Dudley (given name)

Dudley is a male given name that means "Dudda's clearing".

Dudley

Pronunciation	/ˈdʌdli/ DUD-lee
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	Old English
Word/name	From a surname that was originally from a place name.
Derivation	Old English: Duddan + Leah
Meaning	"Dudda's clearing"
Region of origin	England
Other names
Short form(s)	Dud
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People

• Dudley Benjafield (1887–1957), British doctor and racing driver
• Dudley Bradley (born 1957), American basketball player
• Dudley Bradstreet (1711–1763), Irish adventurer and secret agent
• Dudley Bradstreet (magistrate) (1648–1702), American magistrate
• Dudley B. Bridgforth Jr. (born 1940), American politician
• Dudley Buck (1839–1909), American composer
• Dudley Carleton (disambiguation), several people
• Dudley Chase (1771–1846), American senator from Vermont
• Dudley Clarke (1899–1974), British army officer
• Dudley Connell (born 1956), American bluegrass singer
• Dudley de Chair (1864–1958), Canadian naval officer and governor of New South Wales
• Dudley DeGroot (1899–1970), American footballer and coach
• Dudley de Silva (1911–1974), Sri Lankan Sinhala educationist
• Dudley Digges (c. 1583–1639), English diplomat and politician
• Dudley Digges (actor) (1879–1947), Irish stage and film actor
• Dudley Doolittle (1881–1957), American politician
• Dudley Evans (1886–1972), English cricketer
• Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671), Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist also known as Dudly Ferbisie
• J. Dudley Goodlette (born 1948), American politician and lawyer
• Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair 1883–1972), British peer, soldier and industrialist
• Dudley Hart (born 1968), American professional golfer
• Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932), American chemist, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Dudley Hooper (1911–1968), British accountant and early promoter of electronic data processing
• Dudley Mays Hughes (1848–1927), American politician from Georgia
• Darach Ó Catháin (1922-1987), Irish sean-nós singer, also known as Dudley Kane
• Dudley Knowles, Scottish political philosopher and professor
• Dudley Wright Knox (1877-1960), US naval officer and historian
• Dudley J. LeBlanc, American politician and Louisiana state senator
• Dudley Le Souef (1856–1923), Australian ornithologist
• Dudley Moore (1935–2002), English actor and comedian
• Dudley Murphy (1897–1968), American film director
• Dudley Nichols (1895–1960), American screenwriter
• Dudley Nourse (1910–1981), South African cricketer
• Dudley Perkins (disambiguation), several people
• Dudley Pope (1925–1997), British writer of nautical fiction and history
• Dudley Pope (cricketer) (1906–1934), English cricketer
• Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
• Dudley Richards (1932–1961), American figure skater
• Dudley Rippon (1892–1963), English cricketer
• Dudley Roberts (born 1945), English footballer
• Dudley Ryder (disambiguation)
• Dudley Senanayake (1911–1973), 2nd, 6th and 8th Prime Minister of Ceylon
• Dudley Spade (born 1956), American politician
• Dudley Stamp (1898–1966), British geographer
• Dudley Storey (1939–2017), New Zealand Olympic rower
• Dudley Tyler (born 1944), English footballer
• Dudley Wanaguru (1924–2002), Sri Lankan Sinhala cinema actor
• Dudley D. Watkins (1907–1969), English cartoonist and creator of Oor Wullie

Fictional characters

• Dudley, an angel in the film The Bishop's Wife played by Cary Grant
• Dudley, a British boxer from the Street Fighter video game series
• Dudley Bristol, protagonist of the television series Dudley , played by Dudley Moore
• Dudley "Booger" Dawson, in the Revenge of the Nerds franchise
• Dudley Dursley, in the Harry Potter books and films
• Dudley Mafee, in the television series Billions
• Dudley Do Nothing, in Shorty McShorts' Shorts
• Dudley Do-Right, an animated Canadian Mountie
• Dudley Liam Smith, an L.A. Confidential villain
• Dudley Puppy, one of the main protagonists of Nickelodeon's T.U.F.F. Puppy
• Dudley Ramsey, in the television series Diff'rent Strokes

See also

• Dudley (disambiguation)
• Dudley (surname)

References

1. Campbell, Mike. "Dudley". behindthename.com. Behind the Name. Retrieved 2 April 2025.