List of Famous people named Rudolf

Rudolf Meinert (1882–1945) was an Austrian screenwriter, film producer and director.

Rudolf von Carnall was a German mining engineer and mineralogist. The mineral carnallite was named after him.

Rudolf Kittel was a German Old Testament scholar.

Rudolf Lenz was an Austrian actor.

Rudolf Lettinger was a German stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1883 when he played the role of Kosinsky in Friedrich Schiller's drama The Robbers. Some of his more prominent roles in his prestigious stage career were Cyrano de Bergerac and Gessler in William Tell. He also worked with acclaimed stage director Max Reinhardt. In 1912, Lettinger played his first film role in Das Geheimnis von Monte Carlo. Lettinger appeared in over 90 films until 1931, mostly as a supporting actor. His best-known film is perhaps The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), where Lettinger portrayed Dr. Olsen.

Rudolf Friedrichs was a German politician who served as the Minister-President of Saxony in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to his death.

Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids.