Odo
Odo is a name typically associated with historical figures from the Middle Ages and before. Odo is etymologically related to the names Otho and Otto, and to the French name Odon and modern version Eudes, and to the Italian names Ottone and Udo; all come from the Germanic word ot meaning "possessor of wealth".
Historical
Nobility
- Odo the Great, Duke of Aquitaine
- Odo I, Count of Orléans
- Odo I, Count of Troyes
- Odo II, Count of Troyes
- Odo of France, King of the Franks
- Odo of Toulouse, Count of Toulouse
- Odo of Fézensac, Count of Fézensac
- Odo I, Count of Blois
- Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark
- Odo II, Count of Blois
- Odo II, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark
- Odo, Count of Dammartin
- Odo, Count of Penthièvre, co-Duke of Brittany
- Odo I, Duke of Burgundy
- Odo, Count of Champagne
- Odo II, Duke of Burgundy, Duke of Brittany
- Odo I, Viscount of Porhoët
- Odo II, Viscount of Porhoët
- Odo II of Champlitte
Clerics
- Odo of Glanfeuil, West Frankish abbot and bishop
- Odo of Cluny, Roman Catholic saint
- Odo of Arezzo, composer and theorist
- Odo (or Oda) of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Odo of Bayeux, brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent
- Odo of Cambrai, Benedictine monk and bishop
- Odo of Urgell, saint and bishop of Urgell
- Odo II of Beauvais, bishop of Beauvais
- Odo de St Amand, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
- Odo of Deuil, 12th-century historian and crusader
- Odo of Canterbury, saint and abbot of Battle
- Odo of Novara, Carthusian monk
- Odo of Châteauroux, French cardinal
- Odo of Cheriton, Roman Catholic priest and fabulist
- Pope Martin V, born Odo or Oddone Colonna
- Odo O'Driscoll, bishop of Ross, Ireland
Modern
- Odo Casel, also known as Johannes Casel, German Catholic theologian and monk
- Odo Hirsch, Australian author
- Odo Marquard, German philosopher
- Odo Reuter, Swedo-Finnish zoologist and poet
- Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill, British diplomat
Fictional characters
- Odo (Star Trek), a shapeshifter in the science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine portrayed by René Auberjonois.
- Odo, an obscure background character in Pixar's Win or Lose who loves to drink orange soda and give unsolicited and creepy advice to others. His name is also short for "Orange Drink Oracle."
- Odo Proudfoot, a cousin of Bilbo Baggins from the fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.
- Odo Stevens, an Army officer, journalist, and author from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time novel sequence.
- Odo, founder of an anarchist political movement in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Dispossessed and her short story "The Day Before the Revolution."
- Odo or Ooth, a name allegedly corrupted into Hood in the claim that Robert Fitzooth was Robin Hood.