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'''Odo''' is a name typically associated with historical figures from the Middle Ages and before. Odo is etymologically related to the names[[Image:kruk2.bmp]] 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:'''
* [[Odo I]]
* [[Odo II]]
=== 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 Canterbury]], Saint and abbot of Battle (d. 1200)
* Blessed [[Odo of Novara]], Carthusian monk (d. 1200)
* [[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[http://arctic.org/~dean/] (1970 – current), contributor to many open source software projects
==Fictional==
* [[Odo Proudfoot]], a cousin of [[Bilbo Baggins]] from the fantasy trilogy, [[The Lord of the Rings]].
* [[Odo (Star Trek)]], 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]].
==Other uses==
* ''odo'', A line of prototype devices from Sony which rely on kinetic energy by Sony Design Center in California under the creative direction of Michelle Koza.
* ''Odo'', a genios of spiders ([[Zoridae]])
* [[Odo Shakiso]], a district in Ethiopia
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