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Rudolf Lehmann (military judge)

Rudolf Lehmann (1890–1955), German military jurist, Chief of the OKW Legal Department from 1938 and Generaloberstabsrichter from 1944; tried in the Nuremberg High Command Case and sentenced to seven years, released 1950.

Rudolf Leuckart

Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898) was a German zoologist, professor at Leipzig from 1869, known as the father of parasitology for working out the life cycles of tapeworms and the trichina.

Rudolf Lippert

Rudolf Lippert (Curt Ewald Rudolf Lippert, 1900-1945), German three-day-event rider; tenth at Amsterdam 1928 on Flucht, team eventing gold at Berlin 1936 on Fasan; later Major General commanding the 5th Panzer Division, killed in action at Bielefeld.

Rudolf Lipschitz

Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903) was a German mathematician, professor at Bonn from 1864, whose Lipschitz condition underlies uniqueness proofs for differential equations and whose work anticipated relativity and spinor theory.

Rudolf M. Tromp

Rudolf M. Tromp (R. M. Tromp) is a Dutch-born physicist at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, known for low-energy electron microscopy and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Rudolf Magnus

Rudolf Magnus (1873–1927) was a German-born Dutch pharmacologist and physiologist who held the Netherlands' first pharmacology chair, at Utrecht University from 1908, and analyzed postural reflexes in decerebrate animals.

Rudolf Maria Holzapfel

Rudolf Maria Holzapfel (1874–1930) was an Austrian psychologist and cultural philosopher whose main work, Panideal (1901), proposed reorganizing humanity's emotional and social life around a ranked love of humankind.

Rudolf Mössbauer

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (1929–2011) was a German physicist from Munich who discovered recoilless nuclear resonance absorption of gamma radiation, the Mössbauer effect, winning the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Nureyev (Рудольф Нуреев, 1938-1993) was a Soviet Kirov Ballet dancer who defected in Paris in 1961, partnered Margot Fonteyn at The Royal Ballet, led the Paris Opera Ballet 1983-1989, and restaged Petipa classics still danced there.

Rudolf Peierls

Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995) was a German-born British theoretical physicist who, with Otto Frisch, wrote the 1940 memorandum first showing a practical atomic bomb was possible.

Rudolf Pfeiffer

Rudolf Pfeiffer (1889–1979) was a German classical philologist who edited Callimachus and wrote the two-volume History of Classical Scholarship, teaching at Oxford after his 1937 removal from Munich.

Rudolf Plyukfelder

Rudolf Plyukfelder (Рудольф Владимирович Плюкфельдер; originally Pflugfelder, 1928-2026), Soviet light-heavyweight weightlifter, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold at 475.0 kg, and Shakhty coach of Alekseyev, Rigert, and other Olympic champions.

Rudolf Povarnitsyn

Rudolf Povarnitsyn (Рудольф Павлович Поварницын), born 1962 in Votkinsk, is a Ukrainian former high jumper for the USSR; he set the first 2.40 m world record in Donetsk in 1985 and won 1988 Olympic bronze.

Rudolf Rigler

Rudolf Rigler (1936–2022) was a professor of medical physics at Karolinska Institutet whose fluorescence fluctuation and single-molecule detection work is credited in the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry background.

Rudolf Rocker

Rudolf Rocker, also known as Johann Rudolf Rocker, was a German anarchist writer and theorist. Active in Britain, Germany, and the United States, he wrote Nationalism and Culture and Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice.

Rudolf Rott

Rudolf Rott (1926–2003) was a German virologist who held Germany's first university chair of virology, at Gießen, and showed that influenza pathogenicity depends on hemagglutinin cleavage and gene exchange.

Rudolf Scharping

Rudolf Scharping (born 1947) is a German SPD politician: Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate 1991-1994, SPD chairman 1993-1995, 1994 chancellor candidate, and Federal Minister of Defence 1998-2002, dismissed in the Hunzinger affair.

Rudolf Schenker

Rudolf Schenker (born 1948, Sarstedt, Germany) founded the Scorpions in Hannover in 1965 at 17. Rhythm guitarist, Flying V player, and chief composer; with Klaus Meine led the band to 100 million records.

Rudolf Schulten

Rudolf Schulten (1923–1996) was a German nuclear physicist and RWTH Aachen professor who invented the pebble bed high-temperature reactor, built as the AVR in Jülich and the THTR-300 prototype.

Rudolf Slánský

Rudolf Slánský (1901–1952), Czechoslovak communist politician and KSČ General Secretary 1945–1951, executed in December 1952 after the notorious Prague show trial of fourteen defendants, eleven of Jewish origin.

Rudolf Spanner

Rudolf Maria Spanner (1895–1960) was a German physician, anatomist, and pathologist who directed the Danzig Anatomical Institute from 1940 to 1945, where soap was experimentally produced from human fat.

Rudolf Steck

Rudolf Steck (1842–1924) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and New Testament scholar who taught at the University of Bern and argued in 1888 that the main Pauline epistles were second-century works.

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was an Austrian-born spiritualist and philosopher who led the Theosophical Society's German Section, founded anthroposophy, a spiritual science, and inspired Waldorf education, eurythmy, and biodynamic agriculture.

Rudolf Svedberg

Rudolf Svedberg (Per Vilhelm Rudolf Svedberg, nicknamed Preven), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, 1936 Berlin Olympic welterweight (≤72 kg) gold medalist who beat Fritz Schäfer 2–1, and Sweden's national wrestling instructor 1945–72.

Rudolf Svensson

Rudolf Svensson (Starke Rudolf), Swedish wrestler 1899-1978; four Olympic medals: 1924 double silver, 1928 and 1932 Greco-Roman gold; Hall of Fame 2005.

Rudolf Trümpy

Rudolf Trümpy (1921–2009) was a Swiss geologist, professor at ETH Zürich from 1953 to 1986, whose 1960 paleotectonic synthesis reshaped how geologists understand the Alps.

Rudolf Valenta

Rudolf Valenta is an Austrian allergist and immunologist, Professor of Allergology at the Medical University of Vienna, known for identifying profilin as a pollen allergen in 1991.

Rudolf Vesper

Rudolf Vesper (born 3 April 1939, Niemil) is an East German Greco-Roman welterweight wrestler, 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold medalist, twice World Championship silver medalist (1963, 1967), and nine-time East German champion.

Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Virchow (Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, 1821–1902), German pathologist called the father of modern pathology; founder of cellular pathology and omnis cellula e cellula, author of Die Cellularpathologie (1858), founder of Virchow's Archiv, and social-medicine reformer.