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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 m. Its length is from 60 to 150 cm.
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 end of the war.
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 Australia in late August 2001.
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 northern part of the range migrating as far south as Borneo during winter.
Ruddy Rodríguez Ruddy Rosario Rodríguez de Lucía (born 1967) is an Venezuelan actress, model and Businesswoman. Born in March 20, 1967 in Anaco, Anzoátegui, daughter of Venezuelan Pedro José Rodríguez and Italian Rita de Lucía.
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. Its closest living relatives seems to be the North American species complex containing of the Veery, the Gray-cheeked, and Bicknell's Thrush (Winker & Pruett, 2006).
Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher The Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher, Terenotriccus erythrurus, is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in lowlands from southeastern Mexico to northern Bolivia, central Brazil and the Guianas.
Rude and Smooth The "Rude and Smooth" crew was the Harvard Varsity Men's 8+ in 1974 and 1975. In addition to undefeated seasons, these crews captured the unofficial national championships in both years, and went on to place second to the British National team in the Henley Royal Regatta, beating the boat that was essentially the US National team on the way in 1975.
Rude Awakening Presente Rude Awakening Presente is a record label based in Montpellier, France. Created in 2003, the catalogue now includes contemporary jazz and improvised music but also improvised jazz electro, contemporary pop, and abstract hip hop.
Rude Britain Rude Britain (subtitled 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain) is a 2005 book of humour and toponymy. The book (ISBN 0-7522-2581-2) is written by Rob Bailey and Ed Hurst, and published in the United Kingdom by the Pan Macmillan imprint Boxtree.
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 subculture of Ska that was popular at the time.
Rude Jude Rude Jude (born Jude Anthony Angelini on September 25th, 1977 in Pontiac, Michigan), was a routine guest onThe Jenny Jones Show, and now co-hosts The All Out Show with Lord Sear on Sirius Satellite Radio's Shade 45 channel.
Rude Mechanical Orchestra The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a New York City-based radical marching band founded in 2004 by members of the Hungry March Band and the Infernal Noise Brigade. Though actually a "walking band," strictly speaking, the group performs at protest marches and benefits for lefty causes in New York City and throughout the Northeast.
Rude Mechanicals (a.k.a. Rude Mechs) Rude Mechanicals (sometimes referred to as Rude Mechs) is a collaborative theater company operating out of Austin, TX. Founded in 1995, the company first reached notable success with the creation of their play Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, based on the book by Greil Marcus.
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).
Rudeness 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 normally accepted behaviour.
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, hip hop, rocksteady, and rub-a-dub – even adding elements of funk, jazz, and punk - to create their own unique sound.
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 Søllerød and Birkerød.
Rudge-Whitworth (motorcycles) Rudge Whitworth Cycles was a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer that resulted from the merger of two bicycle manufacturers in 1894, one of which descended from the original bicycle company founded by Daniel Rudge. Rudge motorcycles were produced from 1911 to 1946.
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 until his death.
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.
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.
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.
Rudi Dutschke Rudi Dutschke born Alfred Willi 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. Later he was one of the founding members of the Green Party of Germany.
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 Prizzi's Honor.
Rudi Fink 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 on points (4-1).
Rudi Lochner Rudi Lochner (born 29 March 1953) is a retired German bobsledder who competed in the bobsleigh events at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Lochner won a silver medal in the two-person bobsleigh event with teammate Markus Zimmermann.
Rudi Schneider Rudi Schneider (1908 – 1957), brother of Willi Schneider, was an Austrian spiritualist physical medium investigated by notable psychical researchers Harry Price, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and Eric J. Dingwall.
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.
Rudi Völler Rudolf 'Rudi' Völler (born April 13 1960 in Hanau, Hessen, Germany) is a German former international football striker, and a former manager of the German national team. He won the FIFA World Cup in 1990 as a player and coached the national team to second place at the 2002 World Cup.
Rudi Vis Dr 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 — part of which formed the former constituency of Margaret Thatcher — which he won in the 1997 general election.
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.
Rudis rattail The rudis rattail, Coryphaenoides rudis, is a fish of the family Macrouridae, found in all the world's tropical and subtropical oceans, at depths of between 600 and 2,300 m. Its length is between 30 and 40 cm, although FishBase gives lengths of up to 1.
