Otto - Given Name

Given Name

• Otto (mayor of the palace) (died 643 or 644), mayor of the palace of Austrasia briefly in the mid-7th century
• Otto I, Duke of Saxony
• the Ottonian dynasty
  • Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)
  • Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955-983)
  • Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980-1002)
• Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175/1176-1218)
• Otto Dowling (1881-1946), 25th Governor of American Samoa
• Otto of Freising (c. 1114-1158), bishop and chronicler
• Otto of Greece (1815-1867), King of Greece
• Otto of Bavaria (1848-1916), King of Bavaria
• Otto Adler, president of the Jewish Association of Romania
• Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of Anne Frank
• Otto Freundlich (1878 1943), German painter and sculptor
• Otto Graham (1921-2003), professional American football and basketball player
• Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926-2009), German politician
• Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964), East German politician
• Otto Herschmann (1877–1942), Austrian Olympic fencing and swimming medalist
• Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), German-born conductor and composer
• Otto Lilienthal, German aviator
• Otto Peterson, American comedian (Otto & George ventriloquism act)
• Otto Plath (1885-1940), father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist
• Otto Preminger (1905-1986), Austro–Hungarian-born American film director
• Otto Rehhagel, German football coach
• Otto Scheff, Austrian Olympic swimming champion
• Otto Schmitt (field hockey), Argentine field hockey goalkeeper
• Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975), Austrian-born Waffen-SS commando
• Otto Soglow, American cartoonist
• Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck (1897-1975), German politician and diplomat
• Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian/German statesman
• Otto von Habsburg (1912-2011), head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine from 1922 to 2007
• Otto Waalkes (born 1948), German comedian and actor
• Otto Wahle (1879-1963), Austrian-born American Olympic swimming medalist and Hall of Fame
• Otto Dix (1891-1969), German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war.