul Kouakou (born 1980), Ivorian former footballer
* Raoul Kraushaar (1908–2001), American composer
* Raoul Kurvitz (born 1961), Estonian artist, musician and actor
* Raoul Weston La Barre (1911–1996), American anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and drug researcher
* Raoul Albert La Roche (1889–1965), Swiss banker and art collector
* Raoul Lachenal (1885–1956), French potter
* Raoul Lambert (born 1944), Belgian footballer
* Raoul Lamourdedieu (1877–1953), French sculptor and medalist
* Raoul Larson (born 1984), Namibian rugby union player
* Raoul Last (born 2000), Dutch footballer
* Raoul Laparra (1876–1943), French composer
* Raoul Lefèvre, 15th-century French writer
* Raoul Le Mat (1875–1947), American film director and ice hockey coach
* Raoul Lesueur (1912–1981), French cyclist
* Raoul Lévy (1922–1966), French film producer, writer and director
* Raoul Lignon (1894–1973), French modern pentathlete
* Raoul Loé (born 1989), Cameroonian-French footballer
* Raoul Lufbery (1885–1918), French flying ace in World War I
* Raoul I of Lusignan (1160s–1219), French nobleman and Crusader
* Raoul II of Lusignan (1200–1246), French nobleman
* Raoul Magrin-Vernerey (1892–1964), French general
* Raoul Mal (born 2000), Romanian footballer
* Raoul Manselli (1917–1984), Italian historian
* Raoul Manuel (born 1994), Filipino youth activist and politician
* Raoul Marco (1892–1971), French actor
* Raoul Martinez (1876–1974), French artist
* Raoul of Mérencourt (died 1225), Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
* Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard (1848–1914), Portuguese engineer
* Raoul Meyer (1892–1970), French businessman and Resistance fighter
* Raoul Middleman (1935–2021), American painter
* Raoul Millais (1901–1999), English painter and sportsman
* Raoul Minot (1893–1945), French photographer
* Raoul Moat (1973–2010), English fugitive and gunman at the centre of the 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt
* Raoul Mollet (1912–2002), Belgian modern pentathlete
* Raoul Moretti (1893–1954), French film score composer
* Raoul Mulder, Australian ornithologist and evolutionary ecologist
* Raoul Naroll (1920–1985), Canadian-American anthropologist
* Raoul Nehme (born 1956), Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade
* Raoul II de Nesle (died 1160), French nobleman
* Raoul III de Nesle (died 1235), French nobleman
* Raoul de Neuville (died 1221), French cardinal, bishop, and diplomat
* Raoul Ngadrira (born 1989), Belgian footballer
* Raoul Nordling (1882–1962), Swedish-French businessman and diplomat
* Raoul Owens (born 1994), British racing driver
* Raoul Palmer (1904–1985), French gynecologist
* Raoul Palmgren (1912–1995), Finnish writer
* Raoul Pantin (1943–2015), Trinidad and Tobago journalist, editor, poet and playwright
* Raoul Paoli (1887–1960), French athlete and actor
* Raoul Peeters (born 1947), Belgian football manager
* Raoul Peck (born 1953), Haitian filmmaker
* Raoul Péret (1870–1942), French lawyer and politician
* Raoul Petouille (1894–1978), French racing cyclist
* Raoul Petretta (born 1997), German/Italian footballer
* Raoul-Pierre Pictet (1846–1929), Swiss physicist
* Raoul Pleskow (1930–2022), Austrian-born American composer
* Raoul Ploquin (1900–1992), French film producer, production manager and screenwriter
* Raoul Plus (1882–1958), French Jesuit priest and author
* Raoul Poliakin (1917–1981), Egyptian-American orchestral arranger and conductor
* Raoul Ponchon (1848–1937), French poet
* Raoul Poulin (1900–1975), Canadian politician
* Raoul Prandi (born 1969), French handball player
* Raoul Pugno (1852–1914), French composer, teacher, organist and pianist
* Raoul Rémy (1919–2002), French cyclist
* Raoul Retzer (1919–1974), Austrian actor
* Raoul Rigault (1846–1871), French journalist and revolutionary
* Raoul A. Robinson (1928–2014), British-Canadian botanist
* Raoul Rodriguez (born 1963), American rower
* Raoul Ronsmans (born 1950), Belgian field hockey player
* Raoul Roussel (1389–1452), French churchman and Archbishop of Rouen
* Raoul de Saint-Omer (died 1220), Prince of Galilee
* Raoul Salan (1899–1984), French Army general
* Raoul Sarrazin (1938–2020), Canadian boxer
* Raoul Savoy (born 1973), Spanish-Swiss football coach
* Raoul Schrott (born 1964), Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality
* Raoul Serres (1881–1971), French illustrator and printmaker
* Raoul Servais (1928–2023), Belgian filmmaker, animator, and comics artist
* Raoul Shungu (born 1958), Congolese football manager
* Raoul Sinier, French graphic designer and musician
* Raoul de Soissons (c. 1210–1270), French nobleman and Crusader
* Raoul Șorban (1912–2006), Romanian writer and artist
* Raoul II Sores (died 1282), French Marshal and Crusader
* Raoul Stojsavljevic (1887–1930), Austro-Hungarian World War I flying ace
* Raoul Suhaimi (born 2005), Singaporean footballer
* Raoul Taisson, 10th-century Norman warrior
* Raoul Thiercelin (1898–1988), French rugby union player
* Raoul Toché (1850–1895), French playwright and journalist
* Raoul II of Tosny (1027–1102), Norman nobleman
* Raoul III of Tosny (1079–1126), Norman nobleman
* Raoul Tranchirer, pseudonym of German writer, poet, and artist Ror Wolf (1932–2020)
* Raoul Trujillo (born 1955), American actor, dancer, choreographer and theater director
* Raoul of Turenne or Saint-Raoul, archbishop of Bourges, 840–866
* Raoul Ubac (1910–1985), French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver
* Raoul Üksvärav (1928–2016), Estonian economist and politician
* Raoul III of Valois (died 1038), French count
* Raoul IV of Valois (c. 1025–1074), French count
* Raoul Van Caenegem (1927–2018), Belgian legal historian
* Raoul Van Overstraeten (1885–1977), Belgian general
* Raoul Vaneigem (born 1934), Belgian writer
* Raoul de Varneville (died 1191), Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Lisieux
* Raoul Vazquez (born 1997), Spanish singer-songwriter and musician
* Raoul (founder of Vaucelles Abbey) or Saint Raoul
* Raoul Verlet (1857–1923), French sculptor and art professor
* Raoul I of Vermandois (died 1152), French count
* Raoul Villain (1885–1936), French nationalist and assassin of Jean Jaurès
* Raoul Gregory Vitale (1928–2003), Syrian musicologist
* Raoul Voss (born 1983), German football coach
* Raoul Wallenberg (1912–disappeared 1945), Swedish humanitarian
* Raoul Walsh (1887–1980), American film director
* Raoul Warocqué (1870–1917), Belgian industrialist
* Raoul Weckbecker (1898–1978), Luxembourgian bobsledder and skier
* Raoul Weil (born 1959), Swiss banker
* Raoul Weiler (1938–2019), Belgian engineer
* Raoul White (born 1972), Dutch politician
* Raoul Whitfield (1896–1945), American fiction writer
* Raoul, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