Rudists Rudists are a group of bivalves that peaked in abundance and diversity during the late Mesozoic era, particularly 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 neighboring rudists, and a smaller upper valve that served as a kind of lid for the organism.
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.
Rudnaya Pristan Rudnaya Pristan () is a village (selo) 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 .
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 in the Visual Arts (1982), but it is Art and Visual Perception for which he is most widely known.
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.
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 by President Emil Hácha on December 1, 1938, and served until April 27, 1939.
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.
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 research, even by scholars who reject his analyses of the conventional rhetorical tropes or narrative units of which the Gospels are assembled, and the historically-oriented principles called "form criticism," of which Bultmann has been the most influential exponent:
Rudolf Burkert Rudolf Burkert (1904-1985) was a German-born Czechoslovakian Nordic skiier who competed in the 1920's and 1930's. He won a bronze medal in the ski jumping individual large hill competition at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St.
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 advocate of logical positivism.
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 cooperative behaviour without punishment or reward.
Rudolf Duala Manga Bell Rudolf Duala Manga Bell (1873–8 August 1914) was a Duala king and resistance leader in the German colony of Kamerun. After being educated in both Kamerun and Europe, he succeeded his father, Manga Ndumbe Bell, on 2 September 1908.
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.
Rudolf Firkusny Rudolf Firkusny (Czech Rudolf Firkušný) (February 11, 1912-July 19, 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.
Rudolf Fleischmann Rudolf Fleischmann (May 1, 1903, Erlangen - February 3, 2002, Erlangen) was a German physicist and a pioneer of nuclear physics. He was imprisoned in the cause of Operation Alsos and returned to Germany from the Unites States in 1947, when he became professor at the University of Hamburg.
Rudolf Flesch Rudolf Flesch (1911-1986) was an author, readability expert, and writing consultant who was an early and vigorous proponent of plain English in the United States. He created the Flesch Reading Ease test and was co-creator of the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test.
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 ultracold atomic quantum gases.
Rudolf Haag Rudolf Haag (* 1922 in TĂĽbingen, 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, which connects incoming and outgoing field operators in interacting quantum field theories.
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 an estimated 1.
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 1922 to 1923 under Wilhelm Cuno.
Rudolf Hess Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew to Mayhill army barracks in Glasgow, Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace, but was arrested.
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.
Rudolf Holsti Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti (1881–1945) was a Finnish politician, journalist and a diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Finland 1919–1922 and 1936–1938 and a member of the Finnish Parliament 1913–1918 representing the Young Finnish Party (Nuorsuomalainen Puolue).
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 and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. Rudolf was the son of Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria, and Mechthild, a daughter of King Rudolph I.
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.
Rudolf Island Rudolf Island named after Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria is the northernmost island of the Franz Josef Land, Russia, it is located at . Teplitz Bay is a camp site that served as a staging point for numerous polar expeditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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 signal from a series of incomplete and noisy measurements.
Rudolf Kastner Rudolf (Rezső) Kastner (Kasztner), also known as Israel (Yisrael) Kastner, (1906, Cluj, Transylvania–March 3, 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 the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II (see History of Hungary: World War II). Formerly a lawyer and journalist, as the head of the Vaada, he was one of the conduits between the Nazis and the Jewish community in Hungary.
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.
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 from France, and his mother's family was from England.
Rudolf Leiding Rudolf Leiding (born September 4, 1914; died September 3, 2003) was the third postwar chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company, succeeding Kurt Lotz in 1971. Under Leiding's leadership, the Volkswagen Golf was completed and went on sale in Europe in June 1974, introduced in North America as the Rabbit seven months later.
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. He also wrote the short story "The Expedition", which takes place in the future, when a voyage begins to the furthest known planet in the solar system, Cerberus.
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.
Rudolf Maister 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 Styria, thus securing it for the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
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 fĂĽr Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II.
Rudolf Noack Rudolf "Rudi" Noack (born 30 March 1913; died probably 30 June 1947) was a German football (soccer) player. He played in the 1934 FIFA World Cup, scoring one goal in the tournament against Czechoslovakia in the semi-finals.
Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Nureyev (Tatar form Rudolf Xämät ulı Nuriev, Russian Рудольф Хаметович Нуриев) (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993), Tatar-born dancer, is regarded as one of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century, alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Rudolf Peresin Rudolf Peresin (1958-1995), a Croatian pilot in the Yugoslav People's Army, escaped from Zeljava airport to Klagenfurt, Austria in 1991, because he didn't want to shoot at Croatian solders during the Yugoslav war. He was the first pilot to leave JNA due to disapproval of war.
Rudolf Povarnitsyn Rudolf Povarnitsyn () (born June 12, 1962 in Votkinsk) 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 for the USSR.
Rudolf Prikryl Rudolf Prikryl (21 March 1896 – 13 June 1965) was the provisionally-instated mayor of Vienna from 13 April to 16 April 1945, and is remembered as the "three days' mayor" (German: Drei-Tage-Bürgermeister).
Rudolf Ramek Rudolf Ramek (12 April 1881, Teschen (present-day Cieszyn, Poland) - 24 July 1941, Vienna) was an Austrian political figure. A member of the Christian Social Party, he served as chancellor of Austria from 20 November 1924 to 20 October 1926.
Rudolf Ritsema Rudolf Ritsema (October 3, 1918 — May 8, 2006) was the director of the Fondazione Eranos (Eranos Foundation) for over thirty years and the editor of the Eranos‑Jahrbuch serial (beginning with its vol. 38 published in 1972).
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.
Rudolf Schindler 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 with some of its foremost practitioners, his inventive use of complex three dimensional forms, warm materials, striking colors, and tight budgets have placed him as one of the true mavericks of 20th century architecture.
Rudolf Schmundt Rudolf Schmundt (August 13, 1896, Metz - October 1, 1944, Rastenburg) was a General of the Wehrmacht during World War II 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 bomb in a suitcase beside Hitler, but an officer moved it behind a heavy table leg.
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.
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.
Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský (July 31 1901, Nezvěstice near Blovice – December 2 1952, Prague) 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.
Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner (February 25, 1861 – March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and esotericist.Some of the literature regarding Steiner's work in these various fields: Goulet, P: "Les Temps Modernes?
Rudolf van Diepholt Rudolf van Diepholt, born Rudolf von Diepholz, (died Vollenhove 24 March 1455) was one of the most influential Prince-Bishops of Utrecht in the late Middle Ages. He ruled as bishop in Utrecht from 1423 to 1455.
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 appointments.
Rudolf von DelbrĂĽck Martin Friedrich Rudolf von DelbrĂĽck (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 1848 to the ministry of commerce, which was to be the sphere of his real life's work.
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.
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.
Rudolf von Sebottendorf Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff (or von Sebottendorf) 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 occultist organization that influenced many members of the NSDAP.
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.
Rudolf Virchow Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (born October 13, 1821, in Schivelbein, Pomerania; died September 5, 1902, in Berlin) was a German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician.
Rudolf Vrba Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg (September 11, 1924 – March 27, 2006), was a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia who was known internationally for his work on diabetes, cancer, and the chemistry of the brain. He is best known, however, for being the second of only five Jews Dromi, Uri.
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.
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:
Rudolf ZahradnĂ­k Rudolf ZahradnĂ­k (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.
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia (21 August 1858 - 30 January 1889) was the son and heir of (Kaiser) Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and (Kaiserin) Empress Elisabeth of Austria. His death, apparently through suicide, along with that of his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889 made international headlines, fueled international conspiracy rumours and ultimately may have sealed the long-term fate of the Habsburg monarchy.
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.
Rudolph Boysen Rudolph Boysen (July 14, 1895 — November 25, 1950) was a horticulturist who created the boysenberry, a hybrid between several varieties of blackberries, raspberries, and loganberries. Unable to make his new berry a commercial success, he abandoned the effort.
Rudolph Cartier 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 for the BBC.
Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond (26 May 1859–25 November 1939), was the eldest son of the 8th Earl of Denbigh and Mary Berkeley, the daughter of Robert Berkeley and Henrietta Benfield.

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