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Rudaba
Rudaba or Roodabeh (in Persian رودابه) is a Persian mythological female figure in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh. She married to Zal. They had two children, Rostam and Zuara. The word Roodabeh consists of two sections. "Rood" and "ab", "Rood" means child and "ab" means shining, means shining chi..
Rudaj Organization
The Rudaj Organization is the name given the Albanian mafia in the New York City metro area, so named for the man accused of being its kingpin, Alex Rudaj of Yorktown, New York. The Rudaj Organization, called "The Corporation" by its members, was started in 1993 in Westchester and spread to the Bron..
Rudaki
Rudaki depicted as a blind poet, here on this Iranian stamp. Abdullah Jafar Ibne Mohammed Rudaki, also written as Rudagi or Rudhagi, (859-c.941) was a Persian poet, and the first great literary genius of modern Persian language, who composed poems in the "New Persian" Perso-Arabic alphabet scri..
Rudall River National Park
Rudall River is a national park in Western Australia (Australia), 1252 km northeast of Perth. Fact sheet Area: 12837 km²Coordinates: [22°19′60″S, 122°29′11″E]Date of establishment: 1977Managing authorities: Department of Conservation and Land ManagementIUCN category: II See als..
Rudamun
Rudamun was a king of the Twenty-third dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He was the younger son of Osorkon III, and the brother of Takelot III. He is a poorly attested king of this Dynasty according to Kenneth Kitchen's seminal book on The Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. Kitchen credits him with a brie..
Rudar Velenje
Rudar Velenje is a Slovenian football club, which plays in the town of Velenje.   Liga Simobil Vodafone 2005/06 ..
Rudas Baths
Rudas Bath or Rudas fürdő is a thermal and medicinal bath that was first built during the Turkish occupation of Hungary in 1550. To date, it retains many of the key elements of a Turkish bath, exemplified by its Turkish dome and octogonal pool. It is located at Döbrentei tér 9 on the Buda side o..
Rudauli
Rudauli is a city and a municipal board in Faizabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Geography Rudauli is located at [26.75° N 81.75° E][Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Rudauli]. It has an average elevation of 105 metres (344 feet). Demographic..
Rudayan
Rudayan is a town and a nagar panchayat in Budaun district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Rudayan had a population of 7130. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Rudayan has an average lite..
Ruda Real
"Ruda Real" (June 24 1976 - January 29, 2006) was the stage name of Kairuba Brown, an American hip-hop soul singer Brown was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He started singing very early in his life, and was performing professionally by his teens. In 1996, he attracted the attention of l..
Ruda Śląska
Ruda Śląska (pronounce: [['ruda,ɕlɔ̃ska]]) is a city in south Poland with 149,000 inhabitants (2001), Situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Katowice Voivodship (1975-1998). The town is divided in the following neighbourhoods: Bielsz..
Rudbar
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Rudbeckia
Rudbeckia is one of at least four genera within the flowering plant family Asteraceae whose members are commonly known as coneflowers; the others are Echinacea, Dracopis and Ratibida. They are herbaceous, mostly perennial plants (some annual or biennial) growing to 0.5-3 m tall, with simple or br..
Rudbeckia fulgida
Rudbeckia fulgida, commonly known as Black-eyed Susan or Orange coneflower, is a perennial plant native to eastern North America. Stems are hairy, ridged, and dark green. Leaves are dark green, sparsely but rouchly haired, simple. Flowers are heads, with black disc florets and bright orange ray fl..
Rudbeckia hirta
Rudbeckia hirta is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an upright annual (sometimes biennial or perennial) native to most of North America, and is one of a number of plants with the common name Black-eyed Susan that also has purple on the side. The plant can reach a height of 1-2 m...
Rudbeckia laciniata
The cutleaf or green-headed coneflower, Rudbeckia laciniata is a large perennial herb, native to Eastern North America, most often found in flood plains and moist soils. This plant grows up to 3 meters tall, with slightly glaucous leaves, and composite flowers. The disc flowers are green to yellow..
Rudbjerg
Rudbjerg is a municipality (Danish, kommune) on the southwest coast of the island of Lolland in Storstrøm County, southern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 143 km², and has a total population of 3,432 (2005). Its mayor is Tom Larsen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political p..
Rudd
For other uses of Rudd, please see Rudd (disambiguation). The Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) is a small fish, a widespread member of the family Cyprinidae. The rudd is a bentho-pelagic freshwater fish, widely spread in Europe and middle Asia, around the basins of the North, Baltic Black, Ca..
Rudd's Mouse
The Rudd's Mouse or the White-bellied Brush-furred Rat, Uranomys ruddi, is the only member of the genus Uranomys. This animal is closely related to the spiny mice, brush-furred mice, and the Link Rat. Description Head and body range from 8.4-13.4 cm. Tail length is 5.3-7.9 cm. Weight is 41-53 g..
Rudd, Iowa
Rudd is a city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States. The population was 431 at the 2000 census. Geography Rudd is located at [43°7′43″N, 92°54′13″W] (43.128528, -92.903713)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a tota..
Rudder
The world's oldest depiction of a stern rudder. Pottery model of a junk, 1st century CE. Kuangchow National Museum (drawing). A rudder is a device used to steer ships, boats, submarines, aircraft, hovercraft or other conveyances that move through air or water. Rudders operate by re-directing t..
Rudderfish
The rudderfish (Centrolophus niger) is a medusafish, the only member of the genus Centrolophus found in all tropical and temperate oceans of the world, at depths of from 50 to 1,000 metres. Its length is from 60 to 150 centimetres. The rudderfish is a moderately elongate blunt-headed fish with l..
Rudderow class destroyer escort
The Rudderow class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943 to 1945. Of this class, 22 were completed as destroyer escorts, many others were converted to Crosley class fast transports and were re-classified as APDs, and many of the class were cancelled near the..
Rudder ratio
Rudder ratio refers to a value that is monitored by the computerized flight control systems in modern aircraft. The ratio relates the aircraft airspeed to the rudder deflection setting that's in effect at the time. As an aircraft accelerates the deflection of the rudder needs to be reduced proporti..
Rudder v. Microsoft Corp.
Rudder v. Microsoft Corp. (1999) is the leading decision on clickwrap licenses and forum selection clauses in Canada. Contents 1 Background2 Opinion of the Court3 See also4 External links Background Rudder brought a class action on behalf of MSN subscribers in Canada for, am..
Ruddigore
Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan. It was first performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the ..
Ruddington
Ruddington is an English village (twinned with Grenay, France) situated five miles south of Nottingham in the Borough of Rushcliffe. It has a population of about 6,500 people. Being fiercely independent, residents have conducted high profile campaigns to retain the village's rural identity and preve..
Ruddle, West Virginia
Ruddle is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Ruddle lies along U.S. Highway 220. According to the Geographic Names Information System, Ruddle was originally known by the names of Ruddle Mill and Ruddle's Mill. External link..
Ruddles Brewery
Ruddles Brewery is a former English brewery now owned by Greene King, who still brews their beers under the Ruddles name. The brewery was established in 1858 in Langham, Rutland. This was the home of the brewery, until it was closed in 1997. Morland & Co of Abingdon took over Ruddles Brewery in 19..
Ruddock
Ruddock can refer to the following: Albert Billings Ruddock, namesake of Caltech's Ruddock HouseDonovan "Razor" Ruddock, the professional boxerJoan Ruddock, the Welsh politicianMargot Ruddock, the actress and poetMike Ruddock, the Welsh rubgy player and coachNeil "Razor" Ruddock, the English footba..
Ruddock v Vadarlis
Ruddock v Vadarlis (also known as the Tampa case) was an important Australian court case decided in the Federal Court of Australia on 18 September 2001. It concerned the actions of the Government of Australia in preventing asylum seekers aboard the Norwegian cargo vessel MV Tampa from entering Aus..
Ruddy
Ruddy is a reddish or rosy colour, usually considered a dirty, dusty or dark-coloured reddish orange. It can also mean a shade of orangey brown, like the colour found on the Ruddy Duck, or even a rich red. ..
Ruddy-breasted Crake
The Ruddy-breasted Crake (Porzana fusca) is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae. Its breeding habitat is swamps and similar wet areas across south Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to south China, Japan and Indonesia. This crake nests in a dry location on the ground in marsh ..
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-thrush
The Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush, Catharus frantzii, is a small thrush which is a resident breeder in highlands from central Mexico to western Panama. It is found in the undergrowth of wet mountain oak and conifer forests and second growth, typically from about 1350 m to 3500 m altit..
Ruddy-headed Goose
The Ruddy-headed Goose (Chloephaga rubidiceps) is a large sheldgoose, which breeds in southernmost South America. It breeds on open grassy plains in Tierra del Fuego, Chile and the Falkland Islands. The South American birds are now very rare. They winters on lowlands in southern Argentina, som..
Ruddy Darter
The Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) is a European species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae. Description The Ruddy Darter attains a wingspan of up to 6 cm. The head, thorax and abdomen of the male are vivid red, while the female is slightly smaller, and is a golden-yellow colour wit..
Ruddy Duck
The Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is a small stiff-tailed duck. Adult males have a rust-red body, a blue bill and a white face with a black cap. Adult females have a grey-brown body with a greyish face with a darker bill, cap and a cheek stripe. The southern subspecies ferruginea is occasionall..
Ruddy Ground Dove
The Ruddy Ground Dove, Columbina talpacoti, is a small New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder from the southwesternmost USA and Mexico south to Peru, Brazil and Paraguay, and on Trinidad and Tobago. The Ruddy Ground Dove is very common in scrub and other open country, including cultiva..
Ruddy Kingfisher
The Ruddy Kingfisher (Halcyon coromanda) is a medium-sized tree kingfisher which is widely distributed in east and southeast Asia, ranging from South Korea and Japan in the north, south through the Philippines to the Sunda Islands, and west to China and India. It is migratory, with birds in the n..
Ruddy Lugo
Ruddy Lugo (born on May 22, 1980 in Barahona, Dominican Republic) is a major league pitcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He bats and throws right-handed. Lugo is the younger brother of shortstop Julio Lugo. Lugo was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 3rd round of the 1999 amateur baseball ..
Ruddy Pigeon
The Ruddy Pigeon, (Patagioenas subvinacea or Columba subvinacea ), is a largish pigeon which breeds from Costa Rica south to western Ecuador, Bolivia and central Brazil. It is found in highland forest canopy and semi-open woodland from 1500 m altitude to the timberline. It builds a rudimenta..
Ruddy Rodríguez
Ruddy Rosario Rodríguez de Lucía (born March 20, 1967 in Anaco, Venezuela, daughter of Venezuelan Pedro José Rodríguez and Italian Rita de Lucía) is an actress and a model. Contents 1 Career1.1 Telenovelas and TV Series1.2 Movies1.3 Theater2 Scientology3 Perso..
Ruddy Shelduck
The Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae. There are very small resident populations of this species in north west Africa and Ethiopia, but the main breeding area of this species is from south east E..
Ruddy Woodcreeper
The Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from southern Mexico to northern Colombia and extreme northern Venezuela. This woodcreeper is found in lowlands and foothills up to 1500 m in forest and adjacent semi-open woodland and clea..
Rudd (disambiguation)
Rudd is a surname, and may refer to: Bevil RuddDelaney RuddDwayne RuddJohn Rudd (cartographer)Kevin RuddMark RuddMike RuddNigel RuddPaul RuddPhil RuddRicky RuddRoswell RuddRudd (Greyhawk), a fictional characterSteele RuddXavier Rudd Rudd can also mean: Rudd, a fishRudd, Iowa ..
Rudd (Greyhawk)
Greyhawk Deity Rudd Title(s) The Charm, the Duelist Homeplane Oerth Power Level Demigod Alignment Chaotic Neutral (Chaotic Good) Portfolio Chance, Good Luck, and Skill Domains Chaos, Good, Luck ..
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity is a scientific and public policy organization in New Haven, Connecticut. Formed at Yale University, the Rudd Center was co-founded in March, 2005 by benefactor Leslie Rudd and Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., to improve food policy and fight obesity and weight ..
Rudd Weatherwax
Ruddell "Rudd" Weatherwax (September 23, 1907 – February 25, 1985) was an American actor and animal trainer. He and his brother Frank Weatherwax are best remembered for training dogs for motion pictures and television. Frank's collie, Pal, became the original Lassie, handled by Rudd for the 19..
Rudeboy clothing
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Rudehen
Tomb of Sultan Mutahhar, Bumehen neighborhood of Roudehen. The current structure was built in the 15th century and contains the tomb of the murdered son of Jafar as Sadiq. Rudehen is a small city in Iran east of Tehran. In 1985 a branch of Azad University established in Rudehen and after that, ..
Rudell Stitch
Rudell Stitch was a professional boxer who was once ranked as the #2 welterweight contender in the world. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 26, 1933. As an amateur, he won 45 fights and won Kentucky state titles as a lightweight and as a welterweight. He won Kentucky state titles in 1..
Rudelsburg
left The castle ruin Rudelsburg is located on the eastern banks of river Saale near Bad Kösen in the district Burgenlandkreis of Saxony-Anhalt. The construction of this castle was begun in 1050 with extensions in 1150. It is surrounded by the Memorials of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband..
Ruden
The Ruden is a small island in the Baltic Sea, located between Rügen and Usedom off the German coast. The Ruden belongs to the German state (Bundesland) of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Before the storm tide of All Saints day 1320, it was part of a land bridge between Usedom and the Mönchgut pe..
Rudeness
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rudeness is the (apparent) disrespect and failure to behave within the context of a society or a group of people's social laws or etiquette. These laws have already unspokenly been established as the essential boundaries of normall..
Rudens (play)
Rudens is a play by Roman author, Plautus, thought to have been written around 211 BC. Its name translates from Latin as 'The Rope'. It is a comedy, which describes how a girl, Palaestra, stolen from her parents by pirates, is reunited with her father, Daemones, ironically, by means of her pimp, L..
Ruderal species
A ruderal species is a plant species that is first to colonise disturbed lands. The disturbance may be natural (e.g., wildfires or avalanches), or man-made - constructional (e.g., road construction, building construction or mining), or agricultural (e.g., abandoned farming fields or abandoned irri..
Rudersberg
Rudersberg is a municipality in the Rems-Murr district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located 10 km southeast of Backnang, and 28 km northeast of Stuttgart. ..
Rudersdal municipality
As of January 1, 2007 Rudersdal municipality will, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), come into existence as a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Denmark. It will consist of the (what are currently existing, but on January 1 2007) former municipalities of Søllerø..
Ruder Finn
Ruder Finn is an United States public relations firm. Founded in 1948 by David Finn and William Ruder, it is one of the largest privately held firms in America. Originally called Art In Industry, Inc., their first client as Ruder & Finn was Perry Como. His success that year led to other celebrity ..
Ruder Than You
Ruder Than You is an American ska band that was founded in 1989 at Penn State University and, in 1991, the group relocated to Philadelphia. While ska and reggae stylings have always provided the common musical thread, over the past 15 plus years Ruder Than You has been mixing in dancehall reggae, ..
Rude (magazine)
Rude Magazine was a Canadian magazine published in London, Ontario in 1978. It was published by Joe Thomas, Mike Bidner and Roy Berger. It ran for two issues printing work by Gerard Pas, Mike Hannay, Orlo Miller and many other local writers and artists. ..
Rude Awakening
Rude Awakening can refer to the following films: 1908 silent film by French director Georges Méliès.1975 short film by American director Warren Sonbert.1989 film by David Greenwalt and Aaron Russo. Rude Awakening (1998-2001) is the name of a TV Series created by Claudia Lonow, starring Sherilyn Fe..
Rude Awakening (album)
Rude Awakening is Prong's sixth album. This album includes Tommy Victor, Ted Parsons and Raven. Rude Awakening is an Enhanced CD and it includes the MTV music video, "Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck." Tracklisting "Controller" - 3:39"Caprice" - 2:46"Rude Awakening" - 4:18"Unfortunately" - 3:08"F..
