The surname Tudor, within the United Kingdom, originates from the Welsh forename Tudur, Old Welsh Tutir, the Welsh equivalent of Gaulish Toutorix and Germanic Theodoric, which was conflated with Tewdwr, Tewdr, the Welsh equivalent of Theodore.
Tudor is also a common first name in Romanian, also equivalent to Theodore. Tudor can also be a surname in Romanian.
The English royal dynasty, the House of Tudor (descended from the Welsh Tudors of Penmynydd), 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, second son of Owen and Catherine and brother of Edmund, 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, third son of King Henry VII
Tudor, as a surname, may also refer to:
Adrian Tudor, a Romanian basketball player
Alex Tudor, an English cricketer
Alexandru Tudor, a Romanian football referee
Antony Tudor, a British choreographer
Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a Romanian politician
Cristian Tudor, a Romanian footballer
David Tudor, an American pianist
Edward Tudor-Pole, a British singer
Frank Tudor, an Australian politician
Frederic Tudor (1783–1864), an American entrepreneur known as 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
Larissa Tudor (d. 1926), a British woman who appeared strikingly similar to Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia but never actually claimed to be the former grand duchess. Many people who knew Larissa strongly suspected that she was the former grand duchess of Russia.
Lukas Tudor (b. 1969), a Chilean football (soccer) player
Sandu Tudor, a Romanian poet and monk
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
Will Tudor (b. 1987), an English actor
As a given name:
Tudor Gunasekara
Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Măinescu
Tudor Tănăsescu
Tudor Vladimirescu
Paul Tudor Jones (born 1954), founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation hedge fund
