106-731: (Redirected from Rudolf ) For other uses, see Rudolph . Rudolph [REDACTED] King Rudolf the First of the German Habsburg Dynasty Pronunciation / r uː d ɒ l f / German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf] Gender Male Origin Word/name Indo-European Germanic Meaning "fame-wolf", "glory-wolf" Region of origin Germanic countries (Germany, England, Scotland,
212-649: A constitutional referendum on whether to adopt Russian as a second official language. According to the Central Election Commission, 74.8% voted against, 24.9% voted for and the voter turnout was 71.1%. Starting in 2019, instruction in Russian will be gradually discontinued in private colleges and universities in Latvia, and in general instruction in Latvian public high schools. On 29 September 2022, Saeima passed in
318-510: A new education law which requires all schools to teach at least partially in Ukrainian, with provisions while allow indigenous languages and languages of national minorities to be used alongside the national language. The law faced criticism from officials in Russia and Hungary. The 2019 Law of Ukraine "On protecting the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language" gives priority to
424-845: A 1952 science fiction short story by Jack Finney, which was later reported as a real person in an urban legend Rudolph "Rudy" Hatfield , American-Filipino retired professional basketball player Rudulph Evans , sculptor from Washington, D.C., who grew up in Virginia Rudolph Emmerich , German bacteriologist noted for his advances against cholera and his co-invention of the first antibiotic drug Pyocyanase with Oscar Löw Rudolf von Alt , Austrian landscape and architectural painter Rudolph "Rudy" Sikich , American National Football League player Rudolf Otto , German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist Rudolph Edward Torrini , American artist best known for his sculptures, wood carvings and bronze public monuments in
530-513: A Looney Tunes character Rudolph Reed, the protagonist of Gwendolyn Brooks ' poem "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed", published in Selected Poems (1963) Rudolf Ushiromiya, a character in the visual novel, manga, and anime series Umineko no Naku Koro ni Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rudolph . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
636-580: A Writer to the Military Junta Rodolphe Lemieux , Canadian parliamentarian and long time Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada Rudolf Pleil , German serial killer Rudolf Spielmann (1883–1942), Austrian-Jewish chess player Rudolf Straeuli (born 1963), South African rugby player and coach Rudolf Völler (born 1960), German football player Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006), Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology and Jewish escapee of
742-1101: A character in the animated television series Bob's Burgers Surname [ edit ] Athletes [ edit ] Ernie Rudolph (1909–2003), American baseball pitcher Gergely Rudolf (born 1985), Hungarian football player Jack Rudolph (American football) (1938–2019), American football player Jacques Rudolph (born 1981), South African cricketer Kyle Rudolph (born 1989), American football player Mason Rudolph (American football) (born 1995), American football player Mason Rudolph (golfer) (1934–2011), American golfer Nils Rudolph (born 1965), German freestyle swimmer Travis Rudolph (born 1995), American football player Wilma Rudolph (1940–1994), American Olympic athlete In film and television [ edit ] Alan Rudolph (born 1943), American film director and screenwriter Maya Rudolph (born 1972), American actress and comedian William Rudolph (died 1975), American film technician In science and technology [ edit ] Arthur Rudolph (1906–1996), German rocket scientist who helped develop
848-558: A hard or soft counterpart, and the distinction is a prominent feature of the language, which is usually shown in writing not by a change of the consonant but rather by changing the following vowel. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels . Stress , which is often unpredictable, is not normally indicated orthographically , though an optional acute accent may be used to mark stress – such as to distinguish between homographic words (e.g. замо́к [ zamók , 'lock'] and за́мок [ zámok , 'castle']), or to indicate
954-479: A language that "belongs to the European cultural space". The financing of Russian-language content by the state will cease, which the concept says create a "unified information space". However, one inevitable consequence would be the closure of public media broadcasts in Russian on LTV and Latvian Radio, as well as the closure of LSM's Russian-language service. In Lithuania , Russian has no official or legal status, but
1060-572: A lesser extent the languages to the south and the east: Uralic , Turkic , Persian , Arabic , and Hebrew . According to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California , Russian is classified as a level III language in terms of learning difficulty for native English speakers, requiring approximately 1,100 hours of immersion instruction to achieve intermediate fluency. Feudal divisions and conflicts created obstacles between
1166-607: A minority language under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities . 30% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 2% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. In Azerbaijan , Russian has no official status, but is a lingua franca of the country. 26% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 5% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. In Georgia , Russian has no official status, but it
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#17328368672961272-516: A qualitatively new entity can be said to emerge—the general language of the working class... capitalism has the tendency of creating the general urban language of a given society. In 2010, there were 259.8 million speakers of Russian in the world: in Russia – 137.5 million, in the CIS and Baltic countries – 93.7 million, in Eastern Europe – 12.9 million, Western Europe – 7.3 million, Asia – 2.7 million, in
1378-558: A village Rudolph (town), Wisconsin , adjacent to the village Rudolf Island , northernmost island of Europe Lake Rudolf , now Lake Turkana, in Kenya Art, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Fictional entities [ edit ] Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer , one of Santa Claus's reindeer Rudolph Farnsworth , a minor villain in the television series Kim Possible Rudolph, alternate name for Gossamer ,
1484-527: Is Belarusian, among ethnic Belarusians this share is 28.5%; the highest share of those who speak Belarusian at home is among ethnic Poles — 46.0%. In Estonia , Russian is spoken by 29.6% of the population, according to a 2011 estimate from the World Factbook, and is officially considered a foreign language. School education in the Russian language is a very contentious point in Estonian politics, and in 2022,
