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/* Persons with the name Ingo */
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{{Infobox Given Name Revised
| name = Ingo
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| pronunciation= ɪɳʔo
| gender = Male
| meaning = protected by [[Yngvi]]
| region = Northern Europe
| origin = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| related names = Inga
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'''Ingo''' is a [[first name]] in contemporary [[Scandinavia]] and [[Germany]], and a historical name in [[France]]. It is the male version of the name [[Inga]], used in the same region, and as a name for a tropical plant.
"Ingo" means "protected by [[Yngvi]]", who is the main god for the [[Ingvaeones]], and is probably a different name for the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] god [[Freyr]].
==Persons with the name Ingo==
* [[Ingo Anderbrügge]], German football player
* [[Ingo Buding]], German tennis player
* [[Ingo Giezendanner]], Swiss artist
* [[Ingo Hoffmann]], Brazilian race car driver
* [[Ingemar Johansson]], "[[Ingo]]", Swedish boxer
* [[Ingo Molnár]], Hungarian computer programmer
* [[Ingo Nugel]], German composer of video game music
* [[Ingo Preminger]], American movie producer, brother of director Otto Preminger
* [[Ingo Rademacher]], German-born Australian soap opera actor
* [[Ingo Schmitt]], German politician
* [[Ingo Schulze]], German author
* [[Ingo Schwichtenberg]], German rock musician
* [[Ingo Steuer]], German figure skater
* [[Ingo Swann]], remote viewer
* [[List of characters in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time#Ingo|Ingo]], a character in the [[video game]] ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]''
==See also==
* [[Inga]], Ingolf, Ingmar, Ingobald, [[Ingrid (name)|Ingrid]], [[Inka]], Inken
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