Raoul

Raoul is a French variant of the male given name Ralph, and is also a surname.

Given names

• 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
• 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
• Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian
• Raoul Walsh (1887–1980), film director

In media

• Raoul Duke, a recurring character and author surrogate of writer Hunter S. Thompson
• Viscount Raoul de Chagny, character in The Phantom of the Opera
• Raoul (song), the second single by indie band The Automatic
• Raoul (EP), an EP by The Automatic
• Bushman (comics) (Raoul Bushman), a Marvel Comics character
• Raoul, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Raoul Silva, the main antagonist in film Skyfall, played by Javier Bardem

Surnames

• 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

Places

• Raoul, Georgia, United States
• Raoul Island in the Pacific Ocean
• Raul, a cognate of this name