1590-475: Is a co-official language per article 5 of the Constitution of Kyrgyzstan . The 2009 census states that 482,200 people speak Russian as a native language, or 8.99% of the population. Additionally, 1,854,700 residents of Kyrgyzstan aged 15 and above fluently speak Russian as a second language, or 49.6% of the population in the age group. In Tajikistan , Russian is the language of inter-ethnic communication under
1696-401: Is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian , and a moderate degree of it in all modern Slavic languages, at least at the conversational level. Russian is written using a Cyrillic alphabet. The Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters. The following table gives their forms, along with IPA values for each letter's typical sound: Older letters of
1802-1761: Is a male first name, and, less commonly, a surname. It is an ancient Germanic name deriving from two stems: Hrōþi , Hruod , Hróðr or Hrōð , meaning "fame", "glory" "honour", "renown", and olf meaning "wolf" (Hrōþiwulfaz). In other languages [ edit ] Afrikaans : Roelof, Rudolf Albanian : Rudolf Arabic : رُودُلْف , romanized : rūdulf Armenian : Ռուդոլֆ (Rudolf) Catalan : Rodolf Croatian : Rudolf Czech : Rudolf Danish : Rudolf Dutch : Roelof, Rudolf, Ruud English : Rudolph, Rodolph, Rolph Estonian : Rudo, Ruudo, Ruudolf Finnish : Ruuto, Ruutolffi Flemish : Roel French : Rodolphe, Raoul Georgian : რუდოლფ (Rudolp) German : Rudolf, Rolf, Rudloff, diminutive: Rudi Greek : Ροδόλφος (Rhodólphos), Ράλλης (Rhálles) Hebrew : רודולף (Rudolf) Hungarian : Rudolf Indonesian : Rudolf Italian : Rodolfo Japanese :ルドルフ (Rudorufu), ルド (Rudo), ルディ (Rudi) Latin : Rudolphus Latvian : Rūdolfs , Rūdis Lithuanian : Rudolfas, Rudas Manx : Roolwer Norwegian : Rudolf Polish : Rudolf Portuguese : Rodolfo Russian : Рудольф (Rudolf) Serbian : Rudolf (Рудолф) Slovak : Rudolf Slovene : Rudolf Spanish : Rodolfo Swedish : Rudolf Given name [ edit ] Royalty and nobility [ edit ] Rudolph, Count of Ponthieu (died 866) Rudolph II of Burgundy (880–937) Rudolph of France (c. 890–936), reigned 923–936 Rudolf of Rheinfelden (1025–1080), Duke of Swabia Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg (died 1232) Rudolf I of Germany (1218–1291) Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270–1290) Rudolph I of Bohemia (1281–1307) Rudolf II, Count Palatine of
1908-593: Is a post-posed definite article -to , -ta , -te similar to that existing in Bulgarian and Macedonian. In the Southern Russian dialects , instances of unstressed /e/ and /a/ following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to [ɪ] (as occurs in the Moscow dialect), being instead pronounced [a] in such positions (e.g. несл и is pronounced [nʲaˈslʲi] , not [nʲɪsˈlʲi] ) – this
2014-647: Is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family . It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russians . It was the de facto and de jure official language of the former Soviet Union . Russian has remained an official language of the Russian Federation , Belarus , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , and Tajikistan , and
2120-485: Is being used less frequently by Russian-speaking typists in favor of the extension of Unicode character encoding , which fully incorporates the Russian alphabet. Free programs are available offering this Unicode extension, which allow users to type Russian characters, even on Western 'QWERTY' keyboards. The Russian language was first introduced to computing after the M-1 , and MESM models were produced in 1951. According to
2226-613: Is called yakanye ( яканье ). Consonants include a fricative /ɣ/ , a semivowel /w⁓u̯/ and /x⁓xv⁓xw/ , whereas the Standard and Northern dialects have the consonants /ɡ/ , /v/ , and final /l/ and /f/ , respectively. The morphology features a palatalized final /tʲ/ in 3rd person forms of verbs (this is unpalatalized in the Standard and Northern dialects). During the Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) times all Slavs spoke one mutually intelligible language or group of dialects. There
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#17328368672962332-658: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Rudolph (disambiguation) (Redirected from Rudolph (disambiguation) ) [REDACTED] Look up Rudolph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rudolph or Rudolf may refer to: People [ edit ] Rudolph (name) , the given name including a list of people with the name Religious figures [ edit ] Rudolf of Fulda (died 865), 9th century monk, writer and theologian Rudolf von Habsburg-Lothringen (1788–1831), Archbishop of Olomouc and member of
2438-563: Is more spoken than English. Sizable Russian-speaking communities also exist in North America, especially in large urban centers of the US and Canada, such as New York City , Philadelphia , Boston , Los Angeles , Nashville , San Francisco , Seattle , Spokane , Toronto , Calgary , Baltimore , Miami , Portland , Chicago , Denver , and Cleveland . In a number of locations they issue their own newspapers, and live in ethnic enclaves (especially
2544-564: Is odd") – чу́дно ( chúdno – "this is marvellous"), молоде́ц ( molodéts – "well done!") – мо́лодец ( mólodets – "fine young man"), узна́ю ( uznáyu – "I shall learn it") – узнаю́ ( uznayú – "I recognize it"), отреза́ть ( otrezát – "to be cutting") – отре́зать ( otrézat – "to have cut"); to indicate the proper pronunciation of uncommon words, especially personal and family names, like афе́ра ( aféra , "scandal, affair"), гу́ру ( gúru , "guru"), Гарси́я ( García ), Оле́ша ( Olésha ), Фе́рми ( Fermi ), and to show which
2650-789: Is one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers Rudolf Schenker (born 1948), German guitarist and founding member of heavy metal band Scorpions Rudolph Lewis , British bass-baritone Rudolf Fischer , German musician Wage Rudolf Supratman (1903–1938), Indonesian songwriter, and the composer who wrote both the melodies and lyric of the anthem Indonesia Raya Rudolf Kuki (1944 - 2013), violin and guitar player from Slovakia Rudolf Kuki (born 1971), oboe, saxophone and piano player from Slovakia Rudolf Kuki (born 2006), singer, pianist and Hammond organist from Slovakia Political figures [ edit ] Rudolf Anschober (born 1960), Austrian politician Rudolf von Auerswald , German official who served as Prime Minister of Prussia during
2756-402: Is recognized as a minority language under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities . Russian is the language of 9% of the population according to the World Factbook. Ethnologue cites Russian as the country's de facto working language. In China , Russian has no official status, but it is spoken by the small Russian communities in the northeastern Heilongjiang and
