Tudor (name)
The surname Tudor, within the United Kingdom, originates from the Welsh forename Tewdwr, Tewdr or Tudur (the Welsh equivalent of Theodoric or Theodore).
Tudor is also a common first name in Romanian, also equivalent to "Theodor". Tudor can also be a surname in Romania.
The English royal dynasty, the House of Tudor, including prominent members:
- Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tewdwr), lover or possibly second husband of Catherine of Valois, and grandfather of King Henry VII
- Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, father of King Henry VII
- Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, uncle of King Henry VII
- Arthur Tudor eldest son of King Henry VII (predeceased his father)
- Margaret Tudor, Queen Consort of Scotland, eldest daughter of King Henry VII
- Mary Tudor, Queen of France, latterly Mary Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, second daughter of King Henry VII
- Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, 3rd son of King Henry VII
Tudor as a surname may also refer to:
- Alex Tudor, an English cricketer
- Antony Tudor, a British choreographer
- Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a Romanian politician
- David Tudor, an American pianist
- Edward Tudor-Pole, a British singer
- Frank Tudor, an Australian politician
- Frederic Tudor, an American entrepreneur and Boston's Ice King
- Henri Tudor, a Luxembourgian industrialist and inventor
- Henry Hugh Tudor, a British soldier, later police chief in Ireland and then Palestine
- Igor Tudor, a Croatian football (soccer) player
- Joel Tudor, an American longboard surfer
- John Tudor (footballer), an English football (soccer) player
- John Tudor (baseball), an American baseball player
- Lukas Tudor (b. 1969), a Chilean football (soccer) player
- Shane Tudor (b. 1982), an English football (soccer) player
- Tasha Tudor (1915-2008), an American illustrator and author of children's books
- William Tudor (1750-1819), an Attorney-at-Law who served as Representative of Boston in the Massachusetts General Court, State Senator, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and was a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society
- William Tudor (1779-1830), a leading literary figure in Boston and cofounder of the North American Review and the Boston Athenaeum
As a given name:
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