Rupert

### Caption

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a famous monarch and military commander who became famous for his role in the War of the Three Kingdoms and Second Anglo-Dutch War

## Origin

### Word / Name

Indo-European
**Germanic**

### Meaning

Robert (Fame-Bright, Glory-Bright, Shining with Glory, Godlike-Bright)

## Other Names

### See Also

Roger, Roland, Rudolph, Roderick, Roman, Rose, Waldemar, Vladimir

**Rupert** or **Ruppert** is an English truncation of Latin **Rupertus**, which derives from Old High German *Hruodoperht/Hruodoberht* ('p' and 'b' are the voiceless and voiced cognates of the same consonant); which is also the source of the name **Robert**. Thus, "Rupert" and "Robert" are different modern forms of the same name. The Old High German form of the name evolved from Germanic *Hrothi*, "fame, glory, honour, godlike" + *Berht*, "bright"; thus, Rupert and Robert mean "fame bright".

## People named Rupert

* Saint Rupert of Bingen
* Rupert Boneham (born 1964), American multi-time *Survivor* contestant
* Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poet
* Rupert Bunny (1864–1947), Australian painter
* Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon (1907–1928), great-grandson of Queen Victoria
* Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon (1852–1929), English Liberal MP and soldier
* Rupert Carington, 5th Baron Carrington (1891–1938), English peer, father of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, former UK Foreign Secretary
* Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington (born 1948), English businessman, son of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, former UK Foreign Secretary
* Rupert Cawthorne (1879–1965), English professional footballer
* Rupert Davies (1916–1976), English actor
* Rupert Evans (born 1977), English actor
* Rupert Everett (born 1959), English actor
* Rupert Friend (born 1981), English actor
* Rupert Gould (1890-1948), lieutenant-commander in the British Royal Navy, scientist, author and radio personality
* Rupert Graves (born 1963), English actor
* Rupert Gregson-Williams, movie score composer
* Rupert Grint (born 1988), English actor
* Rupert Gwynne (1873–1924), English Conservative Party politician and MP
* Rupert Price Hallowes (1881–1915), World War I Victoria Cross recipient
* Rupert Hine (1947-2020), British Musician, Record Producer
* Rupert Holmes (born 1947), British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author.
* Rupert Jeffcoat (born 1970), Scottish musician
* Rupert Keegan (born 1955), English Formula One driver
* Rupert, King of Germany (German: *Ruprecht*) (1352–1410), German King
* Blessed Rupert Mayer (1876–1945)
* Rupert Moon Welsh rugby international player
* Rupert Murdoch (born 1931), Australian-American media magnate
* Rupert Penry-Jones (born 1970), English actor
* Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley (born 1957), British hereditary peer, Member of the House of Lords
* Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619–1682), soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman, colonial governor and amateur artist during the 17th century, one of the principal commanders of Wars of the Three Kingdoms, First English Civil War, Battle of Marston Moor and Second Anglo-Dutch War
* Saint Rupert of Salzburg
* Rupert Richardson (1930-2008), American Civil Rights activist
* Rupert Sanders (born 1971), English film director
* Rupert Sandilands 1868–1946), English international footballer
* Rupert Scholz (born 1937), German politician who served as 9th Minister of Defence of Germany
* Rupert Sheldrake (born 1942), English professor, biologist and lecturer
* Rupert Shephard (1909–1992), English painter, illustrator and art teacher
* Rupert Shoobridge (1883–1962), Australian politician
* Rupert Shrive (born 1965), English artist
* Rupert Simonian (born 1991), British actor with Canada dual citizenship
* Rupert Sloman (1890–1951), New Zealand cricketer
* Rupert de Smidt (1883–1986), South African cricketer
* Rupert Smith (born 1943), British Army officer, author of *The Utility of Force*, one of the principal commanders of Operation Deliberate Force, NATO Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina and NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
* Rupert Smith (1897–1959), American football and baseball player
* Rupert Smith, American-born English author
* Rupert Soames OBE (born 1959), British businessman, CEO of the outsourcing company Serco
* Rupert Speir (1910–1998), British Conservative Party politician and MP
* Rupert Spira, English studio potter
* Rupert Stadler (born 1963), German business executive and chairman of the Vorstand (CEO) of Audi AG
* Charles Rupert Stockhard (1879–1939), American anatomist and zoologist
* Rupert Gordon Strutt (1912–1985), the Anglican Bishop of Stockport from 1965 to 1984
* Rupert Max Stuart (1932–2014), Indigenous Australian convicted of murder in 1959
* Rupert Svendsen-Cook (born 1990), British racing driver
* Rupert Taylor (born 1958), professor of political studies in Johannesburg
* J. Rupert Thompson (born 1964), director and producer of reality television
* Rupert Thosmon FRSL (born 1955), English author
* Rupert Thorneloe, MBE (1969–2009), British Army officer killed in action in Afghanistan
* Timothy Rupert Thorogood (born 1962), Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands 2008–2012
* Rupert von Trapp (1911–1992), eldest son of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp
* Rupert Trimmingham (1899–1985), corporal in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II
* Wallace Rupert Turnbul (1870–1954), New Brunswick engineer and inventor
* Rupert Vansittart (born 1958), English character actor
* Rupert Wagner, German sprint canoeist
* Rupert Wainwright (born 1961), English film and TV director, writer, and actor
* Rupert Webb (born 1922), English cricketer
* Rupert Wegerif (born 1959), Professor of Education at the University of Exeter in England
* Rupert Weinstabl (1911–1953), Austrian sprint canoeist
* Rupert Mearse Wells (1835–1902), speaker of the Legislature of Ontario
* Rupert Wells, South African rugby league player
* Rupert Wertheim (1893–1933), Australian tennis player
* Rupert Whitaker (born 1963), psychiatrist, immunologist, patient-advocate
* Rupert Wilson Wigmore, PC (1873–1939), Canadian politician
* Rupert Wildt (1905–1976), German-American astronomer
* Rupert Wilkinson (born 1938), British historian
* Rupert Williamson (born 1945), furniture designer
* Rupert Wills (born 1993), Australian rules footballer
* Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (born 1967), British journalist
* Rupert Worker (1896–1989), played first-class cricket in New Zealand
* Rupert Wyatt (born 1972), English screenwriter, director, and producer
* Rupert Young (born 1978), English actor

## References

https://www.behindthename.com/name/rupert