2862-569: Is sometimes considered to have played a significant role in the formation of modern Russian. Also, Russian has notable lexical similarities with Bulgarian due to a common Church Slavonic influence on both languages, but because of later interaction in the 19th and 20th centuries, Bulgarian grammar differs markedly from Russian. Over the course of centuries, the vocabulary and literary style of Russian have also been influenced by Western and Central European languages such as Greek, Latin , Polish , Dutch , German, French, Italian, and English, and to
2968-576: Is spoken by 14.2% of the population according to an undated estimate from the World Factbook. In 2005, Russian was the most widely taught foreign language in Mongolia, and was compulsory in Year 7 onward as a second foreign language in 2006. Around 1.5 million Israelis spoke Russian as of 2017. The Israeli press and websites regularly publish material in Russian and there are Russian newspapers, television stations, schools, and social media outlets based in
3074-659: Is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine , Moldova , the Caucasus , Central Asia , and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Israel . Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. It is the most spoken native language in Europe , the most spoken Slavic language , as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia . It is the world's seventh-most spoken language by number of native speakers , and
3180-518: Is the stressed word in a sentence, for example Ты́ съел печенье? ( Tý syel pechenye? – "Was it you who ate the cookie?") – Ты съе́л печенье? ( Ty syél pechenye? – "Did you eat the cookie?) – Ты съел пече́нье? ( Ty syel pechénye? "Was it the cookie you ate?"). Stress marks are mandatory in lexical dictionaries and books for children or Russian learners. The Russian syllable structure can be quite complex, with both initial and final consonant clusters of up to four consecutive sounds. Using
3286-461: The 2011 Lithuanian census , Russian was the native language for 7.2% of the population. In Moldova , Russian was considered to be the language of interethnic communication under a Soviet-era law. On 21 January 2021, the Constitutional Court of Moldova declared the law unconstitutional and deprived Russian of the status of the language of interethnic communication. 50% of the population
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3392-966: The Apollo–Soyuz mission, which first flew in 1975. In March 2013, Russian was found to be the second-most used language on websites after English. Russian was the language of 5.9% of all websites, slightly ahead of German and far behind English (54.7%). Russian was used not only on 89.8% of .ru sites, but also on 88.7% of sites with the former Soviet Union domain .su . Websites in former Soviet Union member states also used high levels of Russian: 79.0% in Ukraine, 86.9% in Belarus, 84.0% in Kazakhstan, 79.6% in Uzbekistan, 75.9% in Kyrgyzstan and 81.8% in Tajikistan. However, Russian
3498-413: The Constitution of Tajikistan and is permitted in official documentation. 28% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 7% used it as the main language with family, friends or at work. The World Factbook notes that Russian is widely used in government and business. In Turkmenistan , Russian lost its status as the official lingua franca in 1996. Among 12% of the population who grew up in
3604-653: The National Football League (NFL) Rudolf Wanderone , American professional billiards player, also known as "Minnesota Fats" Rudolph A. Peterson , American banker who served as the President and CEO of Bank of America and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme Rodolfo Walsh , Argentine writer and journalist of Irish descent, considered the founder of investigative journalism, known for his Open Letter from
3710-575: The Ukrainian language in more than 30 spheres of public life: in particular in public administration , media, education, science, culture, advertising, services . The law does not regulate private communication. A poll conducted in March 2022 by RATING in the territory controlled by Ukraine found that 83% of the respondents believe that Ukrainian should be the only state language of Ukraine. This opinion dominates in all macro-regions, age and language groups. On
3816-694: The United States Census , in 2007 Russian was the primary language spoken in the homes of over 850,000 individuals living in the United States. Russian is one of the official languages (or has similar status and interpretation must be provided into Russian) of the following: The Russian language is also one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station – NASA astronauts who serve alongside Russian cosmonauts usually take Russian language courses. This practice goes back to
3922-508: The 20th century, Russian was a mandatory language taught in the schools of the members of the old Warsaw Pact and in other countries that used to be satellites of the USSR. According to the Eurobarometer 2005 survey, fluency in Russian remains fairly high (20–40%) in some countries, in particular former Warsaw Pact countries. In Armenia , Russian has no official status, but it is recognized as
4028-1364: The American animation team Harman and Ising, known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios and creating the Looney Tunes Rudolf Jugert , German film director Rudolph G. Kopp (1887–1972), Austrian composer Rudolf Platte , German actor Rudolf Prack , Austrian actor Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926), Italian silent film actor Rudolph Walker (born 1939), British actor Rudolf Noelte , German film director, theater director and opera director Rudy Wurlitzer (born 1937), American novelist and screenwriter Rudolf Bernhard (1901–1962), Swiss actor and theater director Rudolf Meinert , Austrian screenwriter, film producer and director Rudolf Hrušínský (1920–1994), Czech actor Rudolf Zehetgruber (1926–2023), Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor Ruedi Walter (1916–1990), Swiss comedian and actor In science and technology [ edit ] Ralph H. Baer (Rudolf Heinrich Baer) (1922–2014), German-American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer Rudolf Rudy Ballieux (1930–2020), Dutch immunologist Rudolph Boysen (1895–1950), American horticulturist, creator of
