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

Medieval era

Udo of Neustria Udo was a 9th-century nobleman of East Francia, a son of Gebhard, Count of Lahngau, and older brother of Berengar I of Neustria. He and his brother were afforded their position in the March of Neustria both by kinship to Adalard the Seneschal and th ...

, 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 The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross () and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded for a wide range of reasons and across ...

(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 Udo Kasemets (November 16, 1919 – January 19, 2014) was a Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first composers to adopt the methods of John Cage, and was also a conductor, lecturer ...

(1919–2014), Estonian-Canadian composer * Udo Keppler (1872–1956), American cartoonist *

Udo Kier Udo Kierspe (born 14 October 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor, he has appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe and the Americas. He has ...

(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 Udo Schaefer (October 19, 1926 – August 30, 2019) was a German lawyer and a theologian of the Baháʼí Faith. Education Schafer received a Doctor of Law degree in church law from Heidelberg University, Rupert Carola University. Career Scha ...

(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 (born 1952), German politician and former soldier * 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 Udo Gustav Wilhelm Egon von Woyrsch (24 July 1895 – 14 January 1983) was a Nazi Party politician and SS-''Obergruppenführer'' in Nazi Germany who participated in the massacre of Jews in Poland, and was later convicted of being an accessory ...

(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 Jürgen Udo Bockelmann (30 September 1934 – 21 December 2014), generally known as Udo Jürgens, was an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spanned over 50 years. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria, ...

(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 Udo Zimmermann (6 October 1943 – 22 October 2021) was a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor. He worked as a professor of composition, founded a centre for contemporary music in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig ...

(1943–2021), German composer, music director and conductor

Sports

Udo Beyer Udo Beyer (born 9 August 1955) is a former East German track and field athlete who competed in the shot put. Beyer has admitted to knowingly taking part in doping while he competed for East Germany. He was a Stasi informer under the codename "K ...

(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 Udo Schwarz (born 7 July 1986) is a German List of Germany national rugby union players, international rugby union player, playing for the SC Neuenheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the Germany national rugby union team, German national rugby union ...

(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 {{Given name German masculine given names Masculine given names Estonian masculine given names