Bodo

Bodo may refer to:

Locations

• Bodø, A city in Norway
• Bodo, Alberta, a hamlet in Central Alberta, Canada, close to the Saskatchewan border.
• Bodo (Didiévi), a town and commune in Côte d'Ivoire
• BoDo, a district of Boise, ID; the name of which stems from Boise Downtown.
• Bodo (Tiassalé), a town and commune in Côte d'Ivoire
• Bodo, a village in Balinţ Commune, Timiş County, Romania

People

Bodo is a common Germanic name, especially during the Middle Ages:

• Bishop Bodo, 9th-century German deacon who converted to Judaism, assuming the name of Eleazar
• Bodo (painter) (born 1953), a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Bodo Bittner, a West German bobsledder
• Bodo Ferl (born 1959), an East German bobsledder who competed from the mid to late 1980s
• Bodo Gyorgy, Hungarian actor
• Bodo Hell (born 1943), an Austrian writer
• Bodo Hombach (born 1952), German politician
• Bodo Illgner (born 1967), a former German football goalkeeper
• Bodo Johansen (1911–1996), a Russian biologist specialising in ichthyology, hydrobiology and fishery
• Bodo Lafferentz (1897–1974), a member of the Nazi Party from 1933 and a high ranking officer in the SS from 1939
• Bodo Otto (1711–1787), a Senior Surgeon of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
• Bodo Ramelow (born 1956), a German politician of the Left Party
• Bodo Rudwaleit (born 1957), a German former football goalkeeper
• Bodo Schmidt (born 1967), a German football coach and a former player
• Bodo Tümmler (born 1943), a German former middle distance runner
• Bodo Thyssen, Dr. (1918–2004), a German industrialist and medical doctor
• Eugeniusz Bodo (1899–1943), Polish actor and director
• Gyorgy Bodo (1916–1986), a Hungarian actor
• Saint Bodo of Toul
• Peter Bodo (born 1949), an Austrian born American sportswriter and author

Science

• Bodo (genus), A genus of kinetoplastid protozoa
• Bodo (fossil), the skull of a Homo heidelbergensis or Homo erectus found 1976 in Ethiopia
• Bodo saltans, a free-living nonparasitic species of kinetoplastid flagellate protozoan

Culture

• Bodo-Kachari, a term for several ethnic groups in Assam speaking Tibeto-Burman languages or claiming a common mythical ancestry
• Bodo-Garo languages, family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in eastern India
• Bodo-Koch languages, a family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in eastern India
• Bodo people, an ethnic community in India
  • The Bodo language spoken by them
  • Bodo Brahma Dharma, a new religion founded in the early 20th century among the Bodo people
  • Bodo culture, the culture of the Bodo people in Assam
  • Bodo Liberation Tigers Force (BLTF), an armed separatist group operating in the Bodo dominated regions of Assam
  • Bodo Sahitya Sabha, the vanguard of Bodo language and literature
• Bodo League massacre, a massacre that occurred in 1950 during the Korean War