Rude Awakening (DVD)
Rude Awakening (DVD) is a live recording of a 2001 Megadeth concert. The show that is featured is from an Arizona concert, whereas the original idea was it to be filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The latter was cancelled due to the 9/11 attacks. Track list Songs Dread and the Fugitive MindKill the..
Rude Awakening (Megadeth album)
Rude Awakening, Megadeth's last album before the band was broken up for the first time in 2002, was released by Sanctuary Records in 2002. (The band was 'restarted' in 2004, with only Dave Mustaine remaining from the previous lineup.) The album was going to be recorded live at a concert in Argent..
Rude Awakening (TV series)
Rude Awakening is a TV series created by Claudia Lonow, aired by Showtime on 55 30-min episodes for 3 seasons (1998-2001) Contents 1 Story2 Cast3 Episode listing3.1 1st Season 19983.2 2nd Season 19994 3rd Season 20005 External link Story This bittersweet ser..
Rude awakening presente
Rude Awakening presente is a record label based in Montpellier (southern France). Created in 2003, the catalogue now includes 8 references mainly contemporary jazz and improvised music but also improvised jazz electro, contemporary pop, and abstract hip hop. Cover design are realised by Nicolas Cl..
Rude boy
Rude boy, rudie, rudi or rudy is a subculture that developed in the early 1960s in Jamaica. The term rude boy came from Jamaican slang for "cool" or "hip," as the rude boys, in the dancehalls and daily life, always dressed in the latest fashions. The term rude boy may also have something to do w..
Rude Boy: The Jamaican Don
Rude Boy is the name of a 2003 movie which features Julius, a Jamaican Gangsta who has big dreams of becoming the biggest reggae DJ in the U.S. When his entry status is jeopardized, he makes a deal with the devil and agrees to carry a bag of contraband through customs in exchange for his papers. Un..
Rude boy (disambiguation)
The term rude boy may refer to: Rude boy, a Jamaican subcultureRude Boy (film)[[Rude Boy: The Jamaican Don]] This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point dire..
Rude Boy (film)
Rude Boy is a 1980 film about a roadie for the punk band The Clash. The movie was named after the rudeboy subculture. starring: Ray Gangescreenplay by: David Mingay, Ray Gange and Jack Hazanmusic by: Joe Strummer and Mick Jonesproduced and directed by: Jack Hazan and David Mingay Links [IMDb ..
Rude Boy Records
Rude Boy Records is a European independent record label focusing in underground hiphop and rap that was founded in the beginning of the ninties as its own enterprise by Andric Stanelle Records. Also, Rude Boy Records is a publishing company. In the beginning of its company history, the label mainly..
Rude Britain
Rude Britain (subtitled 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain) is a 2005 book of humour and toponymy. The book (ISBN 0752225812) is written by Rob Bailey and Ed Hurst, and published in the United Kingdom by the Pan Macmillan imprint Boxtree. Each of the 100 names chosen by the authors are accompanie..
Rude Buddha
Rude Buddha is a punk/ska group from Sterling, VA. They include Aaron Crawford with Vocals/Guitar, Jake Barnhart with Guitar/Vocals, Chris Brooks with Bass, and Josh Barnhart with Drums. Their albums include Fighter(late 2004), Sterling Park EP(early 2004), and Underdogs(2001). [Rude Bud..
Rude Dog
Rude Dog was a white cartoon dog developed by Sun Sportswear in the 1980s as part of a line of surfing- and skateboarding-related clothing. The character was a stylized version of a Bull Terrier, and the name "Rude" had the dual purpose of glorifying bad behavior and referring to the Rude boy subcul..
Rude Jude
Rude Jude, a native of Pontiac, Michigan, was a routine guest of The Jenny Jones Show, and now co-hosts The All Out Show with Lord Sear on Sirius Satellite Radio's Shade 45 channel. He appeared on rapper Proof's album Searching for Jerry Garcia, on the track "M.A.D." ..
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a radical marching band based in New York City that was founded in 2004. According to the group's mission statement, they exist in order to serve the efforts of progressive and radical groups and causes. Such causes include feminism and women's rights, the gay ..
Rude Mood
"Rude Mood" is the sixth track on Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album Texas Flood. It is a blues shuffle instrumental in 4/4 (common time) and played at a blazing 264 beats per minute (making it possibly the fastest song of its genre). It is noted for being very technically challenging. Structure The ..
Rudé právo
A Czechoslovak propaganda poster celebrating the 50th anniversary of Rudé právo's founding Rudé právo (Czech for The Red Right or The Red Law) was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Its (independent) successor is Právo daily. It was founded in 1920 when ..
Rude Rides Again
Rude Rides Again is an Australian comedy album, performed by Rodney Rude and released in 1986. The album was recorded in front of a live audience at the Gold Coast. Track listing Funny (18:34) (Rodney/Pat/Mick)Piss Funny (18:52) (Rodney/Pat/Mick) ..
Rudger Clawson
Rudger Judd Clawson (March 12, 1857-June 21, 1943) (commonly known as Rudger Clawson) was a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from 1898 until his death in 1943. He also served as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1921 un..
Rudgeway
Rudgeway is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. It is located between Alveston and Almondsbury. The A38 trunk road runs through the village. There is a major junction for Yate and the east of the county. The petrol station in the village closed a few years ago (due to competition from garag..
RUDI
The Referential Universal Digital Index (RUDI) is a fictional computer seen on The Jetsons. On The Jetsons, George Jetson’s job was being the digital index operator for the computer. RUDI wasn’t actually a recurring character until the second season (1984), and he wasn’t given a ..
Rudi
Rudi were a New Wave/Punk band formed in 1975 in east Belfast. The original members of the band were Brian Young, Ronnie Mathews, Graham Marshall, Leigh Carson and Drew Brown. The name "Rudi" came from a a single called "Oo Oo Rudi" by The Jook, which was a favorite among the members of the newly..
Rudiano
Coat of arms Map Statistics Region: Lombardy Province: Brescia Location: ..
Rudianos
In Celtic mythology, Rudianos was a war god worshipped in Gaul. He was represented as a horseman carrying five severed heads. In Roman times he was equated with Mars. ..
Rudie's de Mexico
Rudie's de Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V., is a manufacturing plant located in the municipality of Tepeji del Rio, State of Hidalgo, Mexico; owned by [Rubie's Costume Company, Incorporated], the world's largest manufacturer of Halloween and Carnival products. Rudie's also manufactures a wide ..
Rudiment
A rudiment is one of a set of basic patterns used in rudimental drumming. These patterns form the basic building blocks or "vocabulary" of drumming, and can be combined in a more-or-less infinite variety of ways to create drumming music. There have been many attempts to formalise a standard list of..
Rudimentary Peni
Rudimentary Peni was a band that lurked in the shadows of success of the British anarcho-punk movement, occassionaly venturing into what would become to be known as deathrock. The band's lyrics alternate between witty macabre (written by Nick Blinko) and socio-political lyrics (written by Grant Matt..
Rudina
Rudina is a small village on the island of Hvar, in the Adriatic sea in Croatia. It is located near Stari Grad. The village has a population of about 20 people, mostly fishermen. There is a lagoon, Žukova, located there. Rudina has become an escape for the art community during the summer months. ..
Rudists
Rudists are a group of bivalves that peaked in abundance and diversity during the late Mesozoic era, particuarly in the Cretaceous period, at the end of which they became extinct. Their "classic" morphology consisted of a lower, roughly conical valve that was attached to the seafloor or to neighbor..
Rudis rattail
The rudis rattail (Coryphaenoides armatus) is a fish of the genus Coryphaenoides, found in all the world's tropical and subtropical oceans, at depths of between 600 and 2,300 metres. Its length is between 30 and 40 centimetres, although Fishbase gives lengths of up to 1.1 metres. The rudis rat..
Rudi Altig
Rudi Altig in 2005. Rudi Altig (born 18 March 1937 in Mannheim, Germany) is a former leading professional track and road racing cyclist during the 1960s and a current TV commentator. In 1960 and 1961, Altig became world champion in the individual pursuit on the track. On the road in 1962, he..
Rudi Arnstadt
Rudi Arnstadt (September 3, 1926 – August 14, 1962) was an East German border guard who was shot and killed while serving as a captain of the border troops of the former East Germany. He was shot by Hans Plüschke, a twenty three year old West German border guard. The incident took place at W..
Rudi Assauer
Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer (born April 30, 1944 in Altenwald) is a former German football manager and former player. Due to his habit of smoking a great number of cigars, he has been given the nickname "Stumpen-Rudi", or Cheroot Rudi. Born in Saarland, Assauer played in 307 matches for Borussia Dortm..
Rudi Bakhtiar
News anchor Rudi Bakhtiar Rudi Bakhtiar (born June 21, 1966 in Fresno, California) (born Rudabeh Bakhtiar, in Persian:رودابه بختیار) is an Iranian-American journalist, working for the Fox News Channel. Although born in Ca..
Rudi Ball
Rudi Ball (March 27, 1910 - September 1975) was the only person of Jewish descent to represent Germany in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. He, and his two brothers Gerhard Ball and Heinz Ball, represented Germany in many international competitions in their hockey careers. External Links [Ru..
Rudi Bryson
Rudi BrysonSouth Africa (SA) Batting style Right-handed batsman Bowling type Right-arm fast-medium Tests ODIs Matches - 7 '''Runs scored - 32 Batting average - 32.00 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score - 17* ..
Rudi Čajavec
Rudi Čajavec (April 1st, 1911 - July 2nd, 1942) was a Yugoslav pilot, best known as the first airman of Partisan air force. Rudi Čajavec was born in Zgošča, near Kakanj to a family that originally came from Hrvatsko Zagorje. Before the war he studied law at University of Zagreb where he partici..
Rudi Carrell
Rudi Carrell (December 19, 1934 in Alkmaar, Netherlands — July 7, 2006 in Bremen, Germany), born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar, was a Dutch entertainer. He worked as a television entertainer and hosted his own show. The Rudi Carrell Show ran first in the Netherlands, then in Germany for many years. ..
Rudi Cerne
Rudi Cerne (born September 26 1958 in Wanne-Eickel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) was a German figure skater and now works as a TV presenter. Rudi Cerne skated for the club Herner EV and represented West Germany. His coach was Günter Zöller. In 1978 and 1980 he won the German Figure Skating C..
Rudi Charles Loehwing
Lord Rudi Charles Loehwing (born July 26 1957) is a Baron in the United Kingdom and President of the World Institute of Natural Health Sciences. He was Born to Rudy C. Loehwing and Joan Marie (Bell), Married, Lady Claire (Popham) and is the fafther of the Honourable Apasia Joyce, Tesia Victoria, Rud..
Rudi Dornbusch
Rudi Dornbusch (Rüdiger Dornbusch, June 8, 1942 - July 25 2002) was a German economist born in Krefeld. He spent the majority of his career teaching at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Department of Economics. Earlier in his career, he taught at University of Rochester and the Univer..
Rudi Dutschke
Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke, known as Rudi Dutschke (March 7, 1940 – December 24, 1979, Århus, Denmark) was the most prominent spokesperson of the left-wing German student movement of the 1960s. In 1968, he survived an assassination attempt by a right-wing extremist, living for another twe..
Rudi Federspiel
Rudi Federspiel (* July 1949 in St. Anton a. Arlberg) is a Tyrolean politician and federal state parliament delegate. The Innsbrucker politician became famous, when he first initiated the big new years eve party in Innsbruck in 1994. After his exclusion from the FPÖ Federspiel founded his own pol..
Rudi Fehr
Rudi Fehr (July 6, 1911 - April 16, 1999) was a film editor whose credits include House of Wax (1953), I Confess (1953), Dial M for Murder (1954), and John Huston-directed Prizzi's Honor (1985). The Berlin, Germany-born editor was nominated for an Oscar, along with fellow editor Kaja Fehr, for Priz..
Rudi Fink
Gold medal 1980Moscow Boxing Men's Featherweight Rudi Fink (born June 6, 1958 in Cottbus) is a retired boxer from Germany, who won the gold medal in the Featherweight division (-57 kg) for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he defeated Cuba's Adolfo Horta o..
Rudi Fischer
Rudi Fischer (Rudolf Fischer) (born April 19 1912; died December 30 1976) was a Formula One driver from Switzerland. He participated in 7 grands prix, debuting on May 27, 1951. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 10 championship points. Complete Formula One results (Note: grands prix in..
Rudi Gernreich
Rudi Gernreich (August 8, 1922–April 21, 1985) was a fashion designer and gay activist. Born in Vienna, he fled Austria at age 16 due to Nazism. He came to the USA, settling in Los Angeles, California. For a time, he had a career as a dancer, performing with the Lester Horton company around 19..
Rudi Gunn
Rudi Gunn is a character in the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by acclaimed novelist Clive Cussler. He is played by Rainn Wilson in the movie Sahara. Gunn is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating first in his class. He formerly held the rank of Commander in the Navy. Joined NUMA at the same ..
Rudi Holzapfel
Rudolf Patrick (Rudi) Holzapfel, born in Paris, France, on December 11, 1938 is an Irish poet and teacher. His father, Rudolf Melander Holzapfel (1900-1982), was a Shakespeare scholar, expert on Old Master paintings, and art dealer. His mother, Mona Trew Holzapfel, was an original member of the ren..
Rudi Johnson
Rudi Johnson --> Position Halfback Team Cincinnati Bengals Number 32 Height 5 ft 10 in Weight 225 lb Age 26 College Auburn University Drafted 4th Round, 100th Pick (2001) Rudi Ali Johnson (born October 1, 1979 in Petersburg, Virginia) is an American football runnin..
Rudi Koertzen
Rudolf Eric Koertzen (born: March 26 1949, Knysna, Cape Province) otherwise known as Rudi Koertzen is an international cricket umpire. A cricket enthusiast since his youth, Koertzen played league cricket and became an umpire in 1981. His "slow death" style of indicating that a batsman is out makes ..
Rudi Mittig
Rudi Mittig born 26 January 1925 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia, died 28 August 1994 in Germany. Stasi career Mittig served as Deputy Minister of the Stasi from 1975 to 1989 under Erich Mielke. Upon dissolution of the Stasi in 1989, he served as head of the successor Office of National Security un..
Rudi Moser
Rudi Moser is the drummer for Einstürzende Neubauten as well as the latest incarnation of Die Haut, which also includes EN guitarist Jochen Arbeit. Rudi also collaborated with Robert Rutman on his last Steel Cello album entitled Zuuhh!! Muttie Mum! Rudi is also part of mosermeyerdöring, an expe..
Rudi Scholtz
Rudi Scholtz (born February 23, 1979) was a South African-born Namibian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Playing for the Namibia Under-19s, he performed in five matches in Youth One-day Internationals in 1997. Four years later, he would play at senior lev..
Rudi Smidts
Rudi Smidts (born August 12, 1963 in Deurne) is a former Belgian football defender. His former clubs include KV Mechelen and R. Antwerp F.C.. Smidts also played for the Belgium and was in the squad for the 1994 World Cup, where he played four matches. ..
Rudi Stephan
Rudi Stephan, born Worms, 29 July 1887, killed in action at Ghodazkow-Wielki near Tarnopol on the Galician Front, 29 September 1915, was a German composer of great promise who shortly before World War I was considered one of the leading talents among his generation. Stephan was a pupil of Bernhard ..
Rudi Steyn
Rudi SteynSouth Africa (RSA) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests ODIs Matches 3 1 '''Runs scored 127 4 Batting average 21.16 4.00 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score 46 4 ..
Rudi Supek
Rudi Supek (Zagreb, 8 April 1913 - Zagreb, 2 January 1993) was a Croat Marxist sociologist, member of the Praxis school. Supek has graduated philosophy in Zagreb. He went to study clinical psychology in Paris, where he was when the World War 2 has erupted. He has joined the resistance movement, but..
Rudi van Dantzig
Rudi van Dantzig (Amsterdam, August 4 1933), is a Dutch choreographer, ballet dancer and writer. Since 1965 he is co-artistic leader of Het Nationale Ballet (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). After Sonia Gaskell (left in 1969) and his other colleague left in 1971, he was the only artistic leader, til..