4134-858: The Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolf Poch , Austrian doctor, anthropologist, and ethnologist Rudolph "Rudy" LaRusso (1927–2004), American basketball player Rudolph Arvid Peterson (1904–2003), former president and CEO of Bank of America Rudolf Zistler , Austro-Hungarian socialist and lawyer Preston Rudolph "Rudy" York , American Major League Baseball player Rudolph Wurlitzer (1831–1914) German American businessman, founder of The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company de:Rudolf Wacker , Austrian painter Rudolf Zwirner (born 1933), German art dealer Rudolf Koch (1876–1934), German type designer Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernández y Farrés , Spanish basketball player Rudolph Gerhardus Snyman , South African rugby union player Fictional [ edit ] Rudolph
4240-592: The Austro-Hungarian 3rd army during the Battle of Galicia Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt , German field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany Rudolf Berthold (1891–1920), German World War I air ace Rudolph Douglas Raiford , American World War II combat officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff , German army officer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943, leader of
4346-809: The Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan , British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff Rodolfo Graziani , prominent Italian military officer in the Kingdom of Italy's Regio Esercito (Royal Army) and the Minister of National Defence of the Italian Social Republic Rudolph B. Davila , United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in
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4452-732: The BBC Rudolf Carl , Austrian actor Rudolf Christians , German actor Rudolf Icsey (1905–1986), Hungarian cinematographer Rodolfo "Rudy" Mancuso , American actor, Internet personality and musician most notable for his comedic videos on YouTube and previously on Vine Rudolf Martin , German actor working mainly in the United States Rudolph Mate , Polish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and film producer Rudolf "Ruud" Kleinpaste , Dutch-New Zealand naturalist and TV host Rudolph Schildkraut , Austrian film and theatre actor Rudolf Ising , member of
4558-465: The Belarusian society the Russian language prevails, so according to the 2019 census 6,718,557 people (71.4% of the total population) stated that they speak Russian at home, for ethnic Belarusians this share is 61.4%, for Russians — 97.2%, for Ukrainians — 89.0%, for Poles — 52.4%, and for Jews — 96.6%; 2,447,764 people (26.0% of the total population) stated that the language they usually speak at home
4664-453: The CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party Rudolph G. Tenerowicz , American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan Rudolf "Rudi" Vis , Dutch-born British politician and Member of Parliament Middle name [ edit ] Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr. , president of Walgreens and the chairman of the board Gerald Rudolph Ford , American politician who served as the 38th president of
4770-659: The Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II who set up a process to produce soap made from human corpses Rudolf Rahn , Nazi German politician and Plenipotentiary to the Italian Social Republic Multi-fields [ edit ] Rudolf Steiner , Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist Literature [ edit ] Rudolf G. Binding , German writer and supporter of Hitler Rūdolfs Blaumanis , Latvian writer, journalist and playwright, considered one of
4876-601: The District of Columbia Rudolph "Rudy" J. Castellani Jr. , American professor of pathology and Director of Neuropathology at the University of Maryland Rudolf Dassler , German Businessman known for German Sportswear Company Puma Rudolph B. Davila , United States army officer Rudolf Hrubý (1954-2023), Slovak businessman Rudolph Weaver , American architect, university professor and administrator Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer , German football manager and player Rudolf Abel,
4982-615: The European theatre during World War II Rudolph Bierwirth , General officer in the Australian Army Rudolf Anderson (1927–1962), U.S. Air Force pilot and first recipient of the Air Force Cross Rudolf von Bünau , German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II and one of the chief commanders of Vienna Offensive Rudolf von Brudermann , general of Austria-Hungary during the First World War who led
5088-519: The Great and developed from the Moscow ( Middle or Central Russian ) dialect substratum under the influence of some of the previous century's Russian chancery language. Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution , the spoken form of the Russian language was that of the nobility and the urban bourgeoisie. Russian peasants, the great majority of the population, continued to speak in their own dialects. However,
5194-620: The House of Habsburg-Lorraine Royalty and nobility [ edit ] Rudolph I (disambiguation) Rudolph II (disambiguation) Rudolph III (disambiguation) Rudolph of France (died 936) Rudolph I of Germany (1218–1291) Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612) Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576–1621) Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858–1889), son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (died at Mayerling) Places [ edit ] Rudolph Glacier , Antarctica Rudolph, South Dakota , US Rudolph, Wisconsin , US,
5300-481: The House of Habsburg-Lorraine Rudolf Baláž (1940–2011). Slovak Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banská Bystrica from 1990 until his death in 2011 Rudolph Grossman (1867–1927), Austrian-American rabbi Wartime figures and military leaders [ edit ] Rudolf Freiherr Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten , Colonel-General in the Austro-Hungarian army, the last Imperial Minister for War to
5406-578: The Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an optional acute accent ( знак ударения ) may, and sometimes should, be used to mark stress . For example, it is used to distinguish between otherwise identical words, especially when context does not make it obvious: замо́к ( zamók – "lock") – за́мок ( zámok – "castle"), сто́ящий ( stóyashchy – "worthwhile") – стоя́щий ( stoyáshchy – "standing"), чудно́ ( chudnó – "this
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#17328368672965512-928: The Kalman filter Rudolf Jaenisch (born 1942), German biologist, Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Rudolf Ernst Brünnow (1858–1917), German-American orientalist and philologist Rudolph John Anderson (1879–1961), American biochemist Rudolph A. Marcus (born 1923), Canadian Nobel Prize-winning chemist Rudolf Robert Maier (1824–1888), German pathologist Rudolf Simek (born 1954), Austrian Germanist and philologian Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721), German botanist Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German physician and biologist Rudolf Wolf (1816–1893), Swiss astronomer and mathematician Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995), British physicist Rudolf Wagner (1805–1864), German anatomist and physiologist and
