Raoul

Raoul is the French surname and may refer to:

In media

• Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, character in The Phantom of the Opera
• Raoul (song), the second single by indie band The Automatic
• Raoul EP, the extended play featuring b-sides from The Automatic's first album Not Accepted Anywhere
• Raoul and the Kings of Spain, the fifth album by the British pop-rock band Tears for Fears (and the name of the first single from this album)
• Garfield's Family Raoul is a cartoon character in Garfield, he is Garfield's half-brother

People

• Raoul; alleged conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., according to convicted assassin James Earl Ray

Surnames

• Raoul (Byzantine family), Byzantine aristocratic family of Norman descent
  • Alexios Raoul (protovestiarios), Byzantine general
  • Theodora Raoulaina (ca. 1240-1300), Byzantine noblewoman, nun and scholar
• Étienne Fiacre Louis Raoul (1815–1852), French naval surgeon and naturalist

Given names

• Raoul Berger, American legal scholar
• Raoul Bova, Italian actor
• Radulphus Brito (Raoul le Breton; † 1320), grammarian
• See Lament for the Makars for Roull of Corstorphin and Roull of Aberdene; fifteenth century poets
• Raoul de Godewaersvelde, French singer
• Raoul Duke, alter ego of Hunter Thompson
• Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy; also known as Raoul, Duke of Burgundy (and later king of the Franks), son of Richard of Autun
• Raoul Heertje, Dutch stand-up comedian
• Raoul Moat, English fugitive and gunman at the centre of the 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt
• Raoul of Turenne or Saint-Raoul, archbishop of Bourges, 840-866. Called Father of the fatherland
• Raoul, founder of Vaucelles Abbey or Saint Raoul (also San Raul)
• Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian
• Raoul Walsh Director and Hollywood legend (1887-1980)

Places

• Raoul, Georgia, United States
• Raoul Island in the Pacific Ocean