List of Famous people named Otto

Name Otto is among the most common names in Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Similar names: Ota, Otho, Otti, Oti, Ott, Otte, Otoya. Here are some famous Ottos:

Otto Brixner

First Name Otto
Last Name Brixner
Born on November 30, 1942 (age 83)

Otto Brixner is a former German judge. He was the presiding judge of the 7th Chamber of the criminal division of the Nuremberg-Fürth District Court, Germany.

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Otto Thorbeck

First Name Otto
Last Name Thorbeck
Born on January 1, 1912
Died on January 1, 1976 (aged 64)

Otto Thorbeck was a German lawyer and Nazi SS judge in the Hauptamt SS-Gericht.

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Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg

First Name Otto
Last Name Brandenburg
Born on January 1, 1128
Died on July 8, 1184 (aged 56)

Otto I was the second Margrave of Brandenburg, from 1170 until his death.

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Otto Heinrich Fugger, Count of Kirchberg

First Name Otto
Last Name Kirchberg
Born on January 12, 1592
Died on October 12, 1644 (aged 52)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Otto Heinrich Fugger, Count of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn (1592–1644) was promoted to be a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1628. He was the son of Christoph Fugger von Glött, deceased 1615, the grandson of Johann Fugger, deceased 1598, the great grandson of very wealthy Augsburg city International businessman and banker Anton Fugger (1493–1560). The 16th century Fugger's, descendants of a German businessmen family tracked down to the 14th century, were the Imperial bankers with King Charles I of Imperial Spain, also Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V (1500–1558), and his brother, also Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand I of Habsburg (1503–1564), king of Hungary and Bohemia from 1526, emperor from 1556 by abdication of his brother Charles.

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Otto III or I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria

First Name Otto
Last Name Bavaria
Died on July 11, 1183
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Otto I, called the Redhead, was Duke of Bavaria from 1180 until his death. He was also called Otto VI as Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1156 to 1180. He was the first Bavarian ruler from the House of Wittelsbach, a dynasty which reigned until the abdication of King Ludwig III of Bavaria in the German Revolution of 1918.

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Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach

First Name Otto
Last Name Wittelsbach
Died on August 4, 1156
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Otto V, Count of Wittelsbach, also called Otto IV, Count of Scheyern, was the second son of Eckhard I, Count of Scheyern. Otto named himself Otto of Wittelsbach, after Wittelsbach Castle near Aichach. He served Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, in his first Italian Expedition in 1110–1111. Emperor Henry V already addressed him as Otto Count of "Witlinesbac" in a document in 1115. From 1120 onwards, he was Count palatine of Bavaria.

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Otto I

First Name Otto
Last Name I
Died on November 30, 0912

Otto, called the Illustrious by later authors, a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duke of Saxony from 880 to his death.

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Otto III, Duke of Carinthia

First Name Otto
Last Name Carinthia
Born on January 1, 1265
Died on May 25, 1310 (aged 45)

Otto III, a member of the House of Gorizia, was Duke of Carinthia and Count of Tyrol from 1295 until his death. He ruled jointly with his younger brothers Louis and Henry VI.

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Otto IV or II Wittelsbach

First Name Otto
Last Name Wittelsbach
Born on April 7, 1206
Died on November 29, 1253 (aged 47)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Otto II of Bavaria known as Otto the Illustrious was the Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine. He was the son of Louis I and Ludmilla of Bohemia and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

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Otto Meyer-Amden

First Name Otto
Last Name Meyer-Amden
Born on February 20, 1885
Died on January 15, 1933 (aged 47)

Otto Meyer-Amden was a Swiss painter and graphic artist.

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