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Rudy Gay
Rudy Gay, born 1986, American forward, 8th pick of the 2006 NBA draft from UConn; played 17 seasons for Memphis, Toronto, Sacramento, San Antonio, and Utah, retired 2024 with 15.8 ppg and two FIBA World Cup golds.
Rudy Gestede
Rudy Gestede (Rudolphe Philippe Michel Camille Gestede), born 1988, Beninese striker, 11 Benin caps; starred for Blackburn (35 goals in 72 games), later Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Melbourne Victory; now Blackburn's head of football operations.
Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Giuliani, NYC mayor 1994–2001, credited with a 62.3% crime drop though the decline began before him; later Trump's attorney, disbarred and ordered to pay $148 million for defaming Georgia election workers.
Rudy Gobert
Rudy Gobert, French NBA center (Minnesota Timberwolves, formerly Utah Jazz), four-time Defensive Player of the Year, 2013 draft pick 27, Olympic silver medalist with France at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
Rudy Kurniawan
Rudy Kurniawan (Zhen Wang Huang), Indonesian-born wine counterfeiter of the 2000s, blended cheap wines into fake rare vintages in Arcadia, California; convicted of mail and wire fraud in 2013, sentenced to ten years, deported to Indonesia in 2020.
Rudy Mancuso
Rudy Mancuso (Rodolfo Mancuso, born 1992) is an American filmmaker, musician, and YouTube creator with 10.54 million Vine followers, known for musical comedy videos and for the 2024 Prime Video film Musica.
Rudy Mas'ud
Rudy Mas'ud is an Indonesian Golkar politician elected Governor of East Kalimantan in 2024, taking office in 2025, and Chairman of the Association of Provincial Governments of Indonesia.
Rudy Matondo
Rudy Matondo (Rudy Nzingoula Matondo), born 2008 in Évry-Courcouronnes, is a French central midfielder for Paris FC in Ligue 1; ex-US Grigny and AJ Auxerre youth, France U17 Euro 2025 finalist, youngest Paris FC Ligue 1 goalscorer. Not the Welsh winger Rabbi Matondo.
Rudy Pankow
Rudy Pankow, born 1997 in Ketchikan, Alaska, is an American actor known as JJ Maybank in Netflix's Outer Banks (2020-2024), Young Sam in Uncharted (2022), Erwin in Accidental Texan, and Scotty in Reminders of Him (2026).
Rudy Ray Moore
Rudy Ray Moore (Rudolph Frank Moore, 1927-2008), American comedian, singer, and filmmaker called the "king of the party records" and Godfather of Rap, creator of the Dolemite character in profane 1970s comedy albums and self-financed blaxploitation films.
Rudy Recile
Rudy Recile is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in California's 8th Congressional District in 2026, his third run against incumbent John Garamendi after losses in 2022 and 2024.
Rudy Reyes (actor)
Rudy Reyes (Rodolfo Reyes, born 1971), former Force Recon Marine and scout sniper who played himself in HBO's Generation Kill (2008); later Force Blue co-founder, SAS: Who Dares Wins and Special Forces instructor, author of Hero Living.
Rudy Ruettiger
Rudy Ruettiger (Daniel Eugene Ruettiger), Joliet-born Navy veteran and 5'6" Notre Dame walk-on, sacked Georgia Tech's Rudy Allen on the final play, Nov. 8, 1975, inspiring the 1993 film Rudy; later a motivational speaker.
Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-born hard rock and metal bassist (full name Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavielle Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont), played with Ozzy Osbourne 1981-1982, Quiet Riot (Metal Health, No. 1 in 1983), Whitesnake, Dio, Blue Oyster Cult, Animetal USA, and The Guess Who.
Rudy Scholz
Rudy Scholz, full name Rudolph John Scholz, was an American rugby union scrum-half who won Olympic gold with the United States in 1920 and 1924.
Rudy Tomjanovich
Rudy Tomjanovich, born 1948 in Hamtramck, Michigan, is a Hall of Fame player and coach who spent his career with the Houston Rockets, won NBA titles in 1994 and 1995, and coached Team USA to 2000 Olympic gold.
Rudy Vallée
Rudy Vallée (Hubert Prior Vallée, 1901–1986), American crooner, bandleader, and radio host of the Connecticut Yankees and NBC's Fleischmann's Yeast Hour; first radio-created pop star, hitmaker of "Stein Song", later Broadway's J.B. Biggley.
Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder (Rudolph Van Gelder, 1924–2016), American jazz recording engineer and former optometrist; creator of the Blue Note sound from his Hackensack living-room studio and later Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Rudy VanderLans
Rudy VanderLans (born 1955) is a Dutch graphic designer who co-founded, with type designer Zuzana Licko, the Emigre magazine and digital type foundry in Berkeley, California.
Rudy Wurlitzer
Rudy Wurlitzer (Rudolph Wurlitzer, born 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter of the Wurlitzer jukebox family, known for Nog, Flats, Quake, and the screenplays Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973).
Rudy Yakym
Rudy Yakym III is an American Republican politician who has represented Indiana's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2022, serving on the Ways and Means Committee.
Rudy Youngblood
Rudy Youngblood, also known as Rudy Gonzalez, is an American actor born 1982, of reported Comanche and Cree descent, best known as Jaguar Paw in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (2006); later credits include Beatdown, Wind Walkers, and Hell on the Border.
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English writer born in Bombay, Nobel laureate 1907 and first English-language winner; author of The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, and the poem If, famed for imperial themes and contested reputation.
Rudyard Kipling bibliography
Rudyard Kipling bibliography: the record of the British author's printed works (1881-1944), from Departmental Ditties and Plain Tales from the Hills to Jungle Book and Kim. Covers the Sussex Edition, Livingston, Stewart, and the definitive Richards 2010 bibliography.
Rue Bennett
Rue Bennett (Ruby Bennett), protagonist and narrator of HBO's Euphoria played by Zendaya, a biracial teen navigating drug addiction, grief, and bipolar disorder; created by Sam Levinson from his own addiction experience; dies of an overdose in the season 3 finale.
Rue McClanahan
Rue McClanahan (Eddi-Rue McClanahan, 1934–2010), American actress and comedian; Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls, Vivian on Maude, Aunt Fran on Mama's Family; 1987 Emmy winner.
Rue Valley
Rue Valley is a 2025 time loop narrative adventure by Emotion Spark Studio, published by Owlcat Games, in which Mr. Harrow relives 47 minutes in a desert town; mixed reviews, Disco Elysium comparisons.
Ruedi Aebersold
Ruedi Aebersold is a Swiss and Canadian proteomics scientist who co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle in 2000 and later founded a research institute at ETH Zurich.
Ruel (singer)
Ruel (Ruel Vincent van Dijk, born 2002, Isleworth, London) is an Australian pop and soul singer-songwriter; youngest ARIA Breakthrough Artist winner, 3 billion streams, albums 4th Wall and Kicking My Feet.
Ruellia
Ruellia (wild petunia), a large genus of Acanthaceae flowering plants published by Linnaeus in 1753, with about 375-388 species native to tropics, subtropics, and North America; type species Ruellia tuberosa.