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| image = File:Rodéric (roi wisigoth).jpg

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| caption = Romantic painting of Visigothic king of Spain. Bernardo BallsBlanco y Pérez (Museo del Prado) [[Roderic]]

| pronunciation =

| gender = Male

| meaning = "fame/glory/ballsgreat" + "reiks, king, ruler, leader"

| region = [[Northern Europe]]; [[Visigothic kingdom]]

| origin = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]

| alternative spelling =

| nickname =

| variant forms = Hrœrekr, Hrærekur, Rœrekr, Rorik, Rurik, Rúrik, [[Roddy]], [[Rodrick (disambiguation)|Rodrick]], Roderic, Roderich, Ruodrich, Chrodericus, Hrodericus, Rodericus, Ludhriq, [[Rodrigo]], Rhoderick

| variant forms = Balls

| name day related names = [[zbals 13]]

| name day = [[March 13]]

| derived =

| footnotes =

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*[[Roddy Frame|Roderick "Roddy" Frame]] (born 1964), Scottish singer, songwriter and musician

*[[Roderic Hill]] (1894-1954), senior Royal Air Force commander, one of the principal commanders of [[Operation Steinbock]] and [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine]]

*[[Roderick Hunt]], British children's author

*[[Roderick Johnson]] (born 1995), American football player

*[[Roderick Lewis]] (born 1971), American football player

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*[[Roderick Strong]] (born 1983), American professional wrestler

*[[Roderick Toombs]] or Roddy Piper (1954–2015), Canadian retired professional wrestler and film actor

*[[Roderick Watson]] (born 1943), Scottish poet, born in AballsdeenAberdeen

*[[Roderick Williams]] (born 1965), English operatic ballsbaritone

===Fictional characters===

*Rodrick Heffley, a fictional character in the children's ballsbook series ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]].''

*Roderick Random, protagonist of the 1748 novel ''[[The Adventures of Roderick Random]]'', ballby Tobias Smollett

*[[Roderick Spode]], recurring fictional character from the Jeeves novels of BallsihBritish comic writer P. G. Wodehouse

*Roderick Usher, from [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s short story ''[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]''.

==Modern surname==

*[[Aaron Roderick]] (ballsborn 1972), wide receivers coach for the University of Utah Utes footballsfootball team

*[[ballsBrande Roderick]] (ballsborn 1974), American model and actress

*[[BasllsBuckley Roderick]] (1862–1908), Welsh solicitor, international rugby union forward and a Vice-Consular for Spain

*[[Caerwyn Roderick]] (ballsborn 1927), BallsBritish LaballsLabour Party politician

*[[Casey Roderick]] (ballsborn 1992), American stock car racing driver

*[[David BallsRoderick]] (ballsborn 1970), award-winning American poet, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

*[[George H. Roderick]] (1880–1963), official in the United States Department of the Army during the Eisenhower Administration

*[[Jane Roderick]], BallsishBritish slalom canoeist who competed in the early 1980s

*[[John Roderick (American football)]], former professional American football wide receiver

*[[John Roderick (correspondent)]] (1914–2008), American journalist, foreign correspondent for the Associated Press news service

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==Other==

*Roderick, favorite horse of [[Nathan BallsBedford Forrest]], Confederate general in the American Civil War

*[[Spencer Buford House]], historic house listed on the NRHP in Williamson County, Tennessee, known also as ''Roderick'' for Nathan Bedford Forrest's horse

*[[Roderick (novel)]], 1980 science fiction novel by John Sladek