Rudi van Vuuren
Rudolph Janse van Vuuren (born 1972-09-20 in Windhoek, Namibia) is a Namibian sportsman. He is best known for representing his country in both the 2003 Cricket World Cup and the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup. He is the only Namibian so far to have taken five wickets in a one-day international, which he..
Rudi Vis
Dr Sir Rudolf Jan Vis (born 4 April 1941, Netherlands) is a politician in the United Kingdom for the Labour Party. He currently sits as member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green — the former constituency of Margaret Thatcher — which he won in the 1997 general election. This wa..
Rudi Völler
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Rudi Wilfer
Rudi Wilfer (14 September 1936 -) was an Austrian pianist and composer. The composer and pianist Rudi Wilfer began his large career already as a jazz musician in the year 1959. Jazzpianist and teacher at the conservatory in Vienna. Played with Uzzi Förster Band, Fatty George Band, Slide Hampton, ..
Rudjer Boscovich
Rudjer Josip Boscovich Rudjer Joseph BoscovichBoscovich is sometimes, even in English literature, referred to by his name in other languages: (May 18, 1711 – February 13, 1787) was a Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, and Jesuit from Ragusa (today..
Rudjer Boskovic Institute
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. Rudjer Boskovic Institute ..
Rudkhan Castle
Rud-Khan Castle, Seljuk era, Iran. Rud-khan castle (also Rood-khan castle), is a brick and stone medieval castle in Iran. Located 25 km southwest of Foman city north of Iran in Gilan province, it is a military complex which had been constructed during the Seljuk Dynasty. The Castle is built o..
Rudkøbing
Rudkøbing is a city in central Denmark, located in Rudkøbing municipality on the island of Langeland. The physicist and chemist Hans Christian Orsted was born in Rudkøbing. External links [Rudkøbing municipality] ..
Rudkøbing municipality
Rudkøbing municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the island of Langeland in south-central Denmark. The municipality includes the islands of Strynø and Strynø Kalv, and covers an area of 63 km². It has a total population of 6,676 (2005). Its mayor is Johan Norden, ..
Rudmore
Rudmore is a district located on the western shore of Portsea Island and is part of the city of Portsmouth. The area used to be a residential area, mainly catering for employees of the naval dockyard and their families. It was heavily damaged by bombing during World War II. In the late 1960s and ea..
Rudnaya Pristan
Rudnaya Pristan (Russian: ) is a rural settlement located at the mouth of the Rudnaya River, on the Pacific coast of Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East. It is 35 km east of Dalnegorsk (in jurisdiction of which it is located) and approximately 514 km north of Vladivostok, located at &#..
Rudna Glava
Rudna Glava, is a site in present-day eastern Serbia that demonstrates early (and perhaps the earliest) evidence of European copper mining and metallurgy, ca. 5th millennium BC. Shafts were cut into the hillside, with scaffolding constructed for easy access to the veins of ore. It is related to th..
Rudnichny
Rudnichny may refer to: Rudnichny, Kemerovo Oblast, an urban settlement in Kemerovo Oblast, RussiaRudnichny, Kirov Oblast, an urban settlement in Kirov Oblast, RussiaRudnichny, a former urban settlement in Perm Oblast; since 2004—a part of the town of Kizel [link]Rudnichny, Sverdlovs..
Rudnik
Rudnik is a mountain in central Serbia, around 100 km south of Belgrade. The highest peak is Cvijićev vrh, at 1132 m. The name litteraly translates to a mine, as the mountain is rich in mining resources. ..
Rudniki
Rudniki is one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk, Poland. External link [Map of Rudniki]   Gdańsk ..
Rudnyansky District
Rudnyansky District is the name of several places: Rudnyansky District, a district in Smolensk Oblast, Russia. Rudnyansky District, a district in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that ot..
Rudo
РудоRudo --> Entity Republika Srpska Mayor Milko Čilaković Surface (km²) 344 km² Population(2004) 11.572 (1991.) Time zone (UTC) UTC+1 Central European Time Rudo }} Rudo (Serbian Cyrillic: Рудо) is a town in eastern Republika Srpska, Bosnia a..
Rudok
Rudok is a small town on the Ladakh frontier of Tibet. Rudok is picturesquely situated on the side of a hill standing isolated in the plain near the east end of Lake Pangong. The houses are built in tiers, whitewashed and walled in. At the top of the hill are a large palace and several monasteries p..
Rudolf, Count of Montescaglioso
Rudolf (also Rudolph, Ralph, or Raoul) (died 1108), called Maccabeus, Maccabeo, or Maccabees, was the second count of Montescaglioso from the death of his father Robert in 1080. During the three-year period between the death of the Guiscard in 1085 and the peace between his sons Bohemond and Roge..
Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion
Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Dresden, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Dynamo Dresden. The stadium is able to hold 28,500 people and was built in 1923. ..
Rudolfinum
The Rudolfinum is one of the most important neo-renaissance buildings in Prague. It is named after the Austrian crown prince and situated at the Palach square on the bank of the river Vltava. Currently it is the home-stage of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. External link [Official site of C..
Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya (born October 30, 1937, Pastura, New Mexico) is one of the best-known American authors to write in the Spanish language. He has written seven novels, the first and most famous of which is Bless Me, Ultima, written in 1972 and considered the best-known and most-respected example..
Rudolfsheim
Rudolfsheim is a neighborhood of the district Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus in Vienna, Austria. It consists of Braunhirschen, Reindorf and Rustendorf. Districts of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus Rudolfsheim (Braunhirschen - Reindorf - Rustendorf) - Fünfhaus - Sechshaus ..
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
15th District of Vienna Coat of Arms Map Name: Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus Area: 3.92 km² Population: 64,895 (as of 2001) Density: 16,555 people per km² Postal code: A-1150 Address of District Office: Gasgasse 8-10A-1150 Wien Official Website: [www.wien.gv.at/rud..
Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg
Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg is a municipality in the district of Bremgarten, in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Prior to 1953, the municipality was officially known simply as Rudolfstetten. The first documentary mention of the village appeared in 1190 when Rudolfstettin was gifted in a deed to t..
Rudolf Arndt
Rudolf Arndt is a German psychiatrist, born March 31, 1835, Bialken, administrative and governmental district of Marienwerder; died January 1900. Rudolf Arndt studied in Greifswald and Halle, preferably under Felix von Niemeyer (1820-1871), Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1819-1895), and Heinrich Ph..
Rudolf Arnheim
Rudolf Arnheim (born July 151904) is a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He himself has said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), Visual Thinking (1969), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition ..
Rudolf Augstein
Rudolf Karl Augstein (November 5, 1923 - November 7, 2002) was one of the most influential German journalists, founder and part-owner of Der Spiegel magazine. Born in Hanover, Germany, he was a radio operator and artillery observer in Hitler's Wehrmacht during World War II. He founded Der Spiegel ..
Rudolf August Oetker
Rudolf August Oetker (1916-) runs the private Oetker Group—a household name in Germany. Oetker products include baking powder, cake mixes, honey and frozen pizza. Also included in the portfolio: a successful maritime freight business, a bank, grocery stores, a publishing company, an insurance outf..
Rudolf Bahro
Rudolf Bahro (18 November 1935 – 5 December 1997) was born in 1935 in Bad Flinsberg (now in Poland). He joined the East German Socialist Unity Party in 1954 as a student of philosophy at the Berlin Humboldt University. From 1959-1960 he took part in the campaign to collectivise agriculture in..
Rudolf Barshai
Rudolf Barshai Rudolf Borisovich Barshai (Russian: , born on September 28, 1924) is a Soviet/Russian conductor and viola player. Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. He studied in Moscow Conservatory under Prof. Tseitlin and Borisovsky. He performed solo as a vi..
Rudolf Bauer (athlete)
Rudolf Bauer (January 2, 1879 - November 9, 1932) was the winner of the gold medal in the men's discus throw at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Bauer was from Hungary. Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Olympic Champions in Men's Discus Throw Robert Garrett | Rudolf Bauer | Martin Sheridan (..
Rudolf Bauer (politician)
RNDr. Rudolf Bauer (born on September 28, 1957 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia) was the first President of the Košice Self-governing Region (since December 19, 2001 till January 8, 2006). He is also a former mathematician, the Mayor of the town of Košice and a deputy of the National Council of the Slo..
Rudolf Baumbach
Rudolf Baumbach (28 September 1840 - 21 September 1905) was a German poet. Born in Kranichfeld in Thuringia, Germany, the son of a local medical practitioner, he received his early schooling at the gymnasium of Meiningen, to which place his father had moved. After studying natural science in variou..
Rudolf Baumgartner
Rudolf Baumgartner (1917 in Zurich/Switzerland - 2002 in Siena/Italy) was a Swiss conductor and violinist. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. ..
Rudolf Bayer
Rudolf Bayer has been Professor (emeritus) of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich since 1972. He is famous for inventing two data sorting structures: the B-tree with Edward M. McCreight, and later the UB-tree with Volker Markl. He is a recipient of 2001 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innova..
Rudolf Belling
Rudolf Belling (1886 - 1972) was a German sculptor. Artistic theories At the very beginning of the 20th century Rudolf Belling’s name was something like a battlecry. The composer of the “Dreiklang” (triad) evoked frequent and hefty discussions. He was the first who took up again thoughts of ..
Rudolf Benesh
Rudolf Benesh (1916-1975, London, England) was a mathematician and created the Benesh Movement Notation for dancing. He was son of a Czech father and an Anglo-Italian mother. Rudolf Benesh worked as a mathematician while his wife Joan was a dancer in Sadler's Wells ballet in the late 1940s. She was..
Rudolf Beran
Rudolf Beran (December 28, 1887-April 23, 1954) was a Czechoslovakian politician who served as prime minister of the country before its occupation by Nazi Germany and shortly thereafter, before it was declared a protectorate. A leader of the Agrarian Party since 1933 he was appointed prime minister ..
Rudolf Bommer
Bronze medal 1988Seoul Football Men's Team Competition Rudolf ("Rudi") Bommer (born August 19, 1957) is a former German footballer and football manager. Born in Aschaffenburg, he played 417 games between 1976 and 1997 for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Bayer Uerdingen and Eintracht Frankfurt. H..
Rudolf Brandt
Rudolf Brandt (June 2, 1909, Frankfurt (Oder) - June 2, 1948), was a SS officer and civil servant. A lawyer by profession, Brandt was Personal Administrative Officer to the Reichsführer SS (Persoenlicher Referent von Himmler) Heinrich Himmler, and a defendant at the Doctors' Trial. From 1938, he..
Rudolf Breitscheid
Rudolf Breitscheid, (November 2 1874, in Cologne, Germany - August 28? 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany) was a leader of the Social Democratic Party and delegate to the Reichstag during the era of the Weimar Republic in Germany. Breitscheid, the son of a bookshop manager, was born on..
Rudolf Brucci
Rudolf Brucci (March 30, 1917 – October 30, 2002), was a composer of Croatian and Italian origin, born in Zagreb. He was married to the famous Yugoslavian opera singer, Olga Brucci. He began his artistic life playing viola in various orchestras, ranging from the cabaret to the symphonic. Afte..
Rudolf Brun
Rudolf Brun (1290s - 17 September, 1360) was the leader of the Zürich guilds' revolution of 1336, and the city's first independent mayor. Since 1234, Zürich had been governed by an aristocratic council, composed to one third by members of the nobility and to two thirds by the city's patriciate, m..
Rudolf Bultmann
Rudolf Karl Bultmann (August 20, 1884 - July 30, 1976) was a German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg. His History of the Synoptic Tradition (1921) is still highly regarded as an essential tool for gospel rese..
Rudolf Burkert
Rudolf Burkert (1904-1985) was a German-born Czechoslovakian Nordic skiier who competed in the 1920's and 1930's. He won the Bronze Medal in the Individual Large Hill Ski jumping competition at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. He won the gold medal in Nordic combined in the 1927, the silver..
Rudolf Buttmann
Rudolf Buttmann was a German ambassador to the Vatican. ..
Rudolf Caracciola
Rudolf Caracciola (b. January 30, 1901 at Remagen, Germany, d. September 28, 1959), was a racing driver. Caracciola, born in Germany to a hotelier family in the Rhine valley, was a champion racer in Europe in the Grand Prix motor racing era of the 1920s and 1930s, and even into the early 1950s. Ni..
Rudolf Carl von Slatin
Sir Rudolf Carl von Slatin (June 27, 1857 – 1932), Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan, was born Ober St Veit near Vienna. At the age of seventeen he made his first journey to the Sudan, reaching Khartum by the Nile route in October 1875 in company with Theodor von Heuglin. ..
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf, Germany – September 14, 1970, Santa Monica, California) was an influential philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a prominent advoca..
Rudolf Charousek
Rudolf Rezső Charousek (1873 – 1900) was a Hungarian-Jewish chess player. A brilliant player, he had a tragically short career, dying from tuberculosis. Reuben Fine described him as the John Keats of chess. He was one of a few players who had a plus record against Emanuel Lasker. He defeate..
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudolf Eucken Rudolf Christoph Eucken (January 5, 1846 - September 15, 1926) was a Frisiann philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in Aurich, Hanover (now Germany), and studied at Göttingen University and Berlin University. In 1871, after five years ..
Rudolf Clausius
Rudolf Clausius - physicist and mathematician Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (January 2, 1822 – August 24, 1888), was a German physicist and mathematician. Clausius was one of the founders of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he pu..
Rudolf Criegee
Rudolf Criegee (1902-1975) was a German chemist. He studied at Tübingen, Greifswald, and Würzburg and received his doctorate at Würzburg in 1925. He proposed a reaction mechanism for ozonolysis in 1953. The Criegee rearrangement is named after him. ..
Rudolf Dassler
Rudolf Dassler (March 26, 1896 in Herzogenaurach (Germany) - October 27, 1974 in Herzogenaurach), is the German founder of the sportswear company PUMA and brother of Adidas founder, Adolf Dassler. Initially calling the company "Ruda" (Rudolf Dassler) it later changed to its present name of PUMA. U..
Rudolf Demme
Rudolf August Demme (June 3, 1894, Mühlhausen, Thuringia – January 5, 1975, Mecklenheim-Merl) was a German General during World War II. Promotions Gefreiter: July 24 1915Unteroffizier: September 22 1915Vizefeldwebel: June 3 1917Leutnant der Reserve: September 28 1917Oberleutnant der Reserve:..
Rudolf Diels
Rudolf Diels (December 16, 1900 - November 18, 1957) was a German politician. A protégé of Hermann Göring, Diels was in charge of the Gestapo from 1933 to 1934. He was born in Berghaus in Taunus, the son of a farmer. He served in the army during WW I and afterwards went to study law at the Unive..
Rudolf Diesel
This article is about Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor. For other uses of the word Diesel, see Diesel (disambiguation) Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913) Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (March 18, 1858 – September 30, 1913) was a German inventor, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine. He w..
Rudolf Dreikurs
Rudolf Dreikurs (February 8 1897, Vienna - May 25 1972, Chicago) was an American psychiatrist and educator who developed psychologist Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into a pragmatic method for understanding the purposes of reprehensible behaviour in children and for stimulating coop..
Rudolf Drößler
Rudolf Drößler (* May 18 1934 in Zeitz) is a German specialized book author and science-journalist. Rudolf Drößler spent his childhood in the German city Zeitz, where he made his general qualification for university entrance in 1952. He studied Germanistics as well as Astronomy in Leipzig till ..
Rudolf Elias Peersen
Rudolf Elias Peersen (1868-1949) was Norwegian Minister of Defense in 1919. ..
Rudolf Erich Raspe
Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736 - 1794) was a German librarian, writer and scientist, and he was told by his biographer John Carswell a "rogue". He is best known for his collection of tall tales: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, originally a satirical work with political aims. Raspe was born..
Rudolf Ewald Stier
Rudolf Ewald Stier (March 17, 1800 - December 16, 1862), was a German Protestant churchman and mystic. He was born at Fraustadt (Wschowa) in South Prussia. He studied at the University of Halle and Humboldt University, Berlin, first law and afterwards theology; and he continued his theological stu..
