Bodo (first name)
Bodo is a male given name that is mainly used in the German-speaking area and came back into fashion through the Romantic era (around the beginning of the 19th century ).
Minor forms
- Botho
- Boto
Onomastics
The name is derived from the Old Saxon word bodo , which meant master . It is wrongly attributed to the Old High German word boto ( messenger ).
name day
Name bearer
Form Bodo
- Bodo Abel (* 1948), German economist
- Bodo von Borries (1905–1956), co-inventor of the electron microscope
- Bodo Christ (1941–2016), German physician and anatomist
- Bodo Ebhardt (1865–1945), German architect, architectural historian and castle researcher
- Bogislaw Bodo von Flemming (1671–1732), lieutenant general in Electoral Saxony
- Bodo H. Hauser (1946-2004), German journalist and presenter (ZDF)
- Bodo von Harbou (1880–1943), colonel and resistance fighter against Hitler
- Bodo Hechelhammer (* 1968), German historian
- Bodo Henkel (* 1952), German presenter and voice actor
- Bodo von Hodenberg (1604–1650), German poet
- Bodo von Hodenberg (1826–1907), German diplomat and politician
- Bodo Hombach (* 1952), German politician and manager
- Bodo Illgner (* 1967), German football player (goalkeeper)
- Bodo Kirchhoff (* 1948), German writer
- Bodo Kraft (* 1951), German painter and draftsman
- Bodo Klimpel (* 1963), German politician
- Bodo Lampe (* 1955), German physicist and writer
- Bodo Morshäuser (* 1953), German writer
- Bodo Nowodworski (* 1949), German politician
- Bodo Olthoff (* 1940), East Frisian painter and graphic artist
- Bodo Pieroth (* 1945), German legal scholar
- Bodo Primus (* 1938), German actor
- Bodo Ramelow (* 1956), German politician (Die Linke), former Prime Minister of Thuringia
- Bodo Rudwaleit (* 1957), GDR national soccer player (goalkeeper)
- Bodo Schäfer (* 1960), German author, speaker and entrepreneur
- Bodo Schmidt (* 1950), German chess player
- Bodo Schmidt (* 1965), German soccer player (KSV Hessen Kassel)
- Bodo Schmidt (* 1967), German soccer player (Borussia Dortmund, 1. FC Cologne)
- Bodo Seidenthal (* 1947), German politician (SPD)
- Bodo Spiethoff (1875–1948), German dermatologist and university professor
- Bodo Spiethoff (1918–2000), German economist and writer
- Bodo Staiger (1949–2019), German musician and producer
- Bodo von Suckow (1830–1904), Prussian lieutenant general
- Bodo Tümmler (* 1943), German athlete
- Bodo Wartke (* 1977), German cabaret artist
- Bodo Wolf (* 1944), German actor and voice actor
- Bodo Zimmermann (1886–1963), German officer
- Bodo Zimmermann (1902–1945), German painter and graphic artist
Form Botho
- Botho Brachmann (* 1930), German archivist and historian
- Botho Henning Elster (1894–1952), German officer, most recently major general in World War II
- Botho zu Eulenburg (1831–1912), Prussian politician
- Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg (1884–1915), German composer of the late Romantic period
- Botho Graef (1857–1917), German classical archaeologist and art historian
- Botho von Hülsen (1815–1886), theater director of the Royal Prussian Drama and President of the German Stage Association
- Botho Jung (1927–2014), German television and radio presenter
- Botho Laserstein (1901–1955), German judge and publicist
- Botho Lucas (1923–2012), German accordionist, composer and choir director
- Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1927–2008), German politician (CDU), honorary president of the German Red Cross
- Botho zu Stolberg (1467–1538), German regent
- Botho zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1805–1881), German historian and castle researcher
- Botho Strauss (* 1944), German writer
- Botho Walldorf (* 1945), German photographer and local history researcher
- Botho von Wedel (1862–1943), German diplomat
Fictional people
- Bodo Bach , German comedian
- Botho von Rienäcker, figure in Theodor Fontane's work Irrungen, Wirrungen
Nickname
- Bodo (* 1963), German metal bassist, see Thomas Smuszynski
Song title
- Bodo with the excavator of Mike Krüger
- Bodo Ballermann by Udo Lindenberg