Dudley (given name)

Dudley is a male given name and means "People's field" and it 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 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