# Rudy

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
* 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

* Jan Bytnar, nom de guerre Rudy (1921–1943), Polish resistance fighter
* 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
* Rudy, from The Book Thief
* Rudi van DiSarzio, a psychedelic monk in The Mighty Boosh
* Rudi Gunn, in the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by Clive Cussler
* Rudeus Greyrat, the main character of the Japanese light novel Mushoku Tensei
* Rudy Huxtable, in the American sitcom The Cosby Show
* 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 Tabootie, in the animated series ChalkZone
* 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
* Regular-Sized Rudy (born Rudolph Stieblitz), a supporting character in the animated series Bob's Burgers
* Rudy Cooper- Aka Brian Moser (Dexter) Apperears as the main antagonist of season 1 of Dexter.