Bodo



Gender:
Origin: German, Slavic
158 famous people named Bodo found on Wikipedia.

Meanings

Bodo (variants Botho, Boto, Boddo, Potho, Boda, Puoto, etc.) is an Old High German name, also adopted in Modern German. It is in origin a short name or hypocorism for Germanic names with a first element Bod-, Puot-, reflecting the verbal root beud- "to bid, command". As a monothematic name, Old High German Boto, Old Saxon Bodo, could mean "lord, commander" or alternatively "messenger" (c.f. Old English bod "command; message", boda "messenger, angel"). Full dithematic names with this first element (attested for the medieval period but not surviving into modern use) included Bodegisil, Bothad, Bodomar, Boderad, Poterich, Bodirid, Butwin, Potelfrid, Botolf, Podalolf, Bodenolf.
The Anglo-Saxon cognate was Beda (West Saxon Bīeda, Northumbrian Bǣda, Anglian Bēda).
Middle Ages
Bodo (deacon), 9th-century German deacon who converted to Judaism, assuming the name of Eleazar
Bodo VII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1375-1455)
Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1467-1538)
Early Modern
Bodo Otto (1711–1787), a Senior Surgeon of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
Modern
Bodo Bittner, West German bobsledder
Bodo Ferl (born 1959), East German retired bobsledder
Bodo Hell (born 1943), Austrian writer
Bodo Hombach (born 1952), German politician
Bodo Illgner (born 1967), German former football goalkeeper
Bodo Lafferentz (1897–1974), Nazi and high-ranking SS officer
Bodo Linnhoff (born 1948), chemical engineer
Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1927–2008), German politician
Bodo Ramelow (born 1956), German politician
Bodo Rudwaleit (born 1957), German former football goalkeeper
Bodo Schmidt (born 1967), German football coach and former player
Botho Strauß (b. 1944), German playwright
Bodo Thyssen (1918–2004), German industrialist and medical doctor
Bodo Tümmler (born 1943), German former middle distance runner


Germanic element, means: command, order. Derivative of the personal name Bod, pet form of the Old Slavic personal name Ostrobod, composed of the elements ostro (sharp) and bode (to stab, prick). From a personal name derived from the Germanic root bald: bold, brave.