## Surname

* Raoul (Byzantine family), Byzantine aristocratic family of Norman descent
** Alexios Raoul (died c. 1258), Byzantine general
** John Raoul Petraliphas (died c. 1274), Byzantine noble and military commander
** Manuel Raoul, Byzantine official
** Manuel Komnenos Raoul, Byzantine aristocrat and official, son of Alexios Raoul
** Theodora Raoulaina (c. 1240–1300), Byzantine noblewoman, nun and scholar
* Alfred Raoul (1938–1999), President of the Republic of the Congo
* Dale Raoul (born 1955), American actress
* Daniel Raoul (born 1941), French politician
* Émilienne Raoul (born 1945), Congolese politician, wife of Alfred Raoul
* Étienne Fiacre Louis Raoul (1815–1852), French naval surgeon and naturalist
* Fanny Raoul (1771–1833), French feminist writer, journalist, philosopher and essayist; sister of Jean-Marie Raoul
* Jean-Marie Raoul (1766–1837), French lawyer, musician
* Kwame Raoul (born 1964), American politician and 42nd Attorney General of Illinois
* Max Raoul (c.1770–1839), French playwright
* Ménaïc Raoul, Canadian film and commercial producer

## Fictional characters

* Bushman (character) (full name Raoul Bushman), a Marvel Comics character
* Raoul de Cambrai, title character of a French epic poem
* Raoul CaRoule from the 2011 animated film Cars 2
* Viscount Raoul de Chagny, character in The Phantom of the Opera
* Raoul Courvosier, character in the Honorverse
* Raoul Diop, son of protagonist Assane Diop in the Netflix French TV series Lupin
* Raoul Duke, a recurring character and author surrogate of writer Hunter S. Thompson
* Raoul of Goldenlake, a character in the works of Tamora Pierce
* Raoul Robideux, one of the main characters of the French–Canadian web series Tetes a Claques
* Raoul Silva, the main antagonist in the 2012 film Skyfall, played by Javier Bardem
* Raoul, one of the main characters of the 2010 animation A Monster in Paris

## Places

* Raoul, Georgia, United States
* Raoul Island in the Pacific Ocean
* Cape Raoul, Tasmania

## Other

* All pages with titles containing Raoul
* Raoul and the Kings of Spain, a 1995 studio album by British group Tears for Fears
** "Raoul and the Kings of Spain" (song), the title track from the album
* Super Raoul, an LP by Fishtank Ensemble
* "Raoul" (song), a 2006 single by indie band The Automatic
** Raoul (EP), an EP by The Automatic
* Eating Raoul, 1982 American black comedy film
** Eating Raoul (musical), a 1992 musical
* An Evening with Raoul, Philippine variety/talk show hosted by Raoul Imbach