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[[File:Rydiger_graf_BWB.png | thumb | right | Coat of Arms Rydiger]]'''Rüdiger''' (English ''Ruediger'', ''Rudiger'', [[Roger]]) is a German given name. The meaning comes from [[Old High German]]: ''hruod'' (fame) and ''ger'' ([[Migration Period spear|spear]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Rudiger |title=Rudiger meaning and name origin |accessdate=9 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vorname.com/name,R%FCdiger.html |title=Rüdiger Vorname Herkunft und Bedeutung des Althochdeutschen Jungennamen Namenstag Namensbedeutung |accessdate=9 November 2011}}</ref> The name became popular because of the character [[Rüdiger von Bechelaren]] from ''[[Nibelung]]''.
== People named Rüdiger ==
* [[Alexy II of Moscow|Aleksei Rüdiger]] (1929–2008), [[Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'|Patriarch Alexy II]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]
* [[Antonio Rüdiger]] (b. 1993), German footballer
* [[Herbert Rudiger]], (born {{c.|1938}}), American radio technician and serial bomber who terrorized the city of [[Porto Alegre]] in [[Brazil]] with explosives in the span of one month
* [[Prince Rüdiger of Saxony]] (1953–2022), German prince
* [[Maria Rüdiger-Belyaeva]], mother of [[John Shalikashvili]]
* [[Rüdiger Abramczik]] (b. 1956), German footballer
* [[Rüdiger Gamm]] (b. 1971), German "mental calculator"
* [[Rüdiger von der Goltz]] (1865–1945), German army general during the First World War, one of the principal commanders of [[Finnish Civil War]], [[Latvian War of Independence]], [[Battle of Cēsis (1919)]] and [[Estonian War of Independence]]
* [[Rüdiger Haas]] (b. 1969), German tennis player
* [[Ruediger Heining|Rüdiger Heining]] (b. 1968), German agrarscientist and economist
* [[Rüdiger Huzmann]] (died 22 February 1090), Bishop of Speyer from 1075 to his death
* [[Rüdiger Nehberg]] (1935–2020), German human rights activist, author and survival expert
* [[Rüdiger Overmans]], (born 1954), German historian specialized in World War II
* [[Rüdiger Safranski]] (b. 1945), German philosopher and author.
* [[Rüdiger Schleicher]] (1895–1945), German resistance fighter
* [[Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg]] (1638–1701), Austrian politician, military general and chief of [[Vienna]], one of the principal commanders of [[Battle of Vienna]]
* [[Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg]] (1899–1956), Austrian nationalist and politician who helped introduce [[Federal State of Austria|austrofascism]] and install a [[Clerical fascism|clerico-fascist]] dictatorship in Austria, chancellor of [[Federal State of Austria]]
* [[Rüdiger Vogler]] (b. 1942), German film actor
==See also==
*[[Rutger]]
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