Raoul

Raoul is an inherited from the French male first name.

Name Variants

  • Ralf, Raúl, Radulf, Ranulph

Well-known bearers of the name

  • Raoul Aslan (1886-1958), actor and director of the Burgtheater
  • Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), French painter
  • Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971), Austrian- German Artists of Dadaism
  • Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (1914-2003), German actor, radio speaker, director and author
  • Raoul Schrott (born 1964 ), Austrian writer
  • Raoul Strohhäker (* 1987), German chess player
  • Raoul Wallenberg (* 1912), Swedish diplomat
  • Raoul Walsh (1887-1980), American film director
  • Radulf of Bourges (ca. 800-866 ), Archbishop of Bourges
  • Rodulfus Glaber ( * ca 985-1047 ), Burgundian Benedictine monk, historian and hagiographer
  • Radulf the Cistercian, Cistercian monk of French in the 12th century
  • Raoul II de Brienne († 1350), son of Raoul I de Brienne, Count of Eu and Guines
  • Raoul I de Coucy ( * after 1142, † 1191 ), Lord ( Sire ) of Coucy, Marle, Vervins, Pinon, Crépy, Crécy and La Fere
  • Raoul I de Gaël (ca. 1040-1096 ), Lord of Gaël and Montfort, as well as 2nd Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk
  • Raoul de Grosparmy († 1270), Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
  • Raoul I ( Soissons ) ( † 1237 ), Count of Soissons out of the house Nesle
  • Raoul II Sores († 1282), Marshal of France
  • Raoul I de Tosny ( † before 1024), the first member of the House Tosny, bear this name,

Family name

  • Alfred Raoul (1938-1999), Congolese Head of State and Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo

Literary figures

  • Raoul de Nangis in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots ( opera )

Places

  • Raoul Iceland, the main island of Kermadecinseln, New Zealand

Swell

  • Hans Bahlow - German dictionary of names. Family and first name explains the origin and meaning., Gondrom, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4
  • Günther Drosdowski - Duden Dictionary of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand names, Bibliographical Institute ( Duden ), Mannheim / Wien / Zurich 1974
  • Margit Eberhard- Wabnitz & Horst Leisenring - Knaurs name the book - Droemersche Publishing Company, 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8
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