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Rupert (name)

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Rupert
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameLow German
Meaningfame-bright, glory-bright, shining with glory, godlike-bright
Region of originWestern Europe
Other names
Cognate(s)Robert

Rupert or Ruppert is an English truncation of Latin Rupertus, which derives from Old High German Hruodoperht/Hruodoberht ('p' and 'b' are the voiceless and voiced cognates of the same consonant); which is also the source of the name Robert. Thus, "Rupert" and "Robert" are different modern forms of the same name. The Old High German form of the name evolved from Germanic Hrothi, "fame, glory, renown, honour, godlike"[1] + Berht, "bright"; thus, Rupert and Robert mean "fame bright".

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Surname

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  • The Rupert family, a billionaire family from Stellenbosch, South Africa or members of that family:
  • Bob Rupert (born 1931), former college basketball head coach
  • David Rupert (born 1951), former American FBI/British intelligence agent
  • Franke Rupert (1888–1971), Austrian graphic and engraver
  • G. G. Rupert (1847–1922), American Adventist pastor and writer
  • Jeff Rupert (born 1964), Yamaha performing artist, record producer, saxophonist, professor
  • Joe Rupert (1912–1996), American college football, basketball, and track athlete and coach
  • John Rupert (born 1992), American musician, political activist, and former college basketball player at University of Maine and overseas
  • Michael Rupert (born 1951), American actor, singer, director and composer
  • Nura Rupert, Australian Aboriginal artist from north-west South Australia
  • Robert D. Rupert (born 1964), American philosopher and professor
  • Rona Rupert née Davel (1934–1995), South African author
  • Thierry Rupert (1977–2013), French basketball player
  • Wilhelm Ruppert, German Nazi SS officer and the third commandant of Warsaw concentration camp

Fictional characters

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  • Rupert Baxter, fictional character in the Blandings stories by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Rupert Bear, a cartoon bear created by Mary Tourtel
  • Rupert of Hentzau, the villainous henchman of the king's usurper, Black Michael, in Anthony Hope's novels, The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau
  • Rupert, the squirrel in the 1950 Christmas film The Great Rupert
  • Rupert Giles, watcher on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  • Rupert Campbell-Black, the central character in the Rutshire Chronicles series by Jilly Cooper
  • Rupert Thorne, fictional character, a crime boss and enemy of Batman in the DC Comics universe
  • Rupert T. Waxflatter, the mentor of the future detective Sherlock Holmes, created for the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes
  • Rupert Pupkin, the anti-hero in the 1983 film The King of Comedy
  • Rupert Campion, the son of the gentleman detective Albert Campion in Margery Allingham's eponymous series
  • Rupert, stuffed teddy bear owned by cartoon character Stewie Griffin (Family Guy)
  • Rupert, one of the narrator’s aliases in the 1999 film Fight Club.
  • Rupert, Prince of the West and protagonist of Gimlet Media's The Two Princes
  • Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, from Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore
  • Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, the alien main antagonist of Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise; his real given name was revealed to be "Rupert" in the Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Nosy"

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "HROD - Nordic Names".