Udo (given name)

Udo is a masculine given name. It may refer to:

Medieval era

• Udo of Neustria, 9th-century nobleman
• Udo (Obotrite prince) (died 1028)
• Udo (archbishop of Trier) (c. 1030 – 1078)
• Lothair Udo II, Margrave of the Nordmark (c. 1025 – 1082)

Modern era

• Udo Anneken (1917–1997), German Wehrmacht officer in World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
• Udo Bullmann (born 1956), German politician
• Udo Cordes (1921–2007), German Luftwaffe officer in World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
• Udo Di Fabio (born 1954), German jurist
• Udo Dziersk (born 1961), German painter
• Udo Z. Karzi (born 1970), Indonesian writer
• Udo Kasemets (1919–2014), Estonian-Canadian composer
• Udo Keppler (1872–1956), American cartoonist
• Udo Kier (born 1944), German actor
• Udo Max Hollrung (1858–1937), German botanist
• Udo Pastörs (born 1952), German far-right politician
• Udo Proksch (1934–2001), Austrian businessman, industrialist and murderer
• Udo Samel (born 1953), German actor
• Udo Schaefer (1926–2019), German lawyer and Bahá'í author
• Udo Schnelle (born 1952), German theologian and professor
• Udo Sellbach (1927–2006), German-Australian visual artist and educator
• Udo Spreitzenbarth, German photographer
• Udo Steinke (1942–1999), German writer
• Udo Uibo (born 1956), Estonian literary critic, editor, translator and lexicographer
• Udo Voigt (1952–2025), German politician
• Udo Walendy (1927–2022), German author, historian, former soldier and Holocaust denier
• Udo Weilacher (born 1963), German landscape architect, author and professor
• Udo von Woyrsch (1895–1983), high-ranking Nazi SS officer responsible for numerous murders during the Holocaust
• Udo Zander (born 1959), Swedish organizational theorist and former professor of business administration

Music

• Udo Dahmen (born 1951), German drummer and author
• Udo Dirkschneider (born 1952), German heavy metal vocalist who formed the band U.D.O.
• Udo Jürgens (1934–2014), Austrian composer and singer
• Udo Lindenberg (born 1946), German rock musician and composer
• Udo Mechels (born 1976), Belgian musician often known simply as "Udo"
• Udo Suzuki (born 1970), Japanese musician and comedian
• Udo Zimmermann (1943–2021), German composer, music director and conductor

Sports

• Udo Beyer (born 1955), East German shot putter
• Udo Bölts (born 1966), German retired racing cyclist
• Udo Fortune (born 1988), Nigerian soccer player
• Udo Gelhausen (born 1956), West German shot putter
• Udo Hempel (born 1946), German retired road and track cyclist
• Udo Horsmann (born 1952), German former footballer
• Udo Kiessling (born 1955), first ice hockey player to compete in five Olympic Games (1976–1992)
• Udo Lattek (1935–2015), German football player and coach and TV pundit
• Udo Lehmann (born 1973), German former bobsledder
• Udo Müller, East German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1970s
• Udochukwu "Udo" Nwoko (born 1984), Maltese-Nigerian footballer
• Udo Onwere (born 1971), English former footballer
• Udo Poser (born 1947), East German swimmer
• Udo Quellmalz (born 1967), German judoka
• Udo Raumann (born 1969), German former slalom canoer
• Udo Riglewski (born 1966), German retired tennis player
• Udo Schütz (born 1937), German racing driver
• Udo Schwarz (born 1986), German international rugby union player
• Udo Segreff (born 1973), German ice sledge hockey player
• Udo Wagner (born 1963), German fencer
• Udo Werner (1955–2012), West German slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s

Other

• Udo of Aachen, fictional 13th-century monk created as a 1999 April Fool's hoax
• Udo the Red Panda, mascot of the University of Mannheim athletics teams