Top Celebrity Names Starting With Rudolf

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   Rudolf Martin

   Age 44 Male
   

   Actor

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   Rudolf Martin is a German actor working mainly in the US. He first appeared in off-Broadway productions and then moved on to extensive TV and film work. He has made guest appearances on numerous hit television series and recently started working in Germany as well. He currently resides in Los Angleles.… read more

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   Rudolf Bahro

   1935 - 1997 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Rudolf Bahro was a philosopher, political figure and author who was a noted East German dissident and who became a leader of the West German party The Greens. He later became disenchanted with the Greens and explored spiritual approaches to sustainability.… read more

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   Rudolf Nureyev

   1938 - 1993 Male
   

   Dancer, Actor

   
   

   Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women. In 1961 he defected to the West, despite KGB efforts to stop him. According to KGB archives studied by Peter Watson, Nikita Khrushchev personally signed an order to have Nureyev killed.… read more

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   Rudolf Steiner

   1861 - 1925 Male
   

   Austrian Philosopher, Literary Scholar, Educator, Artist, Playwright, Social Thinker, and Esotericist

   
   

   Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of idealist philosophy and with links to Theosophy. Steiner led this movement through several phases.… read more

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   Rudolf Caracciola

   1901 - 1959 Male
   

   Racing Driver

   
   

   Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola, more commonly Rudolf Caracciola, was a racing driver from Remagen, Germany. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times. He also won the European Hillclimbing Championship three times – twice in sports cars, and once in Grand Prix cars.… read more

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   Rudolf Vrba

   1924 - 2006 Male
   

   Author of 1944 Report On Auschwitz Concentration Camp

   
   

   Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg was a Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia, who came to public attention during the Second World War when, in April 1944, he escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland with the first information about the camp that the Allies regarded as credible.… read more

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   Rudolf Kassner

   1873 - 1959 Male
   

   Writer, Essayist, Poet

   
   

   Rudolf Kassner was an Austrian writer, essayist, translator and cultural philosopher. Although stricken as an infant with poliomyelitis, Kassner traveled widely to northern Africa, the Sahara, India, Russia, Spain, and throughout Europe. His translations of William Blake introduced this English romantic poet to German-speaking audiences. His literary career covered six decades, including a period of isolation during the Nazi years in Vienna.… read more

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   Rudolf Rocker

   1873 - 1958 Male
   

   Writer, Historian, Prominent Activist

   
   

   Johann Rudolf Rocker was an anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist. A self-professed anarchist without adjectives, Rocker believed that anarchist schools of thought represented "only different methods of economy" and that the first objective for anarchists was "to secure the personal and social freedom of men".… read more

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   Rudolf Hess

   1894 - 1987 Male
   

   Nazi Leader

   
   

   Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom, but was arrested and became a prisoner of war. Hess was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served at Spandau Prison, Berlin, where he died in 1987.… read more

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    Rudolf George Escher

    1912 - 1980 Male
    

    Composer

    
    

    Rudolf Escher was a Dutch composer and music theorist. He left compositions for chamber orchestra and orchestra, vocal and one electronic composition. Escher was also a poet, painter and writer.

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    Rudolf Wolters

    1903 - 1983 Male
    

    Architect

    
    

    Rudolf Wolters was a German architect and government official, known for his longtime association with fellow architect and Third Reich official Albert Speer. A friend and subordinate of Speer, Wolters received the many papers which were smuggled out of Spandau Prison for Speer while he was imprisoned there, and kept them for him until Speer was released in 1966.… read more

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    Rudolf Kastner

    1906 - 1957 Male
    

    Lawyer, Civil Servant

    
    

    Rudolf Israel Kastner was a Jewish-Hungarian journalist and lawyer who became known for facilitating the departure of Jews out of Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust. He was assassinated in 1957 after an Israeli court accused him of having collaborated with the Nazis.… read more

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    Rudolf Höss

    1900 - 1947 Male
    

    War Criminal, Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

    
    

    Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered. Höss joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and the SS in 1934. He was hanged in 1947 following his trial in Warsaw.… read more

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    Rudolf Hilferding

    1877 - 1941 Male
    

    Economist, Socialist, Doctor

    
    

    Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, leading socialist theorist, politician and chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic, almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of his century, and a physician. He was born in Vienna, where he received a doctorate having studied medicine.… read more

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    Rudolf Wanderone

    1913 - 1996 Male
    

    Pocket Billiards (pool) Player, Entertainer, Author

    
    

    Rudolf Walter Wanderone, Jr. was an American professional pocket billiards player, also known as "Minnesota Fats". Though he never won a major pool tournament as "Fats", he was perhaps the most publicly recognized pool player in the United States – not only as a player, but also as an entertainer.… read more

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    Rudolf Skácel

    Age 32 Male
    

    Footballer

    
    

    Rudolf "Rudi" Skácel is a professional footballer who has been capped at international level by the Czech Republic and currently plays for Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premier League. He is generally deployed as a left sided midfield player but has proven himself to be versatile, having also played as a central attacking midfielder and a left back.… read more

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    Rudolf Carl von Slatin

    1857 - 1932 Male
    

    Major General, Soldier, Administrator

    
    

    Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, GCVO, KCMG, CB was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.

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    Rudolf Margolius

    1913 - 1952 Male
    

    Politician, Deputy, Minister

    
    

    Rudolf Margolius was Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Czechoslovakia (1949-1952), and a co-defendant in the Slánský trial in November 1952. The 1952 Slánský trial involved the Communist Party General Secretary, Rudolf Slánský, and his thirteen co-defendants. They were arrested, unjustly accused, tried, and executed as traitors and western spies.… read more

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    Rudolf Brazda

    1913 - 2011 Male
    

    Concentration Camp Survivor

    
    

    Rudolf Brazda was the last known concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality. Brazda spent nearly three years at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where his prisoner uniform was branded with the distinctive pink triangle that the Nazis used to mark men interned as homosexuals. After the liberation of Buchenwald, Brazda settled in Alsace, northeastern France, in May 1945 and lived there for the rest of his life.… read more

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    Rudolf Firkušný

    1912 - 1994 Male
    

    Pianist, Musician

    
    

    Rudolf Firkušný was a Czech-born, American classical pianist.