Odo

This article is about the medieval name. For the genus of spiders, see Zoridae.

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 a Germanic word meaning "possessor of wealth".

Historical

Nobility

Odo the Great (died c. 735), Duke of Aquitaine
Odo I, Count of Orléans (died 834)
Odo I, Count of Troyes (died 871)
Odo II, Count of Troyes (held the title in 876)
Odo of France (860–898), King of the Franks
Odo of Toulouse (died 918 or 919), Count of Toulouse
Odo, Duke of Burgundy (944–965)
Odo of Fézensac (died 985), Count of Fézensac
Odo I, Count of Blois (950–996)
Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (died 993)
Odo II, Count of Blois (Eudes le Champenois) (983–1037)
Odo II, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (died 1046)
Odo, Count of Penthièvre (c. 999 - 1079), co-Duke of Brittany
Odo IV, Count of Troyes (died 1115)

See also:

Clerics

Odo of Glanfeuil, abbot and hagiographer of the 9th century
Odo of Cluny (c. 878 – 942), a Roman Catholic saint
Odo of Arezzo (fl. late 10th century), composer and theorist
Oda of Canterbury (died 958), Archbishop of Canterbury
Odo, Earl of Kent (c. 1036 – 1097), Norman bishop and English earl
Odo of Cambrai (1050–1113), Benedictine monk and bishop
Odo of Urgell (died 1122), saint and Bishop of Urgell
Odo de St Amand, 12th century Grand Master of the Knights Templar
Odo of Deuil, 12th century historian and crusader
Odo of Canterbury (died 1200), saint and abbot of Battle
Odo of Novara (c. 1105 – 1200), Carthusian monk
Odo of Châteauroux (c. 1190 – 1273), French cardinal
Odo of Cheriton (c. 1185 – 1246/47), Roman Catholic priest and fabulist
Pope Martin V (1368–1431), born Odo or Oddone Colonna
Odo O'Driscoll, Bishop of Ross, Ireland (Bishop 1473-1494), also known as Hugh O'Driscoll

Modern

Odo Casel (1886–1948), also known as Johannes Casel, German Catholic theologian and monk
Odo Hirsch (born 1962), Australian author
Odo Marquard (1928-2015), German philosopher
Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill (1829–1884), British diplomat

Fictional characters

Odo (Star Trek), a shapeshifter in the science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Odo Proudfoot, a cousin of Bilbo Baggins from the fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings
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
Odo the Hero, a wizard first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Professors Hagrid and Slughorn sing a sad song about Odo dying when they get drunk after the spider Aragog's funeral. The song is again sung by Charlie Weasley, Hagrid and a squat wizard during Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. "And Odo the hero, they bore him back home/ To the place that he'd known as a lad,/ They laid him to rest with his hat inside out/ And his wand snapped in two, which was sad."
Odo the chimpanzee, in Yann Martel's The High Mountains of Portugal.