Famous People: 158 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Bodo Wartke 1977 German pianist and cabaret artist
2 Bodo Illgner 1967 German footballer
3 Bodo Bach 1957 Fictional character
4 Bodo Schäfer 1960 German writer
5 Eugeniusz Bodo 1899 Actor
6 Bodo H. Hauser 1946 German television presenter and journalist
7 Bodo Ramelow 1956 German politician
8 Bodo Spranz 1920 German officer and Knight's Cross recipient
9 Bodo Staiger 1949 German actor
10 Bodo Pieroth 1945 German jurist
11 Bodo Knut Uebber 1959 German manager
12 Bodo Lafferentz 1897 SS officer
13 Bodo Fürneisen 1950 German film director
14 Bodo Boeck 2000 German television presenter
15 Bodo Primus 1938 German actor and voice actor
16 Bodo Ebhardt 1865 German architect and castle explorer
17 Bodo Uhse 1904 German politician
18 Bodo Otto 1711 Physician in the American Revolution
19 Bodo Hombach 1952 German politician
20 Bodo Linnhoff 1948 Chemical engineer
21 Bodo Löttgen 1959 German politician
22 Peter Bodo 1949 American sportswriter and author
23 Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode 1467 Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode
24 Bodo Frank 1977 German actor
25 Bodo Klimpel 1963 Mayor of Haltern
26 Bodo Mattern 1958 German association football player
27 Bodo Tümmler 1943 German middle distance runner
28 Bodo Wiegand-Hoffmeister 1966
29 Bodo Sperling 1952 German artist, Conceptual Art, Inventor
30 Bodo Mrozek 1968 German journalist and author
31 Bodo von Harbou 1887
32 Bodo Hechelhammer 1968 German historian
33 Bodo Thyssen 1918 German businessman
34 Bodo Kirchhoff 1948 German writer
35 Bodo von Borries 1943 German historian and educationist
36 Boaringdao Bodo
37 Bodo Krämer 1945 German actor
38 Bodo Morshäuser 1953 German writer
39 Bodo Scheurig 1928 German historian of modern age and author
40 Bodo Rudwaleit 1957 German footballer
41 Yaakov Bodo 1931 Actor
42 Bodo Theodor Adolphi 1939 German politician
43 Bodo Dewitz 1950 German art historian
44 Bodo Manstein 1911 German physician
45 Bodo Menze 1953 German association football manager
46 Bodo Zeuner 1942 German political scientist
47 Bodo Niggemann 1951 German physician
48 Bodo Sperlein German industrial designer
49 Bodo 0814 9th-century bishop
50 Bodo Dettke 1967 Solomon Islands politician
51 Bodo Abel 1948 German business theorist
52 Bodo Borries von Ditfurth 1852 German military advisor (1852-1915)
53 Bodo Sieber 1979 German rugby union player
54 Bodo VII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode German noble
55 Bodo Ihrke 1955
56 Bodo Richter 1941 German politician
57 Bodo Scriba 1939 German film producer and entrepreneur
58 Bodo Wißen 1974 German politician
59 Bodo von Oeynhausen 1881
60 Bodo von Witzendorff 1876 German officer
61 Bodo Kolbe 1949 German musician
62 Bodo Krüger 1958 German journalist
63 Bodo von Hodenberg 1826 German diplomat and politician
64 Bodo Zimmermann 1902 German illustrator and painter
65 Bodo Mette 2000 German actor
66 Bodo Schulte 1963 German screenwriter
67 Bodo Bockenauer 1940 German figure skater
68 Bodo Bittner 1940 Bobsledder
69 Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo 1968 French politician
70 Bodo Müller 1924 German philologist and romanist
71 Bodo Gorgaß 1950 German physician, journalist and author
72 Bodo Dieckmann 1952 German archaeologist and prehistorian
73 Bodo Champignon 1941 German politician
74 Bodo Olthoff 1940 German painter
75 Bodo Baumgarten 1940 German painter
76 Bodo Heimann 1935 German author
77 Bodo Venten 1964 German television presenter, journalist and radio host
78 Bodo Straubel 1958
79 Bodo Ferl 1963 Bobsledder
80 Bodo Hell 1943 Austrian writer
81 Bodo Ritscher 1948 German historian
82 Bodo Broschat 1959 German sculptor
83 Bodo Sandberg 1914 Royal Netherlands Air Force personnel
84 Bodo Bischoff 1952 German musicologist
85 Bodo Lorenzen 1947 German journalist
86 Bodo Schmidt 1965 German association football player
87 Bodo Homberg 1926 German screenwriter and author
88 Bodo Meier 1949 German painter
89 Bodo Sommer 1952 German association football player
90 Bodo Nowodworski 1949 German politician
91 Bodo Kühn 1912 German author
92 Bodo von Trott zu Solz 1879
93 Bodo E. Linde 1970 German author
94 Bodo Igesz 1935
95 Bodo Schümann 1937 German politician
96 Bodo Hertsch 1943 German veterinarian
97 Bodo Karcher 1886 German engineer
98 Bodo Saggel 1939
99 Bodo Fischer 1935 German politician
100 Bodo Seidenthal 1947 German politician
101 Bodo Morawe 1938 German historian
102 Bodo Kuhn 1967 German athletics competitor
103 Bodo Schwanbeck 1935 German opera singer
104 Bodo von Bülow 1834 German politician and jurist
105 Bodo Berheide 1944 German sculptor
106 Bodo Schramm 1932 German painter (1932-2006)
107 Bodo Schütt 1906
108 Bodo von Bodenhausen 1860 German jurist
109 Bodo Fuchs 1941 German association football player
110 Bodo Schaff 2000 German diplomat
111 Thomas Bodo 1980 French bicycle racer
112 Bodo Leckelt 1970 German handball player
113 Bodo Fründt 1945 German journalist (1945-2014)
114 Bodo Wehmeier 1954 German association football player
115 Bodo Wildberg 1862 German author
116 Bodo Voigts 1844 German judge
117 Bodo Hamprecht 1940 German physicist
118 Bodo Selge 1911 German politician
119 Hans Bodo von Alvensleben-Neugattersleben 1882 German politician
120 Bodo Teichmann 1932 German politician
121 Bodo Spiethoff 1918 German economist
122 Bodo Wallbrecht
123 Bodo Räke 1941 German politician
124 Bodo Francke 1918 German teacher and painter
125 Bodo Buhl 1951 German painter
126 Bodo Mros 1930
127 Bodo Bodenhausen 1633 German jurist
128 Bodo Daus 1957 German association football player
129 Bodo Heyne 1893
130 Bodo Martin Vogel 1900 German author
131 Bodo von Scriba 1863
132 Bodo Wolf 1940
133 Bodo Schulz 1911 German politician
134 Bodo Lampe 1955 German physicist
135 Bodo Lecke 1939 German educationist
136 Bodo Jopp 1952 German association football player
137 Bodo Saake 1961 German university teacher
138 Bodo Buschmann
139 Bodo Borchers 1835
140 Bodo Helmholz 1913 German jurist
141 Bodo Krumbholz 1958 German politician
142 Bodo Horstkotte 1950 German association football player
143 Fritz Bodo 1893 Austrian educationist
144 Bodo Kox 1977 Polish actor and film director
145 Bodo Nüdling 1943 German politician
146 Bodo Kaltenboeck 1893
147 Bodo Pareigis 1937
148 Bodo Klüßendorf 1958 German association football player
149 Bodo Thomas 1932
150 Bodo Kampmann 1913
151 Bodo von dem Knesebeck 1851
152 Bodo Witzke 1955
153 Bodo Genz 1973
154 Bodo Kroehl 1873 German politician
155 Cristiano Bodo 1968
156 Bodo Spalty
157 Bodo Middeldorf 1967 German politician
158 Bodo Hollemann 1940