Ingo
Ingo is a masculine given name in contemporary Scandinavia and Germany, and a historical name in France. It is a Latinized form of the given name Inge. It is the male version of the name Inga, used in the same region.
It means "protected by Yngvi", who is the main god for the Ingvaeones, and is probably a different name for the Germanic god Freyr.
Persons with the name Ingo
- Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer, nicknamed "Ingo"
- Ingo Anderbrügge, German footballer
- Ingo Appelt, German former bobsledder
- Ingo Appelt, German comedian
- Ingo Brigandt, Canadian philosopher
- Ingo Bodtke, German politician
- Ingo Buding, German tennis player
- Ingo Freyer, German professional basketball coach and former national team player
- Ingo Gerhartz, German Air Force general
- Ingo Giezendanner, Swiss artist
- Ingo Günther, German artist
- Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian former race car driver
- Ingo Maurer, German industrial designer
- Ingo Metzmacher, German music conductor
- Ingo Molnár, Hungarian computer programmer
- Ingo Mörth, Austrian sociologist
- Ingo Nugel, German composer of video game music
- Ingo Preminger, American movie producer, brother of director Otto Preminger
- Ingo Rademacher, German-born Australian actor
- Ingo Rechenberg, German researcher and professor currently in the field of bionics
- Ingo Renner, Australian glider pilot, four-time world champion
- Ingo Schmitt, German politician
- Ingo Schulze, German author
- Ingo Schwichtenberg, German rock drummer
- Ingo Simon, British singer and archer
- Ingo Steinhöfel, German former weightlifter
- Ingo Steuer, German figure skater and coach
- Ingo Swann, American psychic
- Ingo Titze, American vocal scientist
- Ingo Wegener, German computer scientist
- Ingo Wellenreuther, German politician
- Ingo Zamperoni, German news presenter
Fictional characters
- Ingo, an associate of Characters in The [Legend of Zelda series|Talon] in The Legend of Zelda series
- Ingo, a Subway Boss from Pokémon
- Ingo Manfred, a main character in the Broken Sky trilogy by L. A. Weatherly.
Literature
- Ingo (novel), a 2005 children's novel by Helen Dunmore