Rudolf F. Haffenreffer
Rudolf F. Haffenreffer (born circa 1902, died Sunday, April 28, 1991) was a Rhode Island industrialist and philanthropist. Among his numerous family enterprises he was best known for his role as president and chairman of the Narragansett Brewing Company. In 1955 Haffenreffer donated 376 acres of w..
Rudolf Fehrmann
Rudolf Fehrmann (1886 – 1947) , a German, was a pioneer rock climber at Elbsandsteingebirge near Dresden. He began climbing at the age of 17 and was soon at the leading edge of the fledgling sport. He and Oliver Perry-Smith, an American college student and fellow climber living in Dresden, became ..
Rudolf Firkušný
--> Rudolf Firkušný (1912-1994) was a Czech-American pianist with an elegant style. Firkušný studied with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianists Vilem Kurz, Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debut..
Rudolf Fittig
Rudolf Fittig, (1835-1910), German chemist, was born at Hamburg on 6 December 1835. He studied chemistry at Göttingen, graduating as Ph.D. with a dissertation on acetone in 1858. He subsequently held several appointments at Göttingen, being privat dozent (1860), and extraordinary professor (1870..
Rudolf Fizir
--> Rudolf Fizir (1891-1960) was an airplane constructor. Born in small town Ludbreg on river Drava, north of Croatia. He has built 18 original planes, some redesigns of planes to allow them land on water surface - and a parachute. With two-wing aircraft Fizir built 1925 he won the first prize in..
Rudolf Fleischmann
Rudolf Fleischmann (May 1, 1903, Erlangen - February 3, 2002, Erlangen) was a German physicist. He taught as a professor at the Hamburg University (1947-), Erlangen University (1953-). Literary works Umwandlungserscheinung bei leicht schmelzbaren Legierungen, 1927Physikalisches Begriffssystem und ..
Rudolf Friedrich
Rudolf Friedrich (born July 4, 1923) is a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 8, 1982 and, for health reason, handed over office already on October 20, 1984. He is affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. During his office time he held the Federal Department ..
Rudolf Friml
Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 - November 12, 1972) was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs, as well as a pianist. Contents 1 Early life2 ''The Firefly''3 ''Friml's Greatest Successes''4 Works5 Works cited6 External links Early life Born in Prague, at that tim..
Rudolf G. Binding
Rudolf Georg Binding (born August 13, 1867 in Basel; died August 4, 1938 in Starnberg, Bavaria) was a German writer. Publications Reitvorschrift für eine Geliebte (New edition: Olms, Hildesheim and others, 1995 ISBN 3-487-08369-8)Der Opfergang. Eine Novelle. (53. edition, Insel, Frankfurt am Main ..
Rudolf Geiger
Rudolf Oskar Robert Williams Geiger (August 24, 1894 in Erlangen, Germany – January 22, 1981 in Munich, Germany) was a German meteorologist and climatologist. ..
Rudolf Gnägi
Rudolf Gnägi (August 3, 1917 - April 20, 1985) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 8, 1965 and handed over office on December 31, 1979. He was affiliated to the Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents (BGB/PAI), which became the Swiss People'..
Rudolf Goclenius, Jr.
Rudolf Goclenius, Jr. (22 August 1572 in Wittenberg - 3 March 1621 in Marburg) was a German physician and professor of physics, medicine and mathematics at the Philipps University of Marburg. He is the oldest son of Rudolph Goclenius, who was also professor of rhetoric, logic and ethics at Marbur..
Rudolf Goldschmidt
Rudolf Goldschmidt (March 19, 1876, Neubukow, Mecklenburg - 1950/1970, London) was a German engineer and inventor. Goldschmidt was born in Neubukow and earned an engineering degree in 1898. He spent the following decade working in England with major firms such as Westinghouse. Subsequently he ret..
Rudolf Grimm
Rudolf Grimm (born 10 November 1961 in Mannheim, Germany) is a professor of experimental physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and scientific director at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research is focused on ultraco..
Rudolf Grüttner
Rudolf Grüttner (born 5 March 1933) is a German stamp designer and graphic designer. The professor was rector of the Berlin Art School from 1988 to 1990 and awarded the Goethepreis of Berlin in 1988. ..
Rudolf Gundlach
Gundlach periscope. Rudolf Gundlach (1894-1957) was a Polish engineer, inventor and tank designer. He headed the design division of the Armored Weapons Development Office (Biuro Badań Technicznych Broni Pancernych). His most notable invention and patent was the Vickers Tank Periscope MK.IV (..
Rudolf Haag
Rudolf Haag (* 1922 in Tübingen, Germany) is a German physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the axiomatic formulation of quantum field theory, namely the Haag-Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem - namely the nonexistence of the so-called U-Operator, whi..
Rudolf Harbig
Rudolf Harbig (November 8, 1913 - March 5, 1944) was a German middle distance runner best known for the 800 metres world record that he set in Milan in 1939. Life Harbig was born in Dresden. He started running in 1934 and was a member of the bronze-medal-winning German 4x400 m relay team at ..
Rudolf Hasse
Rudolf Hasse (May 30, 1906 - August 12, 1942), was a famous German racing driver. Hasse was born in Mittweida, Saxony, and died while serving on the Russian front during World War II, aged only 36. He won many Grands Prix. ..
Rudolf Hausner
Rudolf Hausner (Vienna, December 4, 1914 – February 25, 1995) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna from 1931 until 1936. During this period he also travelled to England, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Egy..
Rudolf Haym
Rudolf Haym (5 October 1821 - 27 August 1901) was a German philosopher. He was born at Grünberg in Silesia (now Zielona Góra, Poland), and died at St. Anton (Arlberg). He studied philosophy and theology at Halle and Berlin, and lived at Halle during 1846 and 1847. He was a member of the Nation..
Rudolf Heinze
Karl Rudolf Heinze (born July 22 1865 in Oldenburg; died May 26 1928 in Dresden) was a German jurist and politician. He was Vice-Chancellor of Germany and Minister of Justice from 1920 to 1921 under Wilhelm Cuno. Preceded by:Erich Zeigner Minister President of Saxony1923 Followed by:Alfred Karl F..
Rudolf Hell
Rudolf Hell (December 19, 1901 – March 11, 2002) was a German inventor. He was born in Eggmühl, Bavaria, Germany. From 1919 to 1923 he studied electrical engineering in Munich. He worked there from 1923 to 1929 as assistant of Prof. Max Dieckmann, with whom he operated a television station ..
Rudolf Hercher
Rudolf Hercher (11 January1821–26 March1878) was a German classical scholar. He is known for his collection Epistolographi Graeci of Greek letters. Some modern scholars now regard it as careless. Works Arriani Nicomediensis Scripta Minora (1854)Aelian (1858)Epistolographi Graeci (1873)Homerische ..
Rudolf Hermann Lotze
Rudolf Herman Lotze (May 21, 1817 - July 1, 1881), was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was unusually well versed in biology. He argued that if the physical world is governed by mechanical laws, relations and developments in the universe could be explained as the..
Rudolf Hess
Not be confused with Rudolf Hoess Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany as Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace,..
Rudolf Hildebrand
Heinrich Rudolf Hildebrand (13 March 1824 - 28 October 1894) was a Germanist, contributor to and then editor of the Grimm brothers' Deutsches Wörterbuch. He wrote also on the history of German folksongs, and on the teaching of the German language in schools. He was professor at Leipzig University ..
Rudolf Hilferding
Rudolf Hilferding (1877 - 1941) was an Austrian Marxist economist and a popularizer of the "economic" reading of Karl Marx or Communism A leading Marxist theorist of his day, identified with the "Austro-Marxian" group. He was the main defender to the challenge to Marx by Austrian School economist a..
Rudolf Hirzel
Rudolf Hirzel (1846-1917) was a German classical scholar, and author of a number of major books on Greek law, oaths, dialogues and names. Works Der Dialog. Ein literarhistorischer Versuch (1895)Der Eid, ein beitrag zu seiner geschichte (1902)Themis, Dike und Verwandtes. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte..
Rudolf Hoernes
Rudolf Hoernes. Rudolf Hoernes (October 7, 1850 – 1912) was an Austrian geologist, born in Vienna. He studied under Eduard Suess and became a Professor of geology in Graz. He was known for his earthquake studies in 1878 and proposed a classification of earthquakes into subsidence earthq..
Rudolf Horváth
Rudolf Horváth (born June 28, 1947) is a former Slovak handball player. He played for Czechoslovakia and won the gold medal in 1967 World Men's Handball Championship in Sweden. ..
Rudolf Höß
Not to be confused with Rudolf Hess. Rudolf Höß Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English commonly Hoess or Höss; November 251900 – April 161947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lt. Colonel) and from May 4, 1940 to November of 1943 was commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp where h..
Rudolf Hrušínský
--> Rudolf Hrušínský (1920-1994) was an acclaimed Czech actor. Biography He was born in Nova Vcelnice to Hermina Cervickova and Rudolf Hrusinsky (original name Rudolf Bohm also took the stage name Otomar Otovalsky. He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Tanecek panny Ma..
Rudolf Hruska
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. Rudolf Hruska was born the ..
Rudolf I, Bishop of Würzburg
Rudolf I (d. August 3, 908) was Bishop of Würzburg from 892 until his death. He was the youngest son of Udo. In 892 he was appointed as bishop to replace Arno, who had been killed during a campaign against Great Moravia. At the same time, his brother Conrad the Elder became Margrave of Thuringia, ..
Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria
Rudolf I of Bavaria (October 4 1274, Basle – August 12 1319), (German: Rudolf I , Herzog von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein), since 1294 he was the Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatinate. Rudolf was the son of Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria, and Mechthild, a daughter of King Rudolph I. Life He su..
Rudolf II, Duke of Austria
Duke Rudolph II of Austria, titular Duke of Swabia (1271–May 10, 1290) was born as the younger son of Rudolph of Habsburg, from 1273 King of the Romans. In December 1282 he became Duke of Austria and Styria jointly with his brother Albert I. However, in the Treaty of Rheinfelden (June 1, 128..
Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria
Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria "the blind" (8 August 1306 in Wolfratshausen – 4 October 1353 in Neustadt) was Count Palatine of the Rhine (see Palatinate) from 1329 to 1353. He was the son of Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria and Matilde of Nassau, daughter of King Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg. His uncle was..
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II Rudolph II's personal crown, later Crown of the Austrian Empire Rudolf II von Habsburg was an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, king of Bohemia, and king of Hungary. He was born in Vienna on July 18, 1552, and died in Prague on January 20, 1612. His father..
Rudolf Ising
Rudolf "Rudy" Ising (August 7, 1903 – July 18, 1992) is an American animator, film producer, and film director best-known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios with his partner Hugh Harman. See also Harman and Ising External links [Find-A-Grave] ..
Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
Rudolf IV of Austria. This portrait, the first Half Frontal Portrait of the Occident, can hardly be overestimated in its importance for the History of Art. It had been on display above his grave in the Stephansdom for several decades after his death, but can now be seen in the Museum of the Roman..
Rudolf Jaenisch
Rudolf Jaenisch is a German pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating transgenic mice to study cancer and neurological diseases. Jaenisch’s first breakthrough occurred in the 1974 when he showed that foreign DNA could be int..
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius. Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (February 12, 1665–September 11, 1721) was a German botanist and physician. Camerarius was born at Tübingen, and became professor of medicine and director of the botanical gardens at Tübingen in 1687. He is chiefly known for his investig..
Rudolf Jansen
Rudolf Jansen is a Dutch pianist born in Arnhem on the 19th of january in 1940. He studied piano, organ and harpsichord simultaneously at the Amsterdam Conservatoire (now the Sweelinck Conservatoire). His teachers were Nelly Wagenaar, his father Simon C. Jansen, Felix de Nobel and Gustav Leonhardt. ..
Rudolf Jordan
Rudolf Jordan (born 21 June 1902 in Großenlüder; died 27 October 1988 in Munich) was a Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt in the time of the Third Reich. Jordan's family's background was in farming, although his father was also a salesman. After finishing Volksschule, Jordan b..
Rudolf Jung
Rudolf Jung (April 16, 1882 - December 11, 1945) was an instrumental force and agitator of Austrian National Socialism and, later on, became a member of the daughter party German Nazi Party. Rudolf Jung was born in Plasy and was a native of Jihlava, a town fractured by national antagonisms. He was..
Rudolf Kaiser
Rudolf Kaiser (10 September, 1922 - 11 September, 1991) was a designer of gliders who worked for Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co. The designs of Rudolf Kaiser have proven themselves for over 50 years all over the world. His designs for Schleichers can be recognised by the K in the ASK designation. ..
Rudolf Kalman
Rudolf Kalman. Rudolf Emil Kalman (born May 19 1930) is an American-Hungarian mathematical system theorist, who is an electrical engineer by training. He is most famous for his co-invention of the Kalman filter, a mathematical technique widely used in control systems and avionics to extract a ..
Rudolf Karel
Rudolf Karel (*November 9, 1880 in Pilsen - murdered March 6, 1945 in Theresienstadt) was a distinguished Czech composer. Contents 1 Brief Biography2 Works (selection)2.1 Piano2.2 Opera2.3 Orchestra works2.4 Chamber music3 External links Brief Biography Rudolf ..
Rudolf Kassner
Rudolf Kassner (1873–1959) was an Austrian writer, essayist, translator and cultural philosopher. Contents 1 Life2 Works2.1 Bibliography2.2 Complete works Life Rudolf was the seventh of ten children. He had a strict Catholic upbringing and was taught by a private tutor. He..
Rudolf Kastner
Rudolf (Rezső) Kastner (Kasztner), also known as Israel (Yisrael) Kastner, (1906, Cluj, Transylvania–March 12, 1957, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the de facto head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest, Hungary known as the Va'adat Ezrah Vehatzalah (Vaada), or Aid and Rescue Committee, during th..
Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe (June 14, 1910 – May 12, 1976) was a German conductor. Kempe was born in Dresden where he studied music. He played the oboe in a number of orchestras before becoming conductor of the Leipzig Opera in 1937. He directed the Dresden Staatskapelle from 1949 to 1952, and the Bavarian ..
Rudolf Kingslake
Rudolf Kingslake (1903-2003) was an eminent academician, lens designer, and engineer. Rudolf Kingslake was born in London, England in 1903. He studied optical design at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, under eminent optical designer and theoretician Alexander Eugene Conrady, and earn..
Rudolf Kirchschläger
Rudolf Kirchschläger (March 20, 1915 Niederkappel, Upper Austria – March 30, 2000 Vienna) was an Austrian diplomat, politician, judge and from 1974 to 1986 Austrian president. Education and early life Kirschläger was orphaned at the age of 11. He graduated from High School in Horn in 1935 wi..
Rudolf Kittel
Rudolf Kittel (28 March, 1853, Eningen, Württemberg - 20 October, 1929, Leipzig) was a German Old Testament scholar. Kittel studied at Tübingen University. He became Professor of Old Testament at Breslau and Leipzig. He produced commentaries and histories of the Israelites and the Near East, but ..
Rudolf Kjellén
Johan Rudolf Kjellén Johan Rudolf Kjellén (13 June 1864, Torsö – 14 November 1922, Uppsala) was a Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics". His work was influenced by Friedrich Ratzel. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, Karl Ritter, and Frie..
Rudolf Koch
Rudolf Koch (November 20, 1876 - April 9, 1934) was a leading German calligrapher, typographic artist and teacher. He was primarily a calligrapher with the Gebr. Klingspor foundry. He created several fonts, both in fraktur and normal formats. Fritz Kredel studied under Koch. Some of Koch's work ..
Rudolf Kolisch
Rudolf Kolisch (July 20, 1896 - August 1, 1978) was a Viennese violinist and leader of string quartets. Kolisch was born in Klamm, Lower Austria and raised in Vienna. His father (also named Rudolf Kolisch) was a prominent physician and a Dozent at the University. Following service in World War I, K..
Rudolf Kompfner
Rudolf Kompfner (1909 – 1977) was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling wave tube (TWT). Kompfner was born in Vienna on May 16, 1909. He was originally trained as an architect and after receiving his university degree in 1933 he moved to England ..
