Rupert

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Rupert Given Name
Gender	Male
Region of Origin	Western Europe
Origin	Low German
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Rupert

Rupert is derived from the Latin Rupertus, which is a loan from the Old German Hroberahtus; thus it is a variation of modern English Robert, and can refer to:

[edit] People

• Saint Rupert of Bingen
• Saint Rupert of Salzburg
• Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619–1682), nephew of Charles I of England and Royalist army cavalry commander during the English Civil War

Surname

• The Rupert family, a billionaire family from Stellenbosch, South Africa or members of that family:
  • Anton Rupert
  • Johann Rupert, son of Anton Rupert

First name

• Rupert Le Poer Trench, Producer VnR Sydney
• Rupert Boneham, Survivor (TV series) cast-away
• Rupert Brooke, an English poet
• Rupert Everett, an English actor
• Rupert Graves, a British actor
• Rupert Grint, an actor famous for his portrayal of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series
• Rupert Holmes, American and British composer, songwriter and author
• Rupert Jee, an American entrepreneur and television celebrity on Late Night with David Letterman
• Rupert Murdoch, an Australian media proprietor
• Rupert Penry-Jones, an English actor

In fiction

• Rupert Giles, a main character of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• 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 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda
  • Rupert of Hentzau, a novel, the sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda

[edit] Places

• Rupert, Idaho, USA
• Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
• Rupert's Land, Canada, the territory held by the Hudson's Bay Company in British North America
• Rupert House Cree land in Québec
• Rupert River, a river in Québec, Canada
• Rupert Station, a station on the Millennium Line of the Vancouver SkyTrain
• Rupert, Vermont, USA

[edit] Other

• St. Rupert's Cathedral
• Rupert (planet), a fictional planet in the novel Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
• Rupert the teddy bear, Stewie's teddy bear from Family Guy
• Rupert (paradummy), the nickname given to paradummies dropped as decoys by the British (Operation Titanic) during the D-Day of the Invasion of Normandy in 1944