5618-515: The Middle East and North Africa – 1.3 million, Sub-Saharan Africa – 0.1 million, Latin America – 0.2 million, U.S., Canada , Australia, and New Zealand – 4.1 million speakers. Therefore, the Russian language is the seventh-largest in the world by the number of speakers , after English, Mandarin, Hindi -Urdu, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Portuguese. Russian is one of the six official languages of
5724-1116: The Netherlands [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudolph_(name)&oldid=1259765697 " Categories : Given names German masculine given names Dutch masculine given names Norwegian masculine given names Swedish masculine given names Danish masculine given names Icelandic masculine given names Czech masculine given names Slovak masculine given names Croatian masculine given names Slovene masculine given names English masculine given names Masculine given names Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Pages with German IPA Articles containing French-language text Articles containing Spanish-language text Articles containing Arabic-language text Articles with short description Short description
5830-401: The Netherlands, Scandinavian region) Other names Derived Hrōþiwulfaz Related names Rudy (Nickname), Rodolfo , Ridolfo, Rolf , Ralph , Raul , Raoul , Rūdolfs See also Robert , Roland , Roger , Rose , Roderick , Rodney , Raymond Rudolph or Rudolf ( French : Rodolphe or Raoul , Italian , Portuguese and Spanish : Rodolfo ) or Rodolphe
5936-539: The Red-Nosed Reindeer , fictional character created by Robert L. May in 1939 Rudolf, a character from 2016 animated film Rudolf the Black Cat Rudolf, Emperor of Rigel in the game Fire Emblem Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson, a character from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island Rudolph "Rudy" Holiday, a character in the 2018 role-playing video game Deltarune Rudolph "Regular Sized Rudy" Stieblitz,
6042-620: The Revolution of 1848 Rudolph "Rudy" Boschwitz , American politician and former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota Rudolf "Rudy" Andeweg , Dutch political scientist Rudolph Blankenburg , businessman and manufacturer, who became a politician and elected mayor of Philadelphia Rudolf Buttmann , German politician and diplomat Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani (born 1944), American lawyer, businessman, former politician, and public speaker, Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001 Rudolf Gnägi , Swiss politician and member of
6148-499: The Rhine (1306–1353) Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (1320–1346) Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (1339–1365) Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612) Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858–1889), son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (died at Mayerling) Religious figures [ edit ] Rudolf of Fulda , 9th-century monk, writer and theologian Rudolf von Habsburg-Lothringen (1788–1831), Archbishop of Olomouc and member of
6254-807: The Russian alphabet include ⟨ ѣ ⟩ , which merged to ⟨ е ⟩ ( /je/ or /ʲe/ ); ⟨ і ⟩ and ⟨ ѵ ⟩ , which both merged to ⟨ и ⟩ ( /i/ ); ⟨ ѳ ⟩ , which merged to ⟨ ф ⟩ ( /f/ ); ⟨ ѫ ⟩ , which merged to ⟨ у ⟩ ( /u/ ); ⟨ ѭ ⟩ , which merged to ⟨ ю ⟩ ( /ju/ or /ʲu/ ); and ⟨ ѧ ⟩ and ⟨ ѩ ⟩ , which later were graphically reshaped into ⟨ я ⟩ and merged phonetically to /ja/ or /ʲa/ . While these older letters have been abandoned at one time or another, they may be used in this and related articles. The yers ⟨ ъ ⟩ and ⟨ ь ⟩ originally indicated
6360-458: The Russian principalities before and especially during Mongol rule. This strengthened dialectal differences, and for a while, prevented the emergence of a standardized national language. The formation of the unified and centralized Russian state in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the gradual re-emergence of a common political, economic, and cultural space created the need for a common standard language. The initial impulse for standardization came from
6466-405: The Soviet era can speak Russian, other generations of citizens that do not have any knowledge of Russian. Primary and secondary education by Russian is almost non-existent. In Uzbekistan , Russian is the language of inter-ethnic communication. It has some official roles, being permitted in official documentation and is the lingua franca of the country and the language of the elite. Russian
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#17328368672966572-466: The St. Louis area, including "The Immigrants", "The Union Soldier," and "Martin Luther King" Rudolf "Rudi" Skácel , Czech footballer Rudolf Steiner , Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolph Fisher , African-American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator Rudolph "Rudy" Johnson , former American football player who played for San Francisco 49ers and Atlanta Falcons of
6678-581: The Swiss Federal Council Rudolf E. A. Havenstein , German lawyer and president of the Reichsbank (German central bank) during the hyperinflation of 1921–1923 Rudolph K. Hynicka , American politician who led the Republican party in Cincinnati, Ohio Rudolf Katz , German politician and judge Rudolph King , American politician who served as member of Massachusetts House of Representatives Rudolf Kirchschläger , Austrian diplomat, politician and judge, eighth President of Austria Rudolf Kjellén , Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined
6784-403: The United Nations. Education in Russian is still a popular choice for both Russian as a second language (RSL) and native speakers in Russia, and in many former Soviet republics. Russian is still seen as an important language for children to learn in most of the former Soviet republics. In Belarus , Russian is a second state language alongside Belarusian per the Constitution of Belarus . 77% of
6890-428: The United States Dancers [ edit ] Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Austrian choreographer Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), Soviet-born dancer Other [ edit ] Rodolph Austin , Jamaican professional footballer Rudolf Bahro , dissident from East Germany Rudolf Caracciola , German racing driver Rudolph Contreras , United States District Judge of the United States District Court for
6996-596: The United States Kevin Rudolf (born 1983), American musician, singer-songwriter and music producer Other [ edit ] Albert Rudolph , birth name of Swami Rudrananda, American entrepreneur and spiritual teacher Eric Rudolph (born 1966), American serial murderer and terrorist Julia Ann Rudolph (c. 1820–c. 1890), American photographer Paul Rudolph (architect) (1918–1997), American architect Vernon Rudolph (1915–1973), American businessman, founder of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc v t e Family names derived from