Rudolf König
Rudolf König (August 18, 1865–January 30, 1927) was an Austrian merchant, amateur astronomer and selenographer. He was born in Vienna and received his technical education in Leipzig. After graduation he went into his father's business. As he had an interest in astronomy, in 1906 he built a p..
Rudolf Kraj
Rudolf Kraj (born December 5, 1977) is a Czech boxer, who won the silver medal in the men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg) category at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He lost to Aleksandr Lebziak in the final. He also won a bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2003. ..
Rudolf Krause
Rudolf Krause (born March 30, 1907 - died April 11, 1987) was a Formula One driver from Germany. He participated in 2 grands prix, debuting on August 3, 1952. He scored 0 championship points. Complete Formula One results Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Team 1952 BMW SWI IND BEL FRA..
Rudolf Laban
Rudolf (Jean-Baptiste Attila) Laban, also known as Rudolf von Laban (December 15, 1879, Pressburg, Austria-Hungary (today Bratislava, Slovakia) - July 1, 1958, Weybridge, England) was a notable central European dancer and dance theorist. Laban's parents were Hungarian, but his father's family came f..
Rudolf Lange
Dr. Rudolf Lange (April 18, 1910- February 23 1945) was a prominent Nazi official. He served as commander of the SD and SIPO in Riga, Latvia. He participated in the Wannsee Conference, and was largely responsible for implementing the extermination of Latvia's Jewish population (Einsatzgruppen A ki..
Rudolf Lingens
Severe amnesiac Rudolf Lingens has become famous for being lost in Stanford Library, aisle 5, floor 6 of Main Library Stanford. In fact, he's lost there right now. De se attitudes Rudolph Lingens first makes an appearance in the annals of philosophy in Gottlob Frege's essay 'Thought' ('Der Gedanke..
Rudolf Lipschitz
thumb Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (May 14, 1832 – October 7, 1903) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Bonn from 1864. Peter Gustav Dirichlet was his teacher. He supervised the early work of Felix Klein. While Lipschitz gave his name to the Lipschitz contin..
Rudolf Lorenzen
Rudolf Lorenzen is the author of the novel "Anything but a hero" (Alles andere als ein Held), about an ordinary German boy who grows up in pre-war Germany, serves in the German army during WWII and finds his way in the shipping business afterwards. ..
Rudolf Lothar
See also Lothar. Rudolf Lothar [rú:dolf ló:tar] (born Rudolf Lothar Spitzer, February 25, 1865, Budapest - after 1933/October 2, 1943, Budapest) was a Hungary-born Austrian writer, playwright, critic, essayist. Literary works 1891 Der verschleierte König, drama1900 König Harlekin, pla..
Rudolf Magnus
Rudolf Magnus (Brunswick, September 2, 1873 — Switzerland, 1927), was a German pharmacologist and physiologist. He studied medicine, specialising in pharmacology, in Heidelberg, where he became associate professor of pharmacology in 1904. In 1908 he became the first professor of pharmacolo..
Rudolf Maister
Statue of Maister in Ljubljana. Rudolf Maister-Vojanov (March 29, 1874 - July 26, 1934) was a Slovene colonel in the Austro-Hungarian army. In 1918, towards the end of World War I, he organized local volunteers and took control of the city of Maribor and the surrounding region of Lower Styr..
Rudolf Maria Holzapfel
Rudolf Maria Holzapfel (April 26, 1874, Cracow - February 8, 1930, Muri (Kanton Bern)) was a Poland-born Austrian psychologist, philosopher. Literary works Panidealische Psychologie der sozialen Gefühle, 1901Panideal. Das Seelenleben und seine soziale Neugestaltung, 2 vols., 21923Welterlebnis, 2 v..
Rudolf Martin
Rudolf Martin (born July 31 1967 in Berlin, Germany) is a German-American actor. He has appeared in a handful of off-Broadway productions, and has also made guest appearances on numerous television series, including Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 24, Crossing Jordan, Judging Amy, NCIS, [[Star Trek: Enter..
Rudolf Mauersberger
Rudolf Mauersberger was a German choir director and composer who was born on 29 January 1889 in Mauersberg bei Marienberg (Sachsen, Germany) and died on 22 February 1971 in Dresden. ..
Rudolf Medek
Rudolf Medek (born 8 January, 1890 in Hradec Králové - died 22 August, 1940) was a Czech poet, army-related prose writer, and General. Bibliography Rokoko - poemPůlnoc bohů (English: Midnight of Gods) (1912) - book of poetryAnabáze - army documentPlukovník Švec - army drama ..
Rudolf Meidner
Rudolf Alfred Meidner, born June 23 1914 in Wrocław, Poland (as of 1914, Breslau, Germany), died December 9 2005 in Lidingö, Sweden. Son of Alfred Meidner and Elise Bandmann. Being Jewish and a Socialist he was forced to flee Nazi Germany after the Reichstag fire in Berlin 1933. In 1937 he was m..
Rudolf Miele
Rudolf Miele (November 4 1929 - August 19 2004) was a German entrepreneur. Since 1960 he was acting partner of the household accessory manufacturer "Miele". He was the grandson of the Miele founder Carl Miele. Rudolf, like his grandfather before, became in 1999 honorary citizen of the German city o..
Rudolf Minger
Rudolf Minger (November 13, 1881 - August 23, 1955) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1930-1940). He was elected to the Federal Council on December 12, 1929 and handed over office on December 31, 1940. He was the first councillor from the Party of Farmers, Traders and ..
Rudolf Mosse
Rudolf Mosse (born May 8, 1843, at Grätz, Posen district) was the German publisher and philanthropist; son of Dr. Markus Moses. He began his career as an apprentice in the book-printing establishment of Merzbach at Posen, publisher of the "Ostdeutsche Zeitung", and mastered the technique of printin..
Rudolf Mößbauer
Rudolf Ludwig Mößbauer (born January 31, 1929) is a German physicist who studied gamma rays from nuclear transitions. Mößbauer was born in Munich. Along with Robert Hofstadter of the United States he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961 for his 1957 discovery of the Mößbauer effect — ..
Rudolf Nébald
Rudolf Nébald (born 7 September, 1952) is a Hungarian fencer, who won a bronze medal in the team sabre competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow together with György Nébald, Ferenc Hammang, Imre Gedõvári and Pál Gerevich. ..
Rudolf Nebel
Rudolf Nebel (March 21, 1894 - September 18 1978) was a spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II. Nebel was born in Weißenburg and trained a..
Rudolf Nierlich
Rudolf Nierlich (February 20, 1966 - May 18, 1991) was an Austrian alpine skier. Born at Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut (Upper Austria), he won a total of 8 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, and was three times World Champion (1989 and 1991), in Slalom and Giant Slalom. He died 1991 in a car ..
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (Russian spelling Рудольф Хаметович Нуреев, Tatar form Rudolf Xämät ulı Nuriev) (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993), Soviet-born dancer, was regarded as one of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century, alongside..
Rudolf of Benevento
Rudolf (also Rudolph or Rodolf, Italian Rodolfo) was the papal rector of the Duchy of Benevento under Pope Leo IX from 1053 to 1054. Rudolf was a Swabian captain who led that contingent of forces at the Battle of Civitate. His men were routed by Richard I of Aversa. Rudolf was made rector of Benev..
Rudolf of Zähringen
Rudolf of Zähringen (also Rudolph or Ralph) (c.1135–5 August 1191) was the archbishop of Mainz from 1160 to 1161 and prince-bishop of Liège. He was the son of Conrad I of Zähringen and Clemence of Luxembourg. After the death of of Arnold of Selenhofen, the citizens of Mainz elected him ar..
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto (September 25 1869 - 6 March 1937) was an eminent German protestant theologian and scholar of comparative religion. Contents 1 Life2 ''The Holy''3 Influence4 Books available in English5 Books about Otto in English6 Other Translations7 External links ..
Rudolf Paul
Dr. Rudolf Paul (1893 - 1978) was a German politician. He studied law in Berlin and Leipzig and practiced as a lawyer in Gera. He was a member of the German Democratic Party until its dissolution in 1933. Under the Nazi Regime, he was banned from his profession. Paul was appointed as mayor of Gera o..
Rudolf Peierls
Sir Rudolf Peierls. Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5 1907, Berlin – September 19 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. The son of a Jewish businessman, he studied nuclear physics under the tutelage of Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli. His early work on quantum physi..
Rudolf Petersson
Rudolf Petersson (1896-1970) was a Swedish comic creator and the father of one of the most popular Swedish comics of all time: [[91:an]]. See also [[91:an (comic strip)]][[91:an (comic book)]]Mandel Karlsson External links [Rudolf Petersson info from the Lambiek Comiclopedia of Artists] ..
Rudolf Pöch
Rudolf Pöch, or Rudolf Poech (April 17, 1870, Tarnopol, Galizien - March 4, 1921, Innsbruck), was an Austrian doctor, anthropologist, and ethnologist. Literary works Die Pest, 1914Studien an Eingeborenen aus Neusüdwales, 1915 External links ..
Rudolf Povarnitsyn
Rudolf Povarnitsyn (born June 13, 1962) is a retired athlete who represented USSR and later Ukraine. Competing in the high jump, his greatest achievement was a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. His personal best jump of 2.40 metres was also the world record from August 11 to September 4, 1..
Rudolf Prich
Rudolf Prich (1881-1940) was a Polish military officer and a generał dywizji of the Polish Army. He was among the Polish officers murdered by the Soviet Union during the Katyń massacre. Born 1881, Prich in his youth joined the Austro-Hungarian Army, where he served with distinction during the Gre..
Rudolf Prikryl
Rudolf Prikryl (born 21 March 1896 in Vienna, died 13 June 1965 in Vienna) was the provisionally-instated mayor of Vienna from the 13th of April to the 16th of April 1945, and is remembered as the three days' mayor (German: Drei-Tage-Bürgermeister). Prikryl grew up in Alsergrund, and became a plum..
Rudolf Ramek
Rudolf Ramek (1881 - 1941), was Austrian political figure. He served as chancellor of Austria from 1924 to 1926. ..
Rudolf Ritter von Alt
Rudolf Ritter von Alt (born 28 August 1812 in Vienna; died 12 March 1905 in Vienna) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. He was also known as Rudolf von Alt or Rudolf Alt. He was the son of the famous lithographer Jakob von Alt (1789- 1872). He studied at the Akademie der bildende..
Rudolf Rocker
Rudolf Rocker (March 25, 1873 - September 19, 1958), writer, historian and prominent figure in the international Anarchist movement. Born in Mainz, Germany, he became a socialist in his youth joining the Social Democratic Party but was expelled in 1890 for his support of the left wing group Die J..
Rudolf Roessler
In World War II espionage, Rudolf Roessler was the central (and mysterious) figure in the Lucy spy ring. He was a German refugee who had moved to Switzerland in the 1930s, and was the proprietor of a small publishing firm in Switzerland, Vita Novi. During the War, he managed to provide, through a So..
Rudolf Rominger
Rudolf Rominger (born 21 August 1908) is a Swiss former alpine skier. He won several World Championship titles. Palmarés 1936 World Champion in Downhill1936 Bronze medal in Slalom1938 World Champion in Slalom1939 World Champion in Slalom1936 World Champion in Alpine Combined1938 Vice-World Champi..
Rudolf Ruedemann
Rudolf Ruedemann, Ph.D. (October 16, 1864–June 18, 1956) was an American paleontologist, born at Georgenthal, Germany. He was educated in Europe at Jena (Ph.D., 1887), and at Strassburg (Ph.D., 1889) where he was an assistant in geology in 1887-92. He emigrated to the United States in 1892 an..
Rudolf S. Enblom
Rudolf S. Enblom (born August 25, 1861 in Hilleshög, died February 27, 1945 in Djursholm) was a Swedish architect. Among other works he was behind the Kristallsalongen, an open air theatre in Djurgården, Stockholm. ..
Rudolf Scharping
Rudolf Scharping, 2001 Rudolf Scharping (December 2 1947 in Niederelbert) is a German politician (SPD). Scharping studied politics, sociology and law at the University of Bonn. He joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1966. He was Member of the Rhineland-Palatine Diet from 1975 to 1994..
Rudolf Schenker
Rudolf Schenker Rudolf Schenker (born August 31, 1948 in Hildesheim, Germany) is a German guitarist and founding member of Scorpions and the rhythm/lead guitarist of the band. Schenker is widely considered by fans to be an underrated guitarist. While he used to play a Fender Stratocaster, he..
Rudolf Schindler
Lovell Beach House, Los Angeles California Rudolf Michael Schindler (1887–1953) was an Austrian-American architect who worked in Los Angeles during the mid-20th century. He is often associated with the fringes of the modern movement in architecture, but although he worked and trained wi..
Rudolf Schlechter
Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. He explored Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South and Central America and Australia. His vast herbarium was destroyed during the bombing of Berlin in 1945. The standard author ..
Rudolf Schlichter
Rudolf Schlichter (December 6, 1890 – May 3, 1955) was a German artist considered to be one of the most important representatives of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement. Schlichter was born in Calw. After an apprenticeship as an enamel painter at a Pfozheim factory he attended t..
Rudolf Schmundt
Rudolf Schmundt (1896 - 1944) was a General of the Wehrmacht during World War Two who was killed in the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) near Rastenburg, East Prussia (today Kętrzyn, Poland) during the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler. One of the conspirators, Claus von Stauffenberg was to place a..
Rudolf Schock
Rudolf Schock (September 4 1915 - November 13 1986) was a German tenor. Rudolf Schock was a tenor with a wide repertory from operetta to Lohengrin, recording among others opera and lieder, doing television, radio and film work. Slim and handsome, he made many films. Blessed with a mezza-voice that..
Rudolf Schoeller
Rudolf Schoeller (April 27, 1902 - March 7, 1978) was a Formula One driver from Switzerland. He participated in 1 grand prix, debuting on August 3, 1952. He scored 0 championship points. Complete Formula One results Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Team 1952 Ferr SWI IND BEL FRA GBR D..
Rudolf Schulten
In the 1950’s, Dr. Rudolf Schulten was the originator of the pebble bed reactor design. Which compacts silicon carbide-coated uranium granules into hard, billiard-ball-like spheres to be used as fuel for a new high temperature, helium-cooled type of nuclear reactor. The idea took root and in due..
Rudolf Schuster
Slovak President Rudolf Schuster Rudolf Schuster (born January 4, 1934 in Košice, Czechoslovakia) is a former president of Slovakia. His family is of Carpathian German origin. He was elected on May 29, 1999 and inaugurated on June 15. Before becoming president he was a mayor (Slovakian: primá..
Rudolf Schwarz
Rudolf Schwarz may refer to: Rudolf Schwarz (conductor)Rudolf Schwarz (architect) See also disclaimer This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to th..
Rudolf Schwarzkogler
Rudolf Schwarzkogler (13 November 1940 in Vienna – 20 June 1969) was an Austrian performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group that also included artists Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, and Hermann Nitsch. He is best known today for photographs depicting his series of close..
Rudolf Schwarz (conductor)
Rudolf Schwarz was an Austrian conductor. He was born in Vienna, studied with composer Hans Gál and made his conducting debut in Dusseldorf in 1924. As a Jew, he was imprisoned by the Nazis, ending up in Belsen concentration camp in 1943. After the end of World War II he moved to England, where ..
Rudolf Seeliger
Rudolf Seeliger (1886-1965). Pioneer of gas discharge and Plasma Physics.1909 PhD Student of Arnold Sommerfeld.1918 Professor in Greifswald, Germany in 1918.1912 Fundamental discovery together with Ernst Gehrcke: Excitation of spectral lines via an electrical current through a gas requires characte..
Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991) was a Jewish-born, Austrian pianist. He was born in Eger, Bohemia (now Cheb, Czech Republic) to a Jewish Russian family. The family moved to Vienna when Rudi was nine, where he studied piano with Richard Robert and composition with Joseph Marx. Ru..
