Otto (surname)

Otto is a German, Dutch, Hungarian, Danish, and Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts and entertainment

• Arthur H. Otto (1876–?), Australian organist, composer, singer and music teacher
• Barry Otto (born 1941), Australian actor
• Gertrud Otto (1895–1970) German art historian
• John Otto (drummer) (born 1977), Canadian-born American drummer, original member of the band Limp Bizkit
• John Otto (radio personality) (1929–1999), American radio talk show host
• Justine Otto (born 1974), German artist
• Lisa Otto (1919–2013), German opera singer
• Ludwig Otto (1850—1920), a German landscape painter, etcher and lithographer
• Miranda Otto (born 1967), Australian actress, daughter of Barry
• Natalino Otto (1912–1969), Italian singer
• Ralf Otto (born 1956), German choral conductor and academic teacher
• Shawn Lawrence Otto, American author, filmmaker and political strategist
• Waldemar Otto (1929–2020), Polish-born German sculptor
• Whitney Otto, American author of How to Make an American Quilt
• Otto (composer) (first name unknown, fl. 18th century), composer of the early classical period

Science and academics

• Adolph Wilhelm Otto (1786–1845), German anatomist
• Berthold Otto (1859–1933), German pedagogue
• Catherine Otto, author of echocardiography textbooks
• Christoph Friedrich Otto (1783–1856), German botanist
• Felix Otto (mathematician) (born 1966), German mathematician
• Frank Otto (academic) (1936–2017), American educator and entrepreneur

Sports

• Anita Otto (born 1942), German discus thrower
• Glenn Otto (born 1996), American baseball player
• Hennie Otto (born 1976), South African golfer
• Jim Otto (1938–2024), American football player
• Joel Otto (born 1961), ice hockey player
• John Otto (cyclist) (1900–1966), American Olympic cyclist
• Jonathan Castro Otto (born 1994), Spanish football player
• Kristin Otto (born 1968), German swimmer
• Krynauw Otto (born 1971), South African rugby player
• Ricky Otto (born 1967), English footballer
• Sylke Otto (born 1969), German luger
• Tracy Otto (born 1995), American Paralympic archer
• Werner Otto (cyclist) (born 1948), East German track cyclist
• Werner Otto (footballer) (1929–2025), German (Saarland) footballer

Other

• Frei Otto (1925–2015), German architect
• Gustav Otto (1883–1926), German aircraft and aircraft-engine designer and manufacturer
• Jan Otto (1841–1916), publisher of Otto's encyclopedia
• John Otto (FBI acting director) (1938–2020), acting director of the FBI in 1987
• John Otto (park ranger) (1870–1952), first superintendent at Colorado National Monument
• John Otto (politician) (1948–2020), American politician
• John Conrad Otto (1774–1844), American physician
• Mary Otto, American journalist
• Michael Otto (businessman) (born 1943), German businessman
• Nicolaus Otto (1832–1891), coinventor of the Otto cycle
• Rudolf Otto (1869–1937), German theologian
• Venantia Otto (born 1987), Namibian fashion model
• William Tod Otto (1816–1905), American judge
• Walter Friedrich Otto (1874–1958), German philologist

See also

• Otto, given name
• Otto (disambiguation), other uses