Octavio is a
Spanish language
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masculine given name. In the
Portuguese language
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the given name Octavio or Octávio is also found, but in Portuguese the normal spelling is
Otávio. It is also used as a
surname in the Philippines.
Individuals
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Octavio Dotel, Major League Baseball relief pitcher
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Octavio Paz Lozano, Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Octavio Ocampo, Mexican artist
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Octavio Vazquez, Spanish-American composer
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Octavio Zambrano, Ecuadorian soccer coach
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Octavio Lugo, American entrepreneur, founder of StormTek, banker, businessman
Portuguese and Brazilian
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Octávio Trompowsky, Brazilian chess player
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Marco Octávio informal name of Brazilian beach soccer coach
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Octávio Mateus, Portuguese paleontologist
Fictional
* A character in ''
Scarface (1983 film)
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* A character in ''
Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds''
* , a character in ''King of the Hill''
* , a character from the video game ''Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves''
* The final boss of
''Splatoon''
* Octavio Silva, also known as Octane, a playable character in ''
Apex Legends
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* Octavio the Octopus, an octopus who appeared in The Owl and the Octopus episode of
Jim Henson's Animal Show
Film and TV
* ''Octavio'', a 1990 documentary by
Camille de Casabianca
* ''Octavio'', a 2011 film by
José Antonio Torres
Other
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SD Octavio Vigo, a Spanish handball club based in Vigo, Galicia, Spain.
* The name given by Jimi Hendrix to an effects pedal used with electric guitars, invented by Jim Morris of Kelsey-Morris Sound, London. A later version was called an
Octavia (effects pedal)
See also
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Octavo (disambiguation)
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Ottavio (disambiguation), the Italian equivalent of Octavio
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Spanish masculine given names
Masculine given names