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
- Fanny Raoul (1771-1833), French feminist writer, journalist, philosopher and essayist; younger sister of Jean-Marie Raoul
- Jean-Marie Raoul (1766–1837), French lawyer, musician
- 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
- All pages with titles containing Raoul
- 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
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