Rudolf Sieczynski
Rudolf Sieczynski (b. 1879, Vienna; d. 1952, Vienna) was an Austrian composer of Polish ancestry. His fame today rests almost exclusively on the nostalgic song [Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume] (Vienna, City of My Dreams), whose melody and lyrics he wrote in 1914. The song was featured in ..
Rudolf Signer
Rudolf Signer (1903-1990) contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix. ..
Rudolf Sikorski
Rudolf Sikorski (2075 - ?) is a fictional character in Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Contents 1 Biography2 Quotations3 Trivia4 See also B..
Rudolf Skácel
Rudolf "Rudi" Skacel(born 17 July 1979)is a professional footballer currently playing for Heart of Midlothian and has been capped at international level by the Czech Republic. He is a left sided midfield player noted for his skillful play and high scoring ratio for his position. Skacel began his ca..
Rudolf Slánský
Rudolf Slánský (July 31 1901, Nezvěstice near Kladno – December 2 1952) was a Czech Communist politician and the party's General Secretary after World War II. Later he fell into disfavour with the regime and was executed after a show trial. Contents 1 Early life2 Power in the p..
Rudolf Spielmann
Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 - 20 August 1942) was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school. Rudolf Spielmann, "The master of attack", was also known as "the Last Knight of the King's Gambit." His daredevil play was full of sacrifices, brillancies and beautiful ideas. Despite a st..
Rudolf Sremec
Rudolf Sremec (August 18 1909 – August 16 1999) was a Croatian film director and actor. Born in Vinkovci, he directed and acted in several movies, a few of which were translated into English. He died in Zagreb. ..
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner. Rudolf Steiner (February 27, 1861 – March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, and social thinker. He is the founder of anthroposophy, "a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pu..
Rudolf Steiner's views on races
The views of Rudolf Steiner on the subject of race take up significantly less than one percent of his lifetime's work output of 350 volumes of books and lectures. In other words, more than 99% of the time when he wrote and lectured, he was talking about subjects other than race. His views on race ..
Rudolf Stussi
Swiss born artist came to Canada in 1967 to attend Carlton University. Stussi also studied and taught at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1978. From 1988 to 1991 he was president of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC). Rudolf was involved in animation with Toronto based..
Rudolf Swoboda
Rudolf Swoboda the younger (1859-1914) was a 19th-century Austrian painter, born in Vienna. He studied under Leopold Carl Müller, and voyaged with him to Egypt in 1880. He was a well-known Orientalist. In 1886, Queen Victoria commissioned Swoboda to paint several of a group of Indian artisans ..
Rudolf Tarnow
A portrait of Rudolf Tarnow Rudolf Tarnow (February 25, 1867 in Parchim - May 19, 1933 in Schwerin) was a Low German writer. Rudolf Tarnow was born on February 25, 1867 in the city of Parchim, the oldest son of a shoemaker, Heinrich Tarnow, and his wife, Dorothea (née Pingel). He attended sc..
Rudolf Těsnohlídek
Rudolf Těsnohlídek (July 7, 1882 - January 12, 1928, suicide) was a Czech writer, journalist and translator. He also used the pseudonym Arnošt Bellis. He studied gymnastics in Hradec Králové and later started to study philosophy in Prague but didn't finish. Starting in 1908, he was a contribu..
Rudolf Tobias
Rudolf Tobias (May 29 1873 Käina–29 October 1918 Berlin) was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. External link [Elulugu] ..
Rudolf Tomsits
Rudolf Tomsits is a Hungarian jazz musician who plays the trumpet and the flugelhorn. He played, as part of a quartet, at the Montreaux Jazz Festival at the age of 23. ..
Rudolf Trumpy
Rudolf Trumpy is a famous Swiss Geologist, who was born in 1921 in the small Swiss town of Glarus. He graduated from the ETH Zürich in the late 1940s with a thesis titled: “Der Lias der Glarner Alpen”. From 1947 to 1953 he spent his post-doctoral years in Lausanne before being appointed profess..
Rudolf Unger
See also Unger, Ungar. Rudolf Unger (May 8, 1876, Hildburghausen – February 25, 1942, Göttingen) was a German literary scientist (Literaturwissenschaftler) Literary works Hamann und die Aufklärung, 2 vols., 1911Von Nathan zu Faust, 1916Weltanschauung und Dichtung, 1917Herder, Novalis, Kleist, ..
Rudolf Veiel
Rudolf Veiel (December 10, 1883, Stuttgart - March 19, 1956, Stuttgart) was a German General der Panzertruppe during World War II. His first army service was noticed as Fahnenjunker in the Ulanen-Regiment 19 in April 1904. He became Leutnant on August 18, 1905. On the beginning of the World Wa..
Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Rudolf VI of Baden (?–21 March 1372) was Margrave of Baden-Baden and Count of Eberstein from 1353 to 1372. Life He was the elder son of Frederick III and Margareta of Baden. Under Rudolf VI Baden was again united in 1361, since the other lines had expired. Under his rule the Margraves of Bade..
Rudolf Virchow
Dr. R.L.K. Virchow Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (born October 13, 1821, in Schivelbein, Pomerania; died September 5, 1902, in Berlin) was a German doctor, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician. Contents 1 Scientific Career2 Political Career3 Consult4 Refere..
Rudolf von Beckerath
Rudolf von Beckerath (February 19th, 1907 – 1976) was a German master organ builder. He was born in Munich, but grew up in Hamburg, where his parents moved the year he was born. He initially pursued an interest in mechanical engineering. After encountering the quality organ building in nort..
Rudolf von Bennigsen
Rudolf von Bennigsen (10 July 1824, Lüneburg – 7 August 1902, Bennigsen near Springe), was a German politician. He was descended from an old Hanoverian family, his father, Karl von Bennigsen, being an officer in the Hanoverian army, who rose to the rank of general and also held diplomatic app..
Rudolf von Delbrück
Tombstone of von Belbrück, Berlin. Martin Friedrich Rudolf von Delbrück (1817-1903), Prussian statesman, was born at Berlin on the 16th of April 1817. On completing his legal studies he entered the service of the state in 1837; and after holding a series of minor posts was transferred in 1..
Rudolf von Ems
Rudolf von Ems (b. c1200 in the Vorarlberg in Austria; d. c1254 in Italy) was a mediaeval German epic poet. Contents 1 Life2 Works3 Editions of works4 References5 External links Life Rudolf von Ems took his name from the castle of Hohenems near Bregenz, now in Austria,..
Rudolf von Gottschall
Rudolf von Gottschall (September 30, 1823 - March 21, 1909), was a German poet and dramatist. He was born at Breslau, the son of a Prussian artillery officer. He was educated at the gymnasia in Mainz and Coburg, and subsequently at Rastenburg in East Prussia. In 1841 he entered the University of K..
Rudolf von Jhering
Rudolf von Jhering (also Ihering) (22 August 1818 - 17 September 1892) was a German jurist. He is known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht, as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and historical school of law. He was born in Aurich, and died in Göttingen. He entered th..
Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz
Colonel Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz (born 15 October 1886 in Munich; died 12 October 1944 in Berlin) was a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany, and a member of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia. Von Marogna-Redwitz belonged to the tight circle abou..
Rudolf von Raumer
Rudolf von Raumer (1815 – 1876) was a German linguist. External link [Rudolf von Raumer – Linguistic-Historical Change and the Natural-Historical Definition of Sounds] ..
Rudolf von Rheinfeld
Rudolph of Rheinfelden (in German, Rudolf von Rheinfeld, and in Italian Rodolfo di Svevia), died October 15, 1080, was Duke of Swabia (1057–1079) and German antiking (1077–1080). He was the son of Count Kuno of Rheinfelden. In 1057 Rudolf took advantage of the minority of German King He..
Rudolf von Ribbentrop
--> Rudolf von Ribbentrop (b. 10 May 1921) is a former German Waffen-SS officer who served in World War II. He was the son of the German diplomat and later Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Rudolf von Ribbentrop distinguished himself in the Russo-Finnish War. Contents 1 Military ca..
Rudolf von Scheliha
Rudolf von Scheliha (1897 - 1942) was born on May 31, 1897 in Zessel, Silesia, as the son of a Prussian squire. He served as an army officer in World War I, studied law and joined the German Foreign Service in 1922. As a member of the German Embassy in Warsaw he became aware of the atrocities commit..
Rudolf von Sebottendorf
Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff was the alias of Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer (November 9, 1875 – May 8, 1945 or 1950s), who also occasionally used another alias, Erwin Torre. He was an important figure in the activities of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German political organization tha..
Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba (or Verba) (11 September, 1924 – March 27, 2006), born Walter Rosenberg, was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia in Canada. He came to public attention in 1944 when, in April that year, he and Alfred W..
Rudolf Wagner
Rudolf Wagner (June 30, 1805 - May 13, 1864), German anatomist and physiologist was born at Bayreuth, where his father was a professor in the gymnasium. He was the co-discoverer of the germinal vesicle. He made important investigations on ganglia, nerve-endings, and the sympathetic nerves. He beg..
Rudolf Walden
Rudolf Walden Karl Rudolf Walden (December 1, 1878 - October 25, 1946) was a Finnish industrialist and soldier. He received his military education in Hamina Cadet School 1892-1900. He was dismissed from service in 1902, in connection with a conscription strike. After leaving the army Walden ..
Rudolf Weigl
Rudolf Weigl Professor Rudolf Stefan Weigl (1883 - 1957) was a famous Polish biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus. Born in Přerov, Moravia, Weigl graduated in 1907 from the University of Lwów with a degree in Natural Sciences. He founded the Weigl Institu..
Rudolf Westphal
Rudolf Westphal Rudolf Westphal (July 3, 1826 - July 10, 1892), German classical scholar, was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg. He studied at Marburg and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858-1862) and Moscow (1875-1879). He subsequently lived at Bückeburg, and died at Stadthagen i..
Rudolf Wittkower
Rudolf Wittkower was a German art historian. He was born in Berlin in 1901 and moved to London in 1934. He taught at the Warburg Institute from 1934 to 1956 and then at Columbia University from 1956 to 1969 where he was chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology. He died on 11 October..
Rudolf Wlassak
Rudolf Wlassak (27 March 1865 - 10 March 1930) was an Austrian physiologist and neurologist. He was a pioneer in the hospital treatment of alcoholism. He was born in Brno (Brünn), Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic). His Grundriss der Alkoholfrage was published in 1922. He was active in the treat..
Rudolf Wolf
Johann Rudolf Wolf (7 July 1816, Fällanden - 6 December 1893, Zurich) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. Wolf was born in Fällanden, near Zurich. He studied at the universities of Zurich, Vienna, and Berlin. Encke was one of his teachers. Wolf becam..
Rudolf Wolters
Rudolf Wolters a German architect and Nazi sympathiser who believed that Adolf Hitler was the supreme builder and wrote several architectural based books including a biography on Albert Speer. Wolters believed: "It is the queen of the fine arts and a self-justifying necessity for powerful epochs; ..
Rudolf Zahradník
Rudolf Zahradník (born October 20 1928 in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a Czech chemist. He has been particularly interested in the relationships between theoretical and experimental characteristics. He published more than 350 papers and 10 books especially on quantum chemistry..
Rudolice nad Bílinou
Statistics Population: 1000 (estimate 2004) Map This panelak is inhabited Rudolice nad Bílinou (Rudolice upon river Bílina) is widely known under unofficial name Chánov (and this name is used almost exclusively). This location is geographically separated part of city of Most, Czech R..
Rudolph
Rudolph or Rudolf is a male first name, and, less commonly, a surname. It derives, via German, from the Old High German name Hrodulf, a composition of hruod-, meaning fame or glory, and wolf, meaning wolf. It refers, amongst others, to the following: Contents 1 People1.1 Rulers without..
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Rudolph's Shiny New Year is the 1976 stop-motion animated sequel to the popular 1964 television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, produced by Rankin/Bass. In this television special, Rudolph is asked by Father Time (voiced by narrator Red Skelton) to find the next Baby New Year before midnig..
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine
Effigy of Rudolph (Raoul) in Nancy. Rudolph (1320 – August 26, 1346 in the Battle of Crécy), called the Valiant (le Vaillant), was the duke of Lorraine from 1329 to his death. He was the son and successor of Frederick IV and Elisabeth, daughter of Albert I of Germany, a Hapsburg, when..
Rudolph, Wisconsin
Rudolph is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 423 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Rudolph Contents 1 Attractions2 Geography3 Demographics4 Notable residents5 External links Attractions Home of the St. Phili..
Rudolphine Tables
The Rudolphine Tables (Latin: Tabulae Rudolphinae) consist of a star catalog and planetary tables published by Johannes Kepler in 1627. They contain positions for 1,005 stars with directions and tables for locating the planets of the solar system. The tables, based mainly on observations by Tycho..
Rudolph (town), Wisconsin
Rudolph is a town in Wood County, Wisconsin, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 1,161. The Village of Rudolph is located within the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 77.0 km² (29.7 mi²). 76.9 km² (29.7 mi..
Rudolph A. Marcus
Rudolph "Rudy" Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of Electron transfer. The Marcus Theory provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for describing one electron Outer-Sphere electron transfer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He ..
Rudolph Ackermann
Rudolph Ackermann (April 20, 1764–March 30, 1834) was an Anglo-German inventor and publisher. He was born at Schneeberg, in Saxony, where he visited the Latin school. His wish to visit the university was made impossible by the lack of financial means. Therefore, he became a saddler like his f..
Rudolph Anderson
Major Rudolph Anderson, Jr. (1927 – October 27, 1962) was a U-2 reconnaissance airplane pilot in the United States Air Force. Anderson was born in Greenville, South Carolina and graduated from Clemson University in 1948. As a side note, Anderson was a member of Boy Scout Troop 19 of Greenvil..
Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Rudolph Augustus (16 May 1627, Hitzacker – 26 January 1704) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1666 until his death. He ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy. In 1685, he made his younger brother Anthony Ulrich his co-regent. Rudolph Augustus was the son of Augustus the Youn..
Rudolph Berthold
Rudolf Berthold (1891–1920) was a German World War I flying ace. Between 1916 and 1918 he shot down 44 enemy planes—most of them over the Belgium front. Berthold had the reputation as a ruthless, fearless and—above all—a very patriotic fighter. His perseverance and bravery ma..
Rudolph Bing
Sir Rudolph Bing Sir Rudolph Bing (January 9, 1902 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian-born opera impresario. Bing was General Manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1950-1972. Born Rudolf Franz Joseph Bing in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a well-to-do and musical famil..
Rudolph Boysen
Rudolph Boysen (July 14, 1895 — November 25, 1950) was a horticulturist who created the boysenberry, a hybrid between blackberries, raspberries, and loganberries. He worked as Anaheim City Parks superintendent from 1921-1950. Boysen died in Anaheim, California aged 55, and is interred at the..
Rudolph Carlyle Evans
Rudolph Carlyle Evans (born circa 1951-1952) is a reactionary author who has prophesied the rise of a new feudalism. Biography Evans was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At age 5, he moved to England, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Hull University ..
Rudolph Cartier
Rudolph Cartier in 1990, speaking about his career to BBC Two's The Late Show. Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Katscher on April 17 1904 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary; died June 8 1994 in London, England, UK) was an Austrian television director, who worked almost exclusively in British television fo..
Rudolph Davila
Rudolph Davila (1916-2002) was a United States Army officer who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Italy during World War II. He was the only Filipino American to receive the medal during the war in Europe.He was initially awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, however after an ex..
Rudolph Dirks
Rudolph Dirks (February 26, 1877 – April 20, 1968) was one of the earliest and most successful comic strip artists. Dirks was born in [Heide, Germany]. When he was seven years old, his father, a woodcarver, moved the family to Chicago, Illinois. His older brother, Gus Dirks, moved t..
Rudolph Fisher
Rudolph Fisher (1897 - 1934) was an African-American writer His first published work, "City of Refuge", appeared in Atlantic Monthly of February 1925. He went on in 1932 to write The Conjure-Man Dies, the first black detective novel. Fisher was also a physician (with a specialty in radiology), dr..
