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See also: EudesOdo 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 to the Italian names Ottone and Udo; all come from a Germanic word meaning "possessor of wealth". Odo has also been used as a name for fictional characters.
Historical
Royal
- Odo the Great (a.k.a. Eudes, Eudo, or Otto) (d.c.735), Duke of Aquitaine
- Odo I, Count of Orléans (d. 834)
- Odo I, Count of Troyes (d. 871)
- Odo II, Count of Troyes (held the title in 876)
- Odo of France, king of the Franks (860 - 898)
- Odo of Toulouse, count of Toulouse (d. 918 or 919)
- Odo, Count of Paris (c. 860 - 898), also called Eudes, a king of the Franks
- Odo, Duke of Burgundy (944 – 965)
- Odo of Fézensac, Count of Fézensac from 960
- Odo I, Count of Blois (950-996)
- Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (d. 993)
- Odo II, Count of Blois (Eudes le Champenois) (983 - 1037)
- Odo II, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (d. 1046)
- Odo of Gascony (1010 - 1093)
- Odo IV, Count of Troyes (d. 1115)
See also:
Clerical
- Odo of Glanfeuil, abbot and hagiographer (9th century)
- Saint Odo of Cluny (c. 878 - 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- Odo of Arezzo (fl. late 10th century) a composer and theorist
- Oda the Severe, Archbishop of Canterbury, England, 942-959, known as Oda the Severe
- Odo of Bayeux (c. 1036 – 1097), Norman bishop and English earl
- Odo of Cambrai, Benedictine monk and bishop (1050 - 1113)
- Odo de St Amand, grandmaster of the Knights Templar, 12th century
- Odo of Deuil, historian and crusader, 12th century
- Odo of Châteauroux, French cardinal (d. 1273)
- Odo of Cheriton, priest and fabulist, 13th century
- Odo Colonna (1368 – 1431), Pope Martin V, also known as Oddone Colonna
- Odo O'Driscoll, Bishop of Ross, Ireland, bishop 1482-c. 1492, also known as Hugh O'Driscoll
Modern
- Odo Casel also known as Johannes Casel (1886–1948), German Catholic theologist
- Odo Hirsch (b. 1962), Australian author
- Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill, (1829 – 1884), British diplomat
- Nickname of Dean Gaudet (1970 - current), contributor to many open source software projects
Fictional
- Odo, a fictional shapeshifting being in the sci-fi series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Odo, the founder of an anarchist political movement in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1975 science-fiction novel, The Dispossessed
- Odo, a wizard about whom Rubeus Hagrid and Horace Slughorn sing a song in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- Odo, a character in the Lord of the Rings rough drafts. The author, J.R.R. Tolkien, hesitated to take him out because his son, Christopher Tolkien, wanted the character kept. In the end, he was deleted.
Other uses
- Odo A line of prototype devices from Sony which rely on kinetic energy
- Odo, a genios of spiders (Zoridae)
- Odo Shakiso, a district in Ethiopia
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