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 Kratky

Otto Josef Leopold Kratky

First Name Otto

Last Name Kratky

Born on March 9, 1902

Died on February 11, 1995 (aged 92)

Born in Austria

Otto Kratky was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his contribution to the small-angle X-ray scattering method, for the Kratky plot, and for the invention the density metering using the oscillating u-tube principle. The worm-like chain model in polymer physics, introduced with Günther Porod in a 1949 paper, is also named the Kratky–Porod model.

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Otto Beisheim

First Name Otto

Last Name Beisheim

Born on January 3, 1924

Died on February 18, 2013 (aged 89)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

Otto Beisheim was a German businessman and founder of Metro AG. In 2010, his net worth was estimated at US$3.6 billion.

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Otto Reinhold

First Name Otto

Last Name Reinhold

Born on January 8, 1925

Died on April 27, 2016 (aged 91)

Born in Czech Republic, Karlovy Vary Region, Karlovy Vary

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Otto Kern

First Name Otto

Last Name Kern

Born on February 8, 1950

Died on December 10, 2017 (aged 67)

Born in Germany, Bavaria

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Otto III de Schaumbourg

First Name Otto

Last Name Schaumbourg

Died on January 1, 1510

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Otto Flimm

First Name Otto

Last Name Flimm

Born on May 18, 1929

Died on February 10, 2020 (aged 90)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

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Otto Pächt

First Name Otto

Last Name Pächt

Born on September 7, 1902

Died on April 17, 1988 (aged 85)

Born in Austria

Otto Pächt was an Austrian art historian and one of the representatives of the second wave of the Vienna School of Art History. He mostly wrote on the medieval and Renaissance art of Europe. An exile from the Nazis, he taught in England and United States, before returning to Austria in 1963.

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Otto Regenbogen

First Name Otto

Last Name Regenbogen

Born on March 23, 1855

Died on May 31, 1925 (aged 70)

Born in Germany, Hesse

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Otto Arndt

First Name Otto

Last Name Arndt

Born on July 19, 1920

Died on February 3, 1992 (aged 71)

Born in Germany, Saxony-Anhalt

Otto Arndt was an East German politician who served as Minister of Transport and General Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1970 until 1989.

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Otto Bayer

First Name Otto

Last Name Bayer

Born on November 4, 1902

Died on August 1, 1982 (aged 79)

Born in Germany, Hesse

Otto Bayer was a German industrial chemist at IG Farben who was head of the research group that in 1937 discovered the polyaddition for the synthesis of polyurethanes out of poly-isocyanate and polyol.

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