Raoul

Raoul is a French variant of the male given name Ralph or Rudolph, and a cognate of Raul.

Raoul may also refer to:

Given name

• Raoul Berger, American legal scholar
• Raoul Bova, Italian actor
• Radulphus Brito (Raoul le Breton, died 1320), grammarian
• See Lament for the Makaris for Roull of Corstorphin and Roull of Aberdene; fifteenth-century poets
• Raoul de Godewaersvelde, French singer
• 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
• Raoul (founder of Vaucelles Abbey) or Saint Raoul
• Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian
• Raoul Walsh (1887–1980), film director
• Raoul, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Surname

• Raoul (Byzantine family), Byzantine aristocratic family of Norman descent
  • Alexios Raoul, Byzantine general
  • Theodora Raoulaina (c. 1240–1300), Byzantine noblewoman, nun and scholar
• Étienne Fiacre Louis Raoul (1815–1852), French naval surgeon and naturalist
• Kwame Raoul (b. 1964), American politician and 42nd Attorney General of Illinois

Fictional characters

• Viscount Raoul de Chagny, character in The Phantom of the Opera
• Bushman (character) (full name Raoul Bushman), a Marvel Comics character
• Raoul Duke, a recurring character and author surrogate of writer Hunter S. Thompson
• Raoul, one of the main characters of the 2010 animation A Monster in Paris
• Raoul CaRoule from the 2011 animated film Cars 2
• Raoul Silva, the main antagonist in the 2012 film Skyfall, played by Javier Bardem
• Raoul Robideux, one of the main characters of the French–Canadian web series Tetes a Claques
• Raoul Diop, son of protagonist Assane Diop in the Netflix French TV series Lupin

Places

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

Other

• Raoul and the Kings of Spain, a 1995 studio album by British group Tears for Fears
  • "Raoul and the Kings of Spain" (song), the title track from the album
• "Raoul" (song), a 2006 single by indie band The Automatic
  • Raoul (EP), an EP by The Automatic

See also

• Raul, a cognate of this name