7102-552: The United States Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, and Romania Rudolf Smend , German theologian Rudolph A. Marcus , Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems Rudolf Robert Maier , German pathologist Rudolph "Bingo" Kampman , Canadian ice hockey defenceman in the NHL Rudolf Baumbach , German poet Rudolph A. Herold , American architect Rudolf "Rudi" Hess , American fine art painter, sculptor and art critic, who
7208-411: The V-2 and the Saturn V Emanuel David Rudolph (1927–1992), American botanist, lichenologist, and historian of botany In music [ edit ] Anna Lemmer Badenhorst Rudolph (1924-1995), South African composer and author Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (1730–1812), French horn player, violinist and composer. Max Rudolf (conductor) (1902–1995), German conductor who spent most of his career in
7314-485: The Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II Rodolfo P. Hernández , United States Army soldier Rudolf Perešin , Croatian fighter pilot serving in the Yugoslav Air Force (JRZ) during Croatian War of Independence Rudolf Toussaint , German army officer, one of the principal commanders of Prague uprising Rudolf Meister , German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II Rudolf Maister (1874–1934) Slovene military officer, poet and political activist, one of
7420-540: The alias of Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (1903–1971), a Russian spy Rudolf Amelunxen , German politician of the Zentrum and the 1st Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia Rudolf Minkowski , American astronomer Rudolf Dreikurs , Austrian psychiatrist and educator Rudolf "Rudi" Dutschke , spokesperson of the 1960s German student movement Rudolf "Rudi" Fischer , Swiss racing driver Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales , Mexican American boxer, poet, and political activist Rudolph Walton, American merchant after whom
7526-603: The boysenberry Rudolf Clausius , German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German inventor of the diesel engine Rudolf Erren (1899-unk.), German hydrogen-engine pioneer Rudolf Hauschka (1891–1969), Austrian chemist, author, inventor, entrepreneur and anthroposophist Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898), German zoologist Rudolf Fleischmann (1903–2002), German experimental nuclear physicist Rudolf Kochendörffer (1911–1980), German mathematician Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016), Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor of
7632-403: The broader sense of expanding the use of Russian alongside or in favour of other languages. The current standard form of Russian is generally regarded as the modern Russian literary language ( современный русский литературный язык – "sovremenny russky literaturny yazyk"). It arose at the beginning of the 18th century with the modernization reforms of the Russian state under the rule of Peter
7738-562: The country. There is an Israeli TV channel mainly broadcasting in Russian with Israel Plus . See also Russian language in Israel . Russian is also spoken as a second language by a small number of people in Afghanistan . In Vietnam , Russian has been added in the elementary curriculum along with Chinese and Japanese and were named as "first foreign languages" for Vietnamese students to learn, on equal footing with English. The Russian language
7844-612: The discoverer of the germinal vesicle Musicians [ edit ] Rudolf Friml (1879–1972), American composer and pianist Rudolf Baumgartner , Swiss conductor and violinist Rudolf Bing (1902–1997), Austrian-American opera impresario fr:Rodolphe Burger , French composer Rudolf Friml (1879–1972), composer of operettas, musicals songs and piano pieces, and a pianist Rudolph Ganz , Swiss-born American pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator Rodolfo "Fito" Páez (born 1963), Argentine singer-songwriter Rudolph Isley (1939–2023), American singer-songwriter and
7950-413: The factory and the industrial plant their local peasant dialects with their phonetics, grammar, and vocabulary, and the very process of recruiting workers from peasants and the mobility of the worker population generate another process: the liquidation of peasant inheritance by way of leveling the particulars of local dialects. On the ruins of peasant multilingual, in the context of developing heavy industry,
8056-451: The final reading amendments that state that all schools and kindergartens in the country are to transition to education in Latvian . From 2025, all children will be taught in Latvian only. On 28 September 2023, Latvian deputies approved The National Security Concept, according to which from 1 January 2026, all content created by Latvian public media (including LSM ) should be only in Latvian or
8162-672: The generation of immigrants who started arriving in the early 1960s). Only about 25% of them are ethnic Russians, however. Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the overwhelming majority of Russophones in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in New York City were Russian-speaking Jews. Afterward, the influx from the countries of the former Soviet Union changed the statistics somewhat, with ethnic Russians and Ukrainians immigrating along with some more Russian Jews and Central Asians. According to
8268-480: The government bureaucracy for the lack of a reliable tool of communication in administrative, legal, and judicial affairs became an obvious practical problem. The earliest attempts at standardizing Russian were made based on the so-called Moscow official or chancery language, during the 15th to 17th centuries. Since then, the trend of language policy in Russia has been standardization in both the restricted sense of reducing dialectical barriers between ethnic Russians, and
8374-688: The greatest writers in Latvian history and particularly a master of realism Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846–1926), German philosopher Rudolf Fischer , German writer Rudolf Löwenstein , German writer Rudolf Arapović (1937–2007), Croatian Writer and Dissident Movie industry [ edit ] Rudolph Anders , American actor Rudolph Sternad , American art director and production designer Rudolf Buitendach , South African born film director and editor Rudolph Cartier , Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for
8480-461: The leaders of Beer Hall Putsch, best known for his solo flight to Scotland Rudolf Höss (1900–1947), German Nazi first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolf Lange , Nazi German SS officer and one of the major perpetrators of the Holocaust, commander of Salaspils concentration camp, one of the leading perpetrators of Jelgava massacre and Rumbula massacre Rudolf Spanner , Director of
