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:

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

 * 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