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