Rudel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916–1982), highly decorated German pilot during World War II and post-war neo-Nazi activist Jaufre Rudel, Prince of Blaye and a troubadour Julius Rudel (1921–2014), Austrian-born American opera and orchestra conductor Wulgrin II of Angoulême, called Rudel, possibly the father or father-in-law of Jaufre Rudel
