Raoul
Raoul is a male name .
It is the French form of the name of Radulf , Rudolf and Ranulph .
Name variants
- Raul - Spanish
Name bearer
middle Ages
- Radulf von Bourges (approx. 800–866), archbishop of Bourges
- Rodulfus Glaber (* approx. 985-1047), Burgundian Benedictine monk, historian and hagiographer
- Radulf the Cistercian , French Cistercian monk in the 12th century
- Raoul I. de Brienne (1302–1344), son of John III., Count of Eu
- Raoul II. De Brienne († 1350), son of Raoul I de Brienne, Count of Eu and Guînes
- Raoul I. de Coucy (* after 1142; † 1191), Lord (Sire) of Coucy, Marle, Vervins, Pinon, Crépy, Crécy and La Fère
- Raoul I. de Gaël (approx. 1040-1096), Lord of Gaël and Montfort, and 2nd Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk
- Raoul de Grosparmy († 1270), Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
- Raoul I (Soissons) († 1236), Count of Soissons from the House of Nesle
- Raoul II. Sores († 1282), Marshal of France
- Raoul I. de Tosny († before 1024), the first member of the Tosny family to bear this name
- Raoul II. De Tosny (* before 1040; † 1102), Anglo-Norman baron at the time of William the Conqueror
- Raoul III. de Tosny († around 1106), Anglo-Norman Banro at the time of Henry I.
Modern times
- Raoul Aslan (1886–1958), actor and Burgtheater director
- Raoul Bott (1923-2005), American mathematician
- Raoul Cauvin (* 1938), Belgian comic book author
- Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), French painter
- Raoul Heinrich Francé (1874–1943), Austro-Hungarian botanist, microbiologist, natural and cultural philosopher
- Raoul Gehringer (1971–2018), Austrian composer and choir director
- Raoul Hausmann (1886–1971), Austro-German Dadaist artist
- Raoul W. Heimrich (1964) German film director
- Raoul Koczalski (1885–1948), Polish pianist and composer
- Raoul Lamourdedieu (1877–1953), French sculptor and medalist
- Raoul Manselli (1917–1984), Italian historian
- Raoul Pugno (1852–1914), French pianist, organist, composer and music teacher
- Raoul Retzer (1919–1974), Austrian actor
- Raoul Richter (1871–1912), German philosopher
- Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (1914–2003), German actor, radio play speaker, director and author
- Raoul Schrott (* 1964), Austrian writer
- Raoul Strohhäker (* 1987), German chess player
- Raoul Trujillo (* 1955), American actor, dancer and choreographer of Native American descent
- Raoul Ubac (1910–1985), Belgian painter, photographer and sculptor
- Raoul Verlet (1857–1923), French sculptor
- Raoul Wallenberg (1912–1952), Swedish diplomat
- Raoul Walsh (1887–1980), American film director
family name
- Alfred Raoul (1938–1999), Congolese head of state and Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo
- Désiré Raoul-Rochette (1789–1854), French classical archaeologist
- Émilienne Raoul (* 1945), Congolese geographer and politician
Literary figures
- Raoul de Nangis in Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Die Huguenots
places
- Raoul, Georgia , in Habersham County
- Raoul Island , main island of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
swell
- Hans Bahlow - German Name Lexicon. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning. , Gondrom, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4
- Günther Drosdowski - Duden Lexicon of First Names: Origin, Meaning and Use of several thousand first names , Bibliographisches Institut (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974
- Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz & Horst Leisering - Knaur's first name book -, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8