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

  • Rudy Andeweg (born 1952), Dutch political scientist
  • Rudi Assauer (1944–2019), German football manager and player
  • Rudy Ballieux (1930–2020), Dutch immunologist
  • Rudi Carrell (1934–2006), Dutch television entertainer
  • Rudy Clavel (born 1996), Salvadoran footballer
  • 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
  • Rudi Dornbusch (1942–2002), German economist
  • Rudi Dutschke (1940–1979), the most prominent spokesperson of the 1960s German student movement
  • Rudy Florio (born 1950), Canadian football player
  • Rudy Ford (born 1994), American football player
  • 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
  • Rudi Gernreich (1922–1985), Austrian-born American fashion designer
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rudy Sikich (1921–1998), American National Football League player
  • Rudi Skácel (born 1979), Czech footballer
  • Rudi Spring (1962–2025), German composer, pianist and academic
  • Rudi Tröger (1929–2025), German painter and academic
  • Rudy Trouvé (born 1967), Belgian musician
  • Rudy Turk (1927–2007), American museum director, curator, painter
  • Rudy Vallée (1901–1986), American singer, actor and bandleader, one of the first modern pop stars
  • Rudi Vis (1941–2010), Dutch-born British politician and Member of Parliament
  • 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
  • Rudy Wiedoeft (1893–1940), American saxophonist
  • 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
  • Kathy Rudy (born 1956), American women's studies scholar and theologian
  • 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 Steiner, 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 (character), 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, a character in season two of the Pokémon anime series
  • 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 in the Dexter television series
  • Rudy, a Frankfurt body, who plays a street barrel-organ and is friend of Clara and Heidi in the Heidi television series
  • Rudolph "Rudy" Holiday, character from the videogame Deltarune

Songs

  • "A Message to You, Rudy", a 1967 song by Dandy Livingstone, later covered by The Specials in 1979
  • "Rudy", a 1974 song by Supertramp from their album Crime of the Century

See also

  • Rudolph (name)