# Udo

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

## Plants

* Udo, the Japanese name for Aralia cordata

## People
### 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 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 (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 (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
* Udo (Jeju Province), an island in South Korea