Udo

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Udo is a masculine given name. It may refer to:

People[edit]

Medieval era[edit]

Modern era[edit]

  • Udo Anneken (1917–1997), German Wehrmacht officer in World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  • Udo Bullmann (born 1956), German politician
  • Udo Cordes (1921–2007), German Luftwaffe officer in World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  • Udo Di Fabio (born 1954), German jurist
  • Udo Dziersk (born 1961), German painter
  • Udo Z. Karzi (born 1970), Indonesian writer
  • Udo Kasemets (1919–2014), Estonian-Canadian composer
  • Udo Keppler (1872–1956), American cartoonist
  • Udo Kier (born 1944), German actor
  • Udo Pastörs (born 1952), German far-right politician
  • Udo Proksch (1934–2001), Austrian businessman, industrialist and murderer
  • Udo Samel (born 1953), German actor
  • Udo Schaefer (1926–2019), German lawyer and Bahá'í author
  • Udo Schnelle (born 1952), German theologian and professor
  • Udo Sellbach (1927–2006), German-Australian visual artist and educator
  • Udo Spreitzenbarth, German photographer
  • Udo Steinke (1942–1999), German writer
  • Udo Uibo (born 1956), Estonian literary critic, editor, translator and lexicographer
  • Udo Voigt (born 1952), German politician and former soldier
  • Udo Walendy (1927–2022), German author, historian, former soldier and Holocaust denier
  • Udo Weilacher (born 1963), German landscape architect, author and professor
  • Udo von Woyrsch (1895–1983), high-ranking Nazi SS officer responsible for numerous murders during the Holocaust
  • Udo Zander (born 1959), Swedish organizational theorist and former professor of business administration

Music[edit]

Sports[edit]

  • Udo Beyer (born 1955), East German shot putter
  • Udo Bölts (born 1966), German retired racing cyclist
  • Udo Fortune (born 1988), Nigerian soccer player
  • Udo Gelhausen (born 1956), West German shot putter
  • Udo Hempel (born 1946), German retired road and track cyclist
  • Udo Horsmann (born 1952), German former footballer
  • Udo Kiessling (born 1955), first ice hockey player to compete in five Olympic Games (1976–1992)
  • Udo Lattek (1935–2015), German football player and coach and TV pundit
  • Udo Lehmann (born 1973), German former bobsledder
  • Udo Müller, East German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1970s
  • Udochukwu "Udo" Nwoko (born 1984), Maltese-Nigerian footballer
  • Udo Onwere (born 1971), English former footballer
  • Udo Poser (born 1947), East German swimmer
  • Udo Quellmalz (born 1967), German judoka
  • Udo Raumann (born 1969), German former slalom canoer
  • Udo Riglewski (born 1966), German retired tennis player
  • Udo Schütz (born 1937), German racing driver
  • Udo Schwarz (born 1986), German international rugby union player
  • Udo Segreff (born 1973), German ice sledge hockey player
  • Udo Wagner (born 1963), German fencer
  • Udo Werner (1955–2012), West German slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s

Other[edit]

  • Udo of Aachen, fictional 13th-century monk created as a 1999 April Fool's hoax
  • Udo the Red Panda, mascot of the University of Mannheim athletics teams