Raoul
Raoul is a French variant of the male given name Ralph or Rudolph.Given names
- Raoul Berger, American legal scholar
- Raoul Bova, Italian actor
- Radulphus Brito, 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, 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 or Saint Raoul
- Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian
- Raoul Walsh, film director
In media
- Raoul and the Kings of Spain, a 1995 studio album by British group Tears for Fears featuring the title track single
- 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, the second single by indie band The Automatic
- Raoul, an EP by The Automatic
- 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
- Raoul, one of the main characters of the 2010 animation "A Monster in Paris".
- Raoul Robideux, one of the main characters of the French–Canadian web series 'Tetes a Claques'
Surnames
- Raoul, Byzantine aristocratic family of Norman descent
- * Alexios Raoul, Byzantine general
- * Theodora Raoulaina, Byzantine noblewoman, nun and scholar
- Étienne Fiacre Louis Raoul, French naval surgeon and naturalist
- Kwame Raoul, American politician and 42nd Attorney General of Illinois
Places
- Raoul, Georgia, United States
- Raoul Island in the Pacific Ocean