8586-596: The leading perpetrators of Marburg's Bloody Sunday, one of the principal commanders of Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia Nazis [ edit ] Rudolf Diels , German Nazi SS official and Director of German secret police Gestapo from 1933 to 1934 Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), German Nazi SS officer and leader of the Jewish skull collection project Rudolf Hess (1894–1987), Deputy Führer in Nazi Germany, one of
8692-411: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudolph&oldid=1167894924 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Russian language Russian
8798-516: The northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region . Russian was also the main foreign language taught in school in China between 1949 and 1964. In Kazakhstan , Russian is not a state language, but according to article 7 of the Constitution of Kazakhstan its usage enjoys equal status to that of the Kazakh language in state and local administration. The 2009 census reported that 10,309,500 people, or 84.8% of
8904-515: The other hand, before the war, almost a quarter of Ukrainians were in favour of granting Russian the status of the state language, while after the beginning of Russia's invasion the support for the idea dropped to just 7%. In peacetime, the idea of raising the status of Russian was traditionally supported by residents of the south and east . But even in these regions, only a third of the respondents were in favour, and after Russia's full-scale invasion , their number dropped by almost half. According to
9010-455: The other three languages in the East Slavic branch. In many places in eastern and southern Ukraine and throughout Belarus, these languages are spoken interchangeably, and in certain areas traditional bilingualism resulted in language mixtures such as Surzhyk in eastern Ukraine and Trasianka in Belarus. An East Slavic Old Novgorod dialect , although it vanished during the 15th or 16th century,
9116-446: The parliament approved a bill to close up all Russian language schools and kindergartens by the school year. The transition to only Estonian language schools and kindergartens will start in the 2024-2025 school year. In Latvia , Russian is officially considered a foreign language. 55% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 26% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. On 18 February 2012, Latvia held
9222-453: The peasants' speech was never systematically studied, as it was generally regarded by philologists as simply a source of folklore and an object of curiosity. This was acknowledged by the noted Russian dialectologist Nikolai Karinsky , who toward the end of his life wrote: "Scholars of Russian dialects mostly studied phonetics and morphology. Some scholars and collectors compiled local dictionaries. We have almost no studies of lexical material or
9328-455: The population aged 15 and above, could read and write well in Russian, and understand the spoken language. In October 2023, Kazakhstan drafted a media law aimed at increasing the use of the Kazakh language over Russian, the law stipulates that the share of the state language on television and radio should increase from 50% to 70%, at a rate of 5% per year, starting in 2025. In Kyrgyzstan , Russian
9434-418: The population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 67% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. According to the 2019 Belarusian census , out of 9,413,446 inhabitants of the country, 5,094,928 (54.1% of the total population) named Belarusian as their native language, with 61.2% of ethnic Belarusians and 54.5% of ethnic Poles declaring Belarusian as their native language. In everyday life in
9540-475: The pronunciation of ultra-short or reduced /ŭ/ , /ĭ/ . Because of many technical restrictions in computing and also because of the unavailability of Cyrillic keyboards abroad, Russian is often transliterated using the Latin alphabet. For example, мороз ('frost') is transliterated moroz , and мышь ('mouse'), mysh or myš' . Once commonly used by the majority of those living outside Russia, transliteration
9646-466: The proper pronunciation of uncommon words or names. Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family . It is a descendant of Old East Slavic , a language used in Kievan Rus' , which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid-13th centuries. From the point of view of spoken language , its closest relatives are Ukrainian , Belarusian , and Rusyn ,
9752-491: The respondents), while according to the 2002 census – 142.6 million people (99.2% of the respondents). In Ukraine , Russian is a significant minority language. According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 14,400,000 native speakers of Russian in the country, and 29 million active speakers. 65% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 38% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. On 5 September 2017, Ukraine's Parliament passed
9858-675: The survey carried out by RATING in August 2023 in the territory controlled by Ukraine and among the refugees, almost 60% of the polled usually speak Ukrainian at home, about 30% – Ukrainian and Russian, only 9% – Russian. Since March 2022, the use of Russian in everyday life has been noticeably decreasing. For 82% of respondents, Ukrainian is their mother tongue, and for 16%, Russian is their mother tongue. IDPs and refugees living abroad are more likely to use both languages for communication or speak Russian. Nevertheless, more than 70% of IDPs and refugees consider Ukrainian to be their native language. In
9964-508: The syntax of Russian dialects." After 1917, Marxist linguists had no interest in the multiplicity of peasant dialects and regarded their language as a relic of the rapidly disappearing past that was not worthy of scholarly attention. Nakhimovsky quotes the Soviet academicians A.M Ivanov and L.P Yakubinsky, writing in 1930: The language of peasants has a motley diversity inherited from feudalism. On its way to becoming proletariat peasantry brings to
10070-528: The term "geopolitics" Rudolf Krohne (1876–1953), German jurist and politician Rudolf Minger , Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council Rudolph "Rudy" Perpich , former governor of Minnesota Rudolph Jay Schaefer I , president of F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company Rudolf Scharping , German politician (SPD) and sports official who served as 12th Minister of Defence of Germany Rudolf Seiters , German politician of
10176-770: The two. Others divide the language into three groupings, Northern , Central (or Middle), and Southern , with Moscow lying in the Central region. The Northern Russian dialects and those spoken along the Volga River typically pronounce unstressed /o/ clearly, a phenomenon called okanye ( оканье ). Besides the absence of vowel reduction, some dialects have high or diphthongal /e⁓i̯ɛ/ in place of Proto-Slavic * ě and /o⁓u̯ɔ/ in stressed closed syllables (as in Ukrainian) instead of Standard Russian /e/ and /o/ , respectively. Another Northern dialectal morphological feature