Rudolph Flowers
Rudolph Flowers (b. 1980) is a Belizean soccer player, who plays as a forward. In the 2002-3 season played for Juventus of Belize and scored 8 goals, making him the leading scorer of that season. References [playerhistory.com PlayerHistory.com][Belize - List of Topscorers] ..
Rudolph Ganz
Rudolph Ganz (born 24 February 1877 in Zurich, Switzerland, died 2 August 1972 in Chicago, USA) was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer. He claimed direct descent from Charlemagne. A pupil of Busoni in Berlin, he became head of piano studies at the Chicago Musical College in 1901. From 1921 t..
Rudolph Gartheimer
Rudolph Gartheimer ( ルドルフ・ゲルトハイマー) is a fictional character designed for the Power Instinct game series. Contents 1 Profile2 Special Moves3 Music themes4 Appearances5 Trivia6 See also Profile Age: 43 yearsBirthday: June, 19 1972Blood Type:..
Rudolph Goclenius
Rudolph Goclenius Rudolph Göckel or Rudolf Goclenius [the Older] (1 March 1547 - 8 June 1628) was a German scholastic philosopher, credited with the inventions of the terms psychology (1590), and ontology (1613). He was born in Corbach, Waldeck (now Korbach,Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hes..
Rudolph Grey
Rudolph Grey is a musician and writer. As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed under his own name, as well as leading various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans. His music draws on no wave and free jazz. Grey is a film fan, and has written Nightmare of Ecstasy, a biography o..
Rudolph Hering
Birth: 1847 in Philadelphia Death Date: 1923 He's buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetary, 215 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004, plot 330 ( http://forever-care.com/gen_view.php? id=39 ) Interestingly, in writing about Rudolph Hering, it's rarely noted that he was involved in the reversing of ..
Rudolph Hiemstra
General Rudolph Hiemstra SSA SM (b 1912) was a South African military commander. Hiemstra joined the South African Air Force in 1931. He did not serve in World War II because of his political opposition to South Africa's involvement in the war and was transferred to the civil service, from which ..
Rudolph III of Burgundy
Rudolf III of Burgundy (called Rudolf der Faule in German, and Rodolphe le Fainéant meaning sluggard or do-nothing or - le Pieux the Pious in French) (died September 6, 1032) King of Burgundy (993–1032) was the last king of an independent Burgundy. Biography He was the son of Conrad, King ..
Rudolph II of Burgundy
Rudolf II (died July 11, 937) was king of Upper Burgundy (912–937), Lower Burgundy (Provence) (933–937), and Italy (effective, 922–926—claim abandoned 933). He was the son of Rudolf I, king of Upper Burgundy. Following his ascension to the throne in 912, Rudolf was asked by ..
Rudolph Isley
Rudolph Bernard Isley (born on April 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was one of the original members of the legendary family music group, The Isley Brothers. After forming the group as a gospel quartet in 1954, he forever remained in the background and often shared lead vocals with brother Ronald, who ..
Rudolph I of Bohemia
Rudolf I of Habsburg Rudolf I of Habsburg (Czech: Rudolf I. Habsburský; 1281 – 3/4 July 1307, Horažďovice in Bohemia) was a king of Bohemia (1306-1307) and duke of Austria (as Rudolph III), titular King of Poland 1306-1307. The son of Albert I, King of the Romans, Rudolf was in 1306 ..
Rudolph I of Burgundy
Rudolph I, born 859, died October 25, 912, King of (Upper or Transjurane) Burgundy from his election in 888 until his death. Rudolph belonged to the elder Welf family and was the son of Conrad, Count of Auxerre, from whom he inherited the lay abbacy of St Maurice en Valais, making him the most powe..
Rudolph I of Germany
The brass of the tomb of Rudolph I in Speyer King Rudolph I, also well known as Rudolph of Habsburg (German: Rudolf von Habsburg, Latin Rudolfus; May 1, 1218 – July 15, 1291) was a king of the Holy Roman Empire, who played a vital role in raising the Habsburg family to a leading pos..
Rudolph Karstadt
Rudolph Karstadt (born February 16, 1856 in Grevesmühlen; died December 19, 1944 in Schwerin) was a German entrepreneur. On May 14, 1881 Karstadt opened his first "Tuch-, Manufaktur- und Konfektionsgeschäft" in Wismar and by 1920 owned over 30 shops in the whole of Germany. See also: KarstadtQue..
Rudolph Koenig
Karl Rudolph Koenig Karl Rudolph Koenig (November 26, 1832 - October 2, 1901), known by himself and others as Rudolph Koenig, was a German physicist, chiefly concerned with acoustic phenomena. Koenig was born in Koenigsberg (Prussia), and studied at the university of his native town. About 1..
Rudolph Kreutzer
Rudolph Kreutzer (1766-1831) was a French violinist of German extraction. He was born at Versailles, his father being a musician in the royal chapel. ..
Rudolph Marks
Rudolph Marks (born Max Radkisson) was a playwright, songwriter, and comedian. He rivaled Sigmund Mogulesko in Yiddish Theater in New York City in the 1890s, but had a less enduring career. References Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, K..
Rudolph Martin Anderson
Rudolph Martin Anderson (June 30 1876 – June 21 1961) was a Canadian zoologist and explorer. He was born in Iowa in 1876. He participated in the Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition which explored Alaska and the northern Yukon from 1908 to 1912 and was part of the Canadian Arctic Expedition ..
Rudolph Maté
Rudolph Maté (January 21, 1898 – October 27, 1964) was an accomplished cinematographer and film director. Born in Kraków, Poland, Maté started in the film business after gratuating from the University of Budapest. He went on to work as an assistant cameraman in Hungary and later throughout Eu..
Rudolph Minkowski
Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski) (May 28 1895 – January 4 1976) was a German-American astronomer. His father was the physiologist Oskar Minkowski. His uncle was Hermann Minkowski. Studied supernovas and, together with Walter Baade, divided them into two classes (Type I ..
Rudolph Moshammer
Rudolph Moshammer (September 27, 1940 – January 14, 2005) was a German fashion designer. Although according to his own previously stated birth date he would have been 59 at the time of his violent death, he was often estimated a few years older, and police reports said Moshammer was 64 years old...
Rudolph of Austria (Cardinal)
Archduke Rudolph Johannes Joseph Rainier of Austria (January 8, 1788 - July 24, 1831) was an Austrian nobleman and churchman. Born in in Pisa, Italy, he was the youngest son of Emperor Leopold II. He was elected archbishop of Olomouc in 1819 and became cardinal in the same year. In 1803 or 1804, R..
Rudolph of Burgundy
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. There are four 10th century kings known as Rudolph of Burgundy. Rudolph, Duk..
Rudolph of France
Rudolph (also Radulf, Ralph, or Raoul) (died 15 January 936) was the duke of Burgundy between 921 and 923 and king of France from thereafter to his death. Rudolph inherited the duchy of Burgundy from his father, Richard the Justiciar. He married Emma, daughter of the king, Robert I. He was elec..
Rudolph Pariser
- Rudolph Pariser (born December 8, 1923) is a physical chemist and polymer chemist. He was born in Harbin, China, but became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America in 1944. He received the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944, and his Ph. ..
Rudolph Peters
Sir Rudolph Albert Peters (13 April 1889 - 29 January 1982) was a British biochemist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1935. ..
Rudolph Réti
Rudolph Réti (November 27, 1885 - February 7, 1957) was a musical analyst, composer and pianist. Réti was born in Uzice in Serbia and studied music theory, musicology and piano in Vienna. He was involved in establishing the Salzburg Festival and the International Society for Contemporary Music. H..
Rudolph Ruzicka
Rudolph Ruzicka (1883 – 1978) was a celebrated Czech-American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, book designer, and typographer. He produced print designs for Daniel Berkeley Updike of the Merrymount Press, was a consultant to Mergenthaler Linotype Company for 50 years, and designed a number ..
Rudolph Schadow
Rudolph Schadow (1786-1822), sculptor, was born in Rome, and had his father at Berlin for his first master. In 1810 he went to Rome and received kindly help from Canova and Thorvaldsen. His talents were versatile; his first independent work was a figure of Paris, and it had for its companion a spin..
Rudolph Schoenheimer
Rudolph Schoenheimer (May 10, 1898 – September 11, 1941) was a German/ U.S. biochemist who developed the technique of isotope tagging of biomolecules, enabling detailed study of metabolism. Born in Berlin, after graduating in medicine from the Friedrich Wilhelm University there, he learned furthe..
Rudolph Straeuli
Rudolph August Wilkens Straeuli (born 20 August 1963 in Pretoria, South Africa) played rugby union in the positions of flanker and eighthman for, and later coached, the Springboks rugby team. He also played for the Lions provincial team in the Currie Cup competition. Straeuli stands 1.95 meters tall..
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a popular Christmas story that has been told in numerous forms including a popular song, a television special, and even a feature film. In the song, Rudolph is one of Santa Claus' reindeer. Contents 1 Rudolph's biography2 Rudolph's origins3 The ..
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a long-running Christmas television special produced in stop motion animation by Rankin-Bass. It first aired December 6, 1964 on the NBC television network in the USA and was sponsored by (eventual owner of NBC) General Electric. It is based on the famous song by..
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. Nicknamed "The Great Lover", he was the first true male movie sex symbol. Contents 1 Childhood and youth2 Education3 New York4 Hollywood and first marriage5 ''The Sheik''6 Second marr..
Rudolph Walker
Rudolph Walker Rudolph Walker OBE (born September 28, 1939) is a British character actor. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Walker went to the United Kingdom in 1960. He is known for his comedic roles in Love Thy Neighbour and The Thin Blue Line. He also appeared in Doctor Who in 1969. He was the ..
Rudolstadt
Rudolstadt is a town in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of Thuringia (German: Thüringen), close to the Thuringian Forest (German: Thüringer Wald) to the southwest, and to Jena and Weimar to the north. The former princely residence Rudolstadt is build along the River Saale inside a wide ..
Rudozem
Rudozem (Рудозем) is a town in southern Bulgaria, near the Greek border. It is located in the Rhodope Mountains, where the Elhovo and Chepino rivers flow into the Arda, and is part of Smolyan Province. The town's name, a compound word of Bulgarian руда (ruda, "ore") and the root зем..
Rudo Makunike
Rudo Makunike-Mutasa is a Zimbabwean female pediatric pathologist who was educated at the University of Zimbabwe, (UZ) as well as the University of Sheffield. Contents 1 Her rise2 Awards3 Leadership4 Trivia5 External links Her rise Zimbabwe, a developing country, has go..
Rudołtowice
Rudołtowice is a gmina within Pszczyna in Poland. It has a population of 1111. ..
Rudra
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Rudra ("Howler") is a Rigvedic god of the storm, the hunt, death, Nature and the Wind. Rudra is an early form of Shiva, the lord of destruction in Hinduism, and a name of Shiva in the Shiva sahasranama. Rudra has arrows which cause disease in whomever h..
Rudradaman I
Rudradaman I was the Saka (Scythian) ruler of Malwa circa 50 BC. He was the grandson of the celebrated Scythian king Chastana. Rudradaman I was instrumental in the expansion of the Scythian kingdom and the decline of the Satavahana Empire. Contents 1 Mahakshatrapa2 The Satavahana confli..
Rudraige
Rudraige (Rudhraighe, Ruadhraighe) is a name given to several figures in Irish history and mythology. 1. Rudraige, son of Partholón was one of the first settlers of Ireland after the Flood. Loch Rudraige, modern Dundrum, County Down Bay, erupted when his grave was dug and was named after him. 2. ..
Rudraige mac Dela
For other characters of the same name, see Rudraige. Rudraige, son of Dela, of the Fir Bolg was the legendary second High King of Ireland, succeeding his brother Sláine. When the Fir Bolg invaded Ireland the five sons of Dela divided the island amongst themselves. Rudraige landed at Tracht Rudrai..
Rudraiya
Rudraiya is a film director most known for directing the film, "Aval Appadithan", which starred Kamalahasan, Rajinikanth and Sripriya. This film made an impact at the time of its release because its story and dialogue were different from many other Tamil films. The photography throughout the film em..
Rudraksha
Rudraksha is commonly used to mean the seeds of the rudraksha tree, Elaeocarpus ganitrus. The Rudraksha is a large evergreen broad-leaved tree which grows in the area from the Gangetic Plain to the foothills of Himalayas. Rudraksha trees are also found in middle areas of Nepal. Rudraksha seeds are..
Rudranath Capildeo
Dr. Rudranath Capildeo Dr. Rudranath Capildeo (1920–1970) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician and mathematician. He was the Leader of the Democratic Labour Party from 1960–1969 and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament from 1961–1963. He was also a faculty member at the University of L..
Rudraprayag District
Rudraprayag District, also known as Rudra Prayag District, is a district of Uttaranchal state of northern India. The district is bounded by Uttarkashi District on the north, Chamoli District on the east, Pauri Garhwal District on the south, and Tehri Garhwal District on the south. External links &..
Rudrapur
Rudrapur is a city and a municipal board in Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttaranchal. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Rudrapur had a population of 88,720. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Rudrapur has a..
Rudrasen II
Rudrasen II was ruler of the Western Kshatrapas (256-278) in today's north-west India. He was preceded by Damajadasri III and superseded by Visvasimha. ..
Rudrata's
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Rudravathi
Rudravathi is a panchayat town in Erode district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Rudravathi had a population of 5923. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Rudravathi has an average literacy ra..
Rudra (band)
Kurukshetra The Aryan crusade Rudra is a Singaporean heavy metal band which was formed in 1992. With their eponymous debut album, the band literally started a new genre of heavy metal: Vedic metal. Their album, The Aryan Crusade (Trishul Records), is considered as the definitive album o..
Rudra (disambiguation)
Rudra may refer to: Rudra, an early form of Shiva, the lord of destruction in Hinduism, and a name of Shiva in the Shiva sahasranama. It may also mean: Rudra (band), a Singaporean heavy metal band.Rudra (spider), a genus of jumping spider.Treasure of the Rudras, a role-playing video game released b..
Rudra (spider)
Rudra is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Rudra brescoviti Braul & Lise, 1999 (Brazil)Rudra dagostinae Braul & Lise, 1999 (Brazil)Rudra geniculata Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (Guatemala, Panama)Rudra humilis Mello-Leitão, 1945 (Argentina, Brazil)Rudra minensis Galia..
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (Bangla: রুদ্র মোহাম্মদ শহীদুল্লাহ্) was a Bangladeshi poet. Shahidullah was noted for his revolutionary and romantic poetry. In the popular culture of Bangladesh, Shahidullah's most well known contribution is the song Bhalo..
Rudra Pratap Singh
R.P. Singh redirects here. For information about the former cricketer born in 1963, see R.P. Singh (former cricketer). Rudra Pratap SinghIndia (IND) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Left-arm fast-medium Tests ODIs Matches 2 14 '''Runs scored 6 13 Batting aver..
Rudra Prayag
Rudra Prayag is a town and a nagar panchayat in Rudraprayag district in the Indian state of Uttaranchal. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Rudra Prayag had a population of 2242. Males constitute 63% of the population and females 37%. Rudra Prayag h..
Rudra Savarni Manu
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Rudra veena
The rudra veena (also spelled rudra vina, and also called been or bin) is a large plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music. It is an ancient instrument, and is rarely played in the present day. Z M Dagar was one of the 20th century's foremost exponents of the instrument. The rudra vee..
Rudsgrendi
Rudsgrendi is a village in the municipality of Notodden, Norway. It is located on the western shore of Tinnsjå, halfway between Gransherad and Rjukan. On the opposite side of the lake lies Hovin. In the mid-nineteenth century Rudsgrendi was administratively a part of Tinn, but the area became a pa..
Rudston
Rudston is a small village in the East Riding of Yorkshire approximately 6 miles to the West of Bridlington. Here stands the Rudston Monolith, at over 25 feet (7.6 metres) tall, it is the tallest standing stone in England. The author Winifred Holtby is buried in the village graveyard. External li..
Rudston Monolith
The Rudston Monolith at over 25 feet (7.6 metres) is the tallest megalith (Standing stone) in the United Kingdom. It is situated in a churchard in the village of Rudston in North Yorkshire. The nearest source of stone of the type the monolith is made of is ten miles from the site. There is one oth..
