# Dudley (given name)

Dudley is a male given name that means "people's field" and may refer to:

## People

* Dudley Benjafield (1887–1957), British doctor and racing driver
* Dudley Bradley (born 1957), American basketball player
* Dudley Bradstreet (1711–1763), Irish adventurer and secret agent
* Dudley Bradstreet (magistrate) (1648–1702), American magistrate
* Dudley B. Bridgforth Jr. (born 1940), American politician
* Dudley Buck (1839–1909), American composer
* Dudley Carleton (disambiguation), several people
* Dudley Chase (1771–1846), American senator from Vermont
* Dudley Clarke (1899–1974), British army officer
* Dudley Connell (born 1956), American bluegrass singer
* Dudley de Chair (1864–1958), Canadian naval officer and governor of New South Wales
* Dudley DeGroot (1899–1970), American footballer and coach
* Dudley de Silva (1911–1974), Sri Lankan Sinhala educationist
* Dudley Digges (c. 1583–1639), English diplomat and politician
* Dudley Digges (actor) (1879–1947), Irish stage and film actor
* Dudley Doolittle (1881–1957), American politician
* Dudley Evans (1886–1972), English cricketer
* Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671), Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist also known as Dudly Ferbisie
* J. Dudley Goodlette (born 1948), American politician and lawyer
* Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair 1883–1972), British peer, soldier and industrialist
* Dudley Hart (born 1968), American professional golfer
* Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932), American chemist, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* Dudley Hooper (1911–1968), British accountant and early promoter of electronic data processing
* Dudley Mays Hughes (1848–1927), American politician from Georgia
* Darach Ó Catháin (1922-1987), Irish sean-nós singer, also known as Dudley Kane
* Dudley Knowles, Scottish political philosopher and professor
* Dudley Wright Knox (1877-1960), US naval officer and historian
* Dudley J. LeBlanc, American politician and Louisiana state senator
* Dudley Le Souef (1856–1923), Australian ornithologist
* Dudley Moore (1935–2002), English actor and comedian
* Dudley Murphy (1897–1968), American film director
* Dudley Nichols (1895–1960), American screenwriter
* Dudley Nourse (1910–1981), South African cricketer
* Dudley Perkins (disambiguation), several people
* Dudley Pope (1925–1997), British writer of nautical fiction and history
* Dudley Pope (cricketer) (1906–1934), English cricketer
* Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
* Dudley Richards (1932–1961), American figure skater
* Dudley Rippon (1892–1963), English cricketer
* Dudley Roberts (born 1945), English footballer
* Dudley Ryder (disambiguation)
* Dudley Senanayake (1911–1973), 2nd, 6th and 8th Prime Minister of Ceylon
* Dudley Spade (born 1956), American politician
* Dudley Stamp (1898–1966), British geographer
* Dudley Storey (1939–2017), New Zealand Olympic rower
* Dudley Tyler (born 1944), English footballer
* Dudley Wanaguru (1924–2002), Sri Lankan Sinhala cinema actor
* Dudley D. Watkins (1907–1969), English cartoonist and creator of Oor Wullie

## Fictional characters

* Dudley, an angel in the film The Bishop's Wife played by Cary Grant
* Dudley, a British boxer from the Street Fighter video game series
* Dudley Bristol, protagonist of the television series Dudley, played by Dudley Moore
* Dudley "Booger" Dawson, in the Revenge of the Nerds franchise
* Dudley Dursley, in the Harry Potter books and films
* Dudley Mafee, in the television series Billions
* Dudley Do Nothing, in Shorty McShorts' Shorts
* Dudley Do-Right, an animated Canadian Mountie
* Dudley Liam Smith, an L.A. Confidential villain
* Dudley Puppy, one of the main protagonists of Nickelodeon's T.U.F.F. Puppy
* Dudley Ramsey, in the television series Diff'rent Strokes