10282-668: The unit, soldiers of which discovered the mass graves of the Soviet-perpetrated Katyn massacre Rudolf Schmundt , German officer in the Wehrmacht and adjutant to Adolf Hitler during World War II, later tried to unsuccessfully assassinate Hitler Rudolf Viest , Slovak military leader, commander of the 1st Czechoslovak army during the Slovak National Uprising Rudolf Frank , German Luftwaffe military aviator and night fighter ace during World War II Rudolf von Eschwege , German World War I flying ace who
10388-506: The use of the language has some presence in certain areas. A large part of the population, especially the older generations, can speak Russian as a foreign language. However, English has replaced Russian as lingua franca in Lithuania and around 80% of young people speak English as their first foreign language. In contrast to the other two Baltic states, Lithuania has a relatively small Russian-speaking minority (5.0% as of 2008). According to
10494-1992: The word " wolf " Celtic Ó Faoláin , Phelan , Whalan , Whalen , Whelan , Felan , Folan , Mac Conallaidh , McNally [REDACTED] Germanic Rudolph , Ralph , Ludolf , Adolf North Germanic: Lyall , Ulfsson West Germanic: De Wolf , De Wolfe , Love , Volf , Wolf , Wolfe , Wolff , Wölfli , Wölfflin , Wolfs , Woolf , Woolfe , Wulf , Wulff , Wulfson , Wolfowitz , Wolfsohn , Wolfson , Wolfram , Wolfermann Romance Latin: Lupus French: Leleu , Leloup , Loup , Louvel , Lowell Iberian: Llop , Llopis , Lobato , Lobo , Lopes , López Italian: Lovato , Lupo Romanian: Lupescu , Lupu , Lupul , Lupulescu Slavic East Slavic: Biryuk , Biryukov , Volchek , Volchenkov , Volchkov , Volchok , Volk , Volkov ( Volkoff , Wolkoff ), Volkovich , Vovchenko , Vovchok , Vovchynskyi , Vovk South Slavic: Vučević , Vučić , Vučko , Vučetić / Vuchetich , Vučković , Vujić , Vukašinović , Vukasović , Vukčević , Vukić , Vukičević , Vukićević , Vuković / Vukovich , Vuksanović West Slavic: Vlček , Vlk , Wilczek , Wilczyński , Wilk , Wolkowicz Other Baltic: Vilkas , Vilks , Vilčinskas , Vilkelis Basque: Ochoa , Otxoa Estonian: Hunt Finnish: Susi Greek: Lykoudis Hebrew: Ze'evi , Ze'ev , Ben-Zeev Hungarian: Farkas ( Farkaš in Slavic languages) Turkish: Kurt , Kurtoğlu See also [ edit ] Rudy , nickname for Rudolph Ralph , nickname for Rudolph Raul / Raoul Rolf Rodolfo Roderick Roger Roland Robert Ludolf Ludolph References [ edit ] ^ "Is Rudolph A Girl Or A Boy?" . www.onsecrethunt.com . 31 May 2022 . Retrieved 6 August 2023 . External links [ edit ] Statistics for name Rudolf in
10600-739: The world's ninth-most spoken language by total number of speakers . Russian is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station , one of the six official languages of the United Nations , as well as the fourth most widely used language on the Internet . Russian is written using the Russian alphabet of the Cyrillic script ; it distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without—the so-called "soft" and "hard" sounds. Almost every consonant has
10706-1454: Was based in Northern California Rudolph Loewenstein , Polish-born American psychoanalyst Rudolf Horn , Austrian biathlete and cross-country skier Rudolf Plyukfelder , Ukrainian weightlifter Rudolph Hass , American developer of the Hass avocado, the source of 95% of California avocados grown commercially today Rudolf Fischer , Romanian historian Rudolf Rocker , German anarchist writer and activist Rudolf Dassler (1898–1974), German businessman Rodolphe Saadé (born 1970), French billionaire businessman Rudolf Schindler , German physician and gastroenterologist Rudolph Schindler , American architect Rudolph Moshammer , German fashion designer Rudolf Molleker , German tennis player Roudolphe Douala , Cameroonian retired footballer Rudolf Wittkower , American art historian Rudolph Koenig , German physicist Rudolf Geiger , German meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Tombo Jr. (1875–1914), American philologist Rudolf Ziegler , German rowing coxswain Rudolph Nickolsburger , Hungarian footballer Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich , American fashion designer Rudolf Holzapfel , Polish-born Austrian psychologist and philosopher Rudolph Fentz , focal character of "I'm Scared",
10812-405: Was first introduced in North America when Russian explorers voyaged into Alaska and claimed it for Russia during the 18th century. Although most Russian colonists left after the United States bought the land in 1867, a handful stayed and preserved the Russian language in this region to this day, although only a few elderly speakers of this unique dialect are left. In Nikolaevsk, Alaska , Russian
10918-421: Was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 19% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. According to the 2014 Moldovan census , Russians accounted for 4.1% of Moldova's population, 9.4% of the population declared Russian as their native language, and 14.5% said they usually spoke Russian. According to the 2010 census in Russia , Russian language skills were indicated by 138 million people (99.4% of
11024-688: Was named Rudolph Walton School in Philadelphia Rudolph A. Peterson , American banker who served as the President and CEO of Bank of America and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme Rudolph A. Seiden , American chemist and a Zionist activist Rudolph Ackermann , Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman Rodolphe Adada , Congolese politician and diplomat Rodolfo Acquaviva , Italian Jesuit missionary to India Rudolph Aggrey , American diplomat who served as
11130-975: Was the German Empire's only fighter pilot operating on the Macedonian Front Rudolf Veiel , German Panzer general during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Greece Rudolf Sieckenius , German Generalmajor during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Berlin Rudolf von Slatin , Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in Sudan Rudolf Jordan , Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt Hans-Rudolf Rösing , German U-boat commander in World War II Rudolph Hiemstra , South African Air Force commander Rudolf Schmidt , general in
11236-402: Was the sixth-most used language on the top 1,000 sites, behind English, Chinese, French, German, and Japanese. Despite leveling after 1900, especially in matters of vocabulary and phonetics, a number of dialects still exist in Russia. Some linguists divide the dialects of Russian into two primary regional groupings, "Northern" and "Southern", with Moscow lying on the zone of transition between
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