List of Famous people named Theodor

Theodor Strünck was a German lawyer and resistance worker, involved in the 20 July plot.

Theodor Koch-Grünberg was a German ethnologist and explorer who made a valuable contribution to the study of the Indigenous peoples in South America, in particular the Pemon of Venezuela and other indigenous peoples in the Amazon region extending South-Western Brazil and a large part of the Vaupés region in Colombia. The 2015 film El abrazo de la serpiente fictionalizes his illness and final days based on his journals. He was played by actor Jan Bijvoet.

Theodor Dannecker was an SS-captain (Hauptsturmführer), and an associate of Adolf Eichmann. As a specialist on Nazi anti-Jewish policies (Judenberater), he was