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans (February 1, 1878-January 16, 1960), sculptor, was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Virginia. He studied in France at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and with Auguste Rodin and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. After returning to the United States in 1900, he maintained a studio in New York Cit..
Rudvalis group
The Rudvalis group, Ru, is the sporadic simple group of order [145926144000 = 2^ \cdot 3^3 \cdot 5^3 \cdot 7 \cdot 13 \cdot 29]. It is named for Arunas Rudvalis. ..
Rudy
Rudy may refer to: Rude boy: a subculture which has its origins in Jamaica.The nickname for Rudolph Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City.Rudy, a 1993 film about American football, based on the real-life story of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger.The band RUDY from Pictou County, Nova Scotia. This is a &..
Rudy, Arkansas
Rudy is a town in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 72 at the 2000 census. Geography Rudy is located at [35°31′40″N, 94°16′18″W] (35.527733, -94.271583)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has..
Rudyard
Rudyard is a lakeside village in the county of Staffordshire, England, west of Leek, Staffordshire and on the shore of Rudyard Lake. The lake was built in 1831 by the engineer John Rennie to provide water for the Caldon Canal. The Rudyard Lake Steam Railway operates steam trains along a one and a ..
Rudyard, Montana
Rudyard is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hill County, Montana, United States. The population was 275 at the 2000 census. Geography Rudyard is located at [48°33′38″N, 110°33′17″W] (48.560633, -110.554737)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United State..
Rudyard Griffiths
Rudyard Griffiths (born 1970) is the founder and the executive director of the Dominion Institute — a national non-partisan organization in Canada dedicated to the promotion of history and shared citizenship. Mr. Griffiths is also public commentator on Canadian cultural issues, national politics ..
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the book of children's tales The Jungle Book (1894), the Indian spy novel Kim (1901), the poems "Gunga Din" (1892), and "If—" (1895), as wel..
Rudyard Lake
Rudyard Lake boat house Rudyard miniature railway Lakeside homes View of Rudyard Lake Rudyard Lake is a reservoir in Staffordshire constructed in 1797/8 to feed the Trent and Mersey canal. Its claim to fame is that John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Macdonald, parents of Rudyar..
Rudyard Lake Steam Railway
Rudyard Lake Steam Railway Contents 1 Description2 Locomotives3 Facilities4 External links Description The current railway is the third on this site and runs for a mile and a half along the side of Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire. The railway runs on the track bed of an old stan..
Rudyard Township, Michigan
Rudyard Township is a civil township of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,315. Contents 1 Communities2 Geography3 Demographics4 External links Communities Rudyard is an unincorporated community within the town..
Rudy (Cher song)
"Rudy" is the first U.S. official single release from American singer/actress Cher's 26th album I Paralyze. Charts Year Single  US   world wide   1982 Rudy — — Notes Rudy failed to chart. ..
Rudy (film)
Theatrical poster for "Rudy." Rudy is a 1993 film directed by David Anspaugh. It is an account of the life of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles. Taglines: When people say dreams don't come true, tell ..
Rudy Autio
Rudy Autio (b. October 8, 1926) is an American sculptor, best known for his figurative ceramic vessels. Autio was born Arne Rudolf Autio on October 8, 1926 in Butte, Montana, to a family of Finnish immigrants. As a child, he first learned to draw by taking evening classes from Works Progress Adm..
Rudy Baker
Rudy Baker allegedly became head of the USA Communist Party's underground secret apparatus in 1938 succeeding J. Peters. Baker, who was born in 1898 in Vukovar, Croatia, probably under the name Rudolph Blum had little formal education. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1909. Bak..
Rudy Barber
Rudy Barber (born December 24, 1944) was an American college and professional football player. A linebacker, he played college football at the Bethune-Cookman, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Miami Dolphins in 1968. See also Other American Football League players ..
Rudy Boesch
MCPO Rudy Boesch, ret. Rudy Boesch (born January 20, 1928) was the oldest competitor on [[Survivor: Borneo]] at 72 years of age. He got third place after losing a physical challenge, where he let his hand slip from a pole, near the end of the season. Shortly after the show finished airing, B..
Rudy Boschwitz
Rudolph Ely "Rudy" Boschwitz (b.1930) is a former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota. He served in the Senate from December 1978 to January 1991, when he was defeated by Paul Wellstone. Boschwitz was born in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 1930. In 1933 his family fled Nazi ..
Rudy Bozak
Rudy T. Bozak was a designer and technician in the field of music reproduction. In 1950 he was hired as a consultant by McIntosh Labs to develop a square loudspeaker driver unit - this was not an engineering success. However, in 1952 he was making driver units for the McIntosh F100 speaker system. ..
Rudy Bukich
[] at NFL.com Rudy Bukich (born December 15, 1932, in St. Louis, MO) is a retired american football quarterback. Professional Career Bukich played in the National Football League between 1953 and 1968. College Career Boyer played college football at the University of Southern California..
Rudy Chapa
(Rodolfo) "Rudy" Chapa (born 1957) is a Mexican-American businessman who had a successful career as a runner. Chapa was born November 7, 1957 into humble circumstances in Hammond, Indiana. He is the son of Mexican immigrants. His father Rodolfo Sr. came to the USA as a mechanic through the Bracero..
Rudy Charles
Daniel Engler (born November 20, 1977 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American professional wrestling referee, better known by his ring name, Rudy Charles. Charles is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and is the promotion's senior referee. Career Charles trained as a refer..
Rudy Coby
Rudy Coby, also known as "Labman", is a veteran of televison programs and live performances worldwide. He is a respected member of the Comedy and Magic Castle in Los Angeles, and has entertained audiences globally since the mid-1980s after venturing from his native middle-New York upbringing. Findin..
Rudy Colombini
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Rudy Concepción
Rudy Concepción (1915–1941) was a Filipino actor, who made his film debut in 1935, in a movie entitled Kundiman ng Puso (Song of Heart). His famous partner was a soprano singer named Rosario Moreno. He was also a notable singer, and had a distinctive singing style of his own. Unusually for mov..
Rudy Demotte
Rudy Demotte (born June 3, 1963) is a Belgian socialist politician who currently serves as Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, in the Belgian federal government. Life He was born in Ronse (French: Renaix). From 1988 to 1990 he served on the cabinet of the Minister of Social Affairs. H..
Rudy de Leon
Rudy F. de Leon (born August 28, 1952) was Deputy Secretary of Defense from March 31, 2000 until March 16, 2001. He is presently Boeing's senior vice president of Washington, D.C. Operations and a member of the Executive Council. He leads all federal, state and local government operations for the co..
Rudy Fernández
This article is not about the actor of the same name. Rodolfo Fernández (born December 5, 1947) referred as the Iron Man of Asia, is a multi-awarded one-legged Filipino triathlete who had finished a degree in Physical Education. He was a housemate of ABS-CBN's Pinoy Big Brother: [[Pinoy Big Br..
Rudy Galindo
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Rudy Gay
--> Rudy Carlton Gay, Jr. (born August 17, 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former college basketball player for the Connecticut Huskies. Gay is 6 feet, 9 inches and 220 pounds, and played as a sophomore in the 2005-06 season. He was selected as the 8th overall pick by the Houston Rockets in the 2..
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani speaks to the press about New York's status two years after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani III KBE "America's Mayor" (born May 28 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1 1994 through December 31 2001. ..
Rudy Hartono
Rudy Hartono Kurniawan (Chinese: 梁海量, phonetic translation: 哈托诺, born August 18, 1949) was an Indonesian badminton player who won the world championship in 1980, and the All-England Champions trophy 8 times in the 1960s and 1970s. Rudy was born in Surabaya, Indonesia. He is a Peranakan ..
Rudy Hernandez
Rudolph Albert Hernandez Fuentes (born on December 10, 1931 in Santiago, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. The right-hander was signed by the New York Giants before the 1950 season. He was acquired by the Washington Senators from the San Francisco Giants before the 1..
Rudy Huxtable
Rudith Lillian "Rudy" Huxtable is the name of a fictional character portrayed by actress Keshia Knight Pulliam on the American television sitcom The Cosby Show, which was broadcast on NBC from 1984 until 1992. Rudy was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1979 and is the youngest of five children born to..
Rudy Jordache
Rudolph Jordache is the central character of the novel Rich Man, Poor Man. He was born in 1929 in Port Philip, New York, to bakery owners Axel and Mary Jordache. Novel [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. In high school, Rudy was a top student, making the ..
Rudy Lambert
Rudolph Carl Lambert was an American citizen and head of the California Communist Party Labor Commission and also headed of its security section in the 1940s. Lambert first fell under FBI scrutiny in connection with its Comintern Apparatus investigation. Lambert is named in a 1945 San Francisco KGB..
Rudy Lapick
Rudy Lapick is an artist who has worked as an inker in the comics industry. ..
Rudy Larriva
Rudolph "Rudy" Larriva was an American animator and director from the 1940s to the 1980s. Larriva worked at a number of animation studios, including Format Films, Filmation, Walt Disney Productions, but is best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons and UPA. Some of the productions he has worke..
Rudy LaRusso
Rudolph A. LaRusso (November 11, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York – July 10, 2004 in Los Angeles, California) was a 5-time NBA All-Star. He was taken by the Minneapolis Lakers (now the Los Angeles Lakers) in the 2nd round of the 1959 draft out of Dartmouth College, and played 10 years with them and ..
Rudy May
Rudolph May Jr. (born July 18, 1944 in Coffeyville, Kansas) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1965 to 1983 for the California Angels, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. May was noted for possessing a very good curveball. External link [Rudy May career stats''] ..
Rudy Park
Rudy Park is a syndicated comic strip created by Darrin Bell and Theron Heir that is distributed by United Media. The strip started in early 2001, when its principal character was laid off from his job at a dot-com company but eventually found a new job as a barista in a coffee shop. Because of it..
Rudy Perez
Rudy Pérez is an American songwriter and producer. During the last 25 years, he has composed over 600 songs and written and produced hits for international artists such as Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, Michael Bolton, Luis Miguel, Jose Feliciano and Marc Anthony, among others. He is the firs..
Rudy Perpich
Rudy Perpich (June 27, 1928–September 21, 1995) was an American dentist and politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from December 29, 1976 to January 4, 1979, and from January 3, 1983 to January 7, 1991. This was the lon..
Rudy Pilous
Rudy Pilous (August 11, 1914 - December, 1994) was a Canadian National Hockey League coach. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he coached the Chicago Blackhawks from 1958 to 1963. In 1961, he led the Hawks to their most recent Stanley Cup victory. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. ..
Rudy Pompilli
Bill Haley and His Comets in 1956. Left to right: Rudy Pompilli, Billy Williamson, Al Rex, Johnny Grande, Ralph Jones, Franny Beecher. Top: Bill Haley. Rudy Pompilli (b. Rudolph Clement Pompilii, Chester, Pennsylvania April 16, 1924 (many sources say 1926); d. February 5, 1976) was an Italian..
Rudy Ransom
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Rudy Ray Moore
Rudy Ray Moore (born March 17, 1937 in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is an African-American comedian, singer, film actor, and film producer. He is perhaps best known as Dolemite, the uniquely articulate pimp (“… rappin’ & tappin’ is my game!”) from the 1975 film Dolemite, and its sequel, The Human..
Rudy Rotta
Rudy Rotta is a great blues-guitarist. He is born in Italy, and still lives near Verona (Italy). Rudy Rotta is a name you won't easily forget once you've heard or seen him perform. This native born italian has the blues not only in his blood, but deep down in his soul as well. After making it big..
Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker, Fall 2004, photo by Georgia Rucker. Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American computer scientist and science fiction author, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he i..
Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo (born 1950) is a bassist who has played with Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Manic Eden, Dio, etc. Rudy was born in Cuba and left Cuba in 1961. He is currently playing with Dio. Rudy is an avid computer digital animator. He recently created the concert 3D animated open for the vide..
Rudy Seanez
Rudy Caballero Seanez (born October 20, 1968 in Brawley, California) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1989 through 2005, Seanez has played for the Cleveland Indians (1989-1991), San Diego Padres (1993, the first half of 2001, 2005), Los Angeles Dodgers (1994-1995), Atlanta Brave..
Rudy Svorinich
Rudy Svorinich (born 1960) is a Republican who served on the Los Angeles City Council representing the 15th district. A resident of San Pedro, his diverse district also includes the community of Watts. He was elected to the council in 1993 and served two full terns. One of his major accomplishments ..
Rudy Tabootie
Rudolph Bartholomew "Rudy" Tabootie was the protagonist and main character from the Nickelodeon animated television series ChalkZone. This shy daydreamer made his debut in the very first ChalkZone short featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons (later shown on the regular series as "Rudy's First Adventure")..
Rudy Tomjanovich
Rudolph Tomjanovich (born November 24, 1948 in Hamtramck, Michigan), nicknamed "Rudy T.", is best known as a basketball player and coach. Contents 1 Early life2 Basketball2.1 Playing career2.2 Coaching career3 References4 External links Early life Tomjanovich was ..
Rudy Trouvé
Rudy Trouvé (Born january 28, 1967 in Wilrijk) is a Belgian musician from Antwerp. In the early nineties he founded the Heavenhotel label and released dozens of records since. Between 1993 and 1995 he was part of dEUS, quitting the band in favour of focussing on his own, more obscure music groups a..
Rudy Vallée
Rudy Vallee (July 28, 1901 - July 3, 1986) was a popular American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, he grew up in Westbrook, Maine. In high school he took up the saxophone and acquired the nickname "Rudy" after then famous saxophonist Rud..
Rudy VanderLans
Rudy VanderLans is a Dutch type and graphic designer and the co-founder of Emigre, an independent type foundry. VanderLans studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. Later, he moved to California and studied photography at U.C. Berkeley. In 1984, VanderLans, with his wife Zuzana Licko, found..
Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder (born November 2, 1924 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a recording engineer specialising in jazz. Rudy Van Gelder (left) with Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion One of the legendary backroom figures in Jazz, Rudy Van Gelder started out as a hobbyist recording friends in his ..
Rudy Weidoeft
Rudolph "Rudy" Cornelius Wiedoeft (January 3, 1893 - February 18, 1940) was a U.S. saxophonist. Rudy Weidoeft, 1919 Born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of German immigrants, at a young age Weidoeft started playing with his family orchestra, first on violin, then on clarinet. He moved to New Yo..
Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Henry Wiebe (born 4 October 1934) is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992. Wiebe was born at Speedwell, near Fairholme, Saskatchewan in what would later become his family’s chicken barn. For thirteen years he lived in ..
Rudy Wurlitzer
Rudy Wurlitzer is a US novelist and screenwriter. His books include Nog, Flats, Quake, and Slow Fade. Among his many screenplays are: Glen & Randa (directed by Jim McBride), 1969Two-Lane Blacktop (directed by Monte Hellman), 1971Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (directed by Sam Peckinpah), 1973Walke..
Rudy York
Preston Rudolph York (August 17, 1913 - February 5, 1970) was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Detroit Tigers (1934, 1937-45), Boston Red Sox (1946-47), Chicago White Sox (1947) and Philadelphia Athletics (1948). York was born in Ragland, Alabama. He batted and threw right-h..
Rudy Youngblood
Rudy Youngblood, also known as Tee-Dee-Nae (which means "Strong Boy") plays the lead role in Oscar winning director Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Off-screen, Youngblood is a grass dancer, pow-wow singer and artist. Of Comanche, Cree and Yaqui origin, he was raised in Washington State, Texas and Arizona...
Rudy Zunich
Rudy Zunich (born November 24, 1910 in Calumet, Michigan, United States - died March 13, 1974) was a professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings for 2 games during the 1943-44 NHL season. He was held pointless, but he did register a minor penalty. ..
Rud Hud Hudibras
Rud Hud Hudibras (Welsh: Run baladr bras) was a legendary king of the Britons as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was the son of King Leil and ruled during a civil war. During the waning years of Leil's reign, the kingdom of the Britons became unstable, and civil war broke out. Rud Hud Hudib..

 

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