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The name Odo has been used historically and in fiction.

Historical

• Odo the Great (a.k.a. Eudes, Eudo, or Otto) (d.c.735), Duke of Aquitaine.
• Odo, Count of Paris (c. 860 - 898), also called Eudes, a king of the Franks.
• 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.
• Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury, England, 942-959, known as Oda the Severe.
• Odo, Duke of Burgundy (944 – 965) was Duke of Burgundy.
• Odo of Bayeux (c. 1036 – 1097), Norman bishop and English earl.
• 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.

Fictional

• Odo, a fictional shapeshifting being in the sci-fi series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
• Odo was the founder of an anarchist political movement in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1975 science-fiction novel, The Dispossessed.
• Rubeus Hagrid and Horace Slughorn sing a song about a wizard named Odo in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Odo is a character in the Lord of the Rings rough drafts. J.R.R. Tolkien hesitated in taking him out of the story (he didn't like him) because his son, Christopher Tolkien, wanted him kept. In the end he was deleted.

Other Usages

• Odo is a genus of spiders (Zoridae).

See also

• Eudes, an alternate form

• Disambiguation pages