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Rupert Boneham
Rupert Boneham (Rupert Fredrick Boneham, born 1964) is an American Survivor contestant and troubled-teens mentor who played four seasons, first to play consecutive seasons, and won a fan-voted $1 million prize without winning the game.
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887–1915), English Georgian poet famous for the five "1914" war sonnets including "The Soldier"; Royal Naval Division officer who died of septicemia off Skyros in April 1915 and was buried there.
Rupert Everett
Rupert James Hector Everett (born 1959) is an English actor, writer, and director, star of Another Country and My Best Friend's Wedding, and writer-director-star of The Happy Prince (2018) about Oscar Wilde.
Rupert F. Oulton
Rupert F. Oulton is a physicist in nanophotonics and plasmonics, Professor of Nanophotonics at Imperial College London since 2020, known for the 2009 plasmon laser demonstration in Nature.
Rupert Friend
Rupert Friend (born 1981, Oxfordshire) is a British actor known for Pride & Prejudice, The Young Victoria, Homeland's Peter Quinn, Hitman: Agent 47, and Wes Anderson films including Asteroid City.
Rupert Giles
Rupert Giles, also Rupert Edmund Giles, is the fictional Watcher, Sunnydale High librarian, and mentor of Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), played by Anthony Stewart Head; known for his Ripper past and unmade BBC spin-off.
Rupert Graves
Rupert Graves (Rupert Simeon Graves) is an English film, television, and theatre actor born 1963 in Weston-super-Mare, known for Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View, Alec Scudder in Maurice, and DI Greg Lestrade in BBC's Sherlock.
Rupert Grint
Rupert Grint (born 1988, Harlow, Essex) is the British actor who played Ron Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films (2001-2011), later starring in Servant, Knock at the Cabin, and returning as Ron in Broadway's Cursed Child in 2027.
Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes (David Goldstein, born 1947, Cheshire, England) is a composer-lyricist, playwright, and singer-songwriter; his "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" hit number one, and his audience-voting musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood won three Tonys.
Rupert L. Atkin
Rupert L. Atkin (1918–2014) was an American automotive engineer at Kelsey-Hayes and TRW, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975 for power brakes, steering, and skid control work.
Rupert Lowe
Rupert Lowe (born 1957, Oxford) is a British politician, MP for Great Yarmouth since 2024, former Southampton FC chairman and Brexit Party MEP, suspended from Reform UK in 2025 and now leader of Restore Britain.
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch, born Keith Rupert Murdoch in 1931 in Melbourne, is an Australian-born American media mogul who built News Corp and Fox Corporation and retired as chairman in 2023.
Rupert of Deutz
Rupert of Deutz (Rupertus Tuitiensis, c. 1075–1129/30) was a Benedictine monk and abbot of Deutz near Cologne, regarded as the most productive theological writer of the 12th century.
Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert William Penry-Jones is an English actor born in 1970, best known for playing MI5 officer Adam Carter in Spooks and DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel.
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders (born 1971) is a British director from Westminster, London, formerly an award-winning commercial director, who directed Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Ghost in the Shell (2017), and The Crow (2024).
Rupert Seidl
Rupert Seidl (born 1979) is an Austrian forest ecologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich who studies forest disturbances like fire, wind, and bark beetles.
Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake (born 1942) is an English biologist, Cambridge PhD in biochemistry, and author of A New Science of Life (1981), known for the morphic resonance hypothesis of formative causation and for telepathy and staring experiments, work widely criticized as pseudoscience.
Rupert Soames
Rupert Soames is a British businessman and grandson of Winston Churchill who served as chief executive of Aggreko and Serco, and has chaired Smith+Nephew since 2023.
Rupert Timpl
Rupert Timpl (1936–2003) was a biochemist who spent his career at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry near Munich, known for isolating laminin and discovering nidogen and the fibulins.
Rupert Vansittart
Rupert Vansittart (Rupert Nicholas Vansittart, b. 1958, Cranleigh, Surrey) is an English character actor known for Lord Ashfordly in Heartbeat, Yohn Royce in Game of Thrones, Mr Hurst in Pride and Prejudice, and Braveheart's Lord Bottoms.
Rupert Waterhouse
Rupert Waterhouse (1873–1958) was a British physician who spent his career in Bath and whose 1911 Lancet paper described Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, adrenal failure from bilateral adrenal hemorrhage.
Rupert Wildt
Rupert Wildt (1905–1976) was a German-American astrophysicist who identified methane and ammonia in Jupiter's spectrum, showed how the negative hydrogen ion makes the Sun opaque, and predicted Venus's greenhouse warming in 1940.
Rupert, King of the Romans
Rupert of the Palatinate (Ruprecht von der Pfalz, 1352–1410), Wittelsbach Count Palatine and King of the Romans 1400–1410, elected after Wenceslaus IV's deposition; failed Italian campaign 1401–02; died at Landskron near Oppenheim.
Rupert's Land
Rupert's Land, Terre de Rupert, was the Hudson Bay drainage basin territory chartered by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and sold to Canada in 1869-70 for $1.5 million, becoming the North-West Territories.
Rupes Altai
Rupes Altai (Altai Scarp) is a 427-km-long lunar escarpment, a segment of the Nectaris basin rim west of Mare Nectaris, 3.5-4.0 km high, IAU-named in 1961 after the terrestrial Altai Mountains.
Rupes Cauchy
Rupes Cauchy is a giant lunar normal-fault scarp, 300 m tall, crossing about 200 km of eastern Mare Tranquillitatis at 9.31N 37.08E; IAU-named 1964 from nearby crater Cauchy, paired with Rima Cauchy graben.
Rupes Kelvin
Rupes Kelvin is an IAU-approved lunar scarp (rupes), feature ID 5227, about 86 km long at 28.03 S, 33.17 W on the Moon, a remnant rim of the Humorum Basin named in 1964 from a nearby promontorium.
Rupes Liebig
Rupes Liebig is a 144.78 km lunar escarpment on the western shore of Mare Humorum at 25.14S, 45.92W, IAU-approved in 1964 and named from the nearby crater Liebig.
Rupes Mercator
Rupes Mercator, a named lunar scarp (rupes) at 31°S 22.3°W, about 93 km long, approved 1985, named from crater Mercator; a remnant wall of the Nubium Basin.
Rupes Recta
Rupes Recta, commonly called the Straight Wall, is a large linear normal fault in eastern Mare Nubium on the Moon, appearing as a dark line under low sunlight.