Rutger

Rutger is a male first name. He is considered the Dutch form of the ancient Germanic Rüdiger, as well as the names and Rütger Rudgar.

Origin and Meaning of the Name

Rutger is an old German first name, composed of Germanic hroth / hruod " fame, glory " and Old High German ger " Ger, spear ". Germanic personal name composed of two elements, often contain elements of ancestors.

The name had become mainly by the hero of the Nibelungenlied, Margrave of Rudeger Bechelaren known.

Day of: March 16 ( Rüdiger )

Bearers of the name

• Rutger ( Dombaumeister ) ( † around 1333), Cologne cathedral builder

• Rutger of mountain ash (1621-1693), German Field Marshal in the service of Sweden
• Rutger Backe ( born 1951 ), Swedish football player
• Rutger Beke ( born 1977 ), Belgian athlete
• Rutger of Brüggenei (13 ** -1404 ), Bishop of Courland
• Rutger Gunnarsson ( born 1946 ), Swedish musician
• Rutger Hauer ( b. 1944 ), Dutch actor
• Rutger I. ( Kleve ), is considered the first Count of Cleves
• Rutger II ( Kleve ), is regarded as the second Duke of Cleves
• Rutger field of Langer (1635-1695), Flemish painter and architect
• Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825), a Dutch diplomat and politician
• Rutger Sernander (1866-1944), Swedish botanist
• Rutger Smith ( born 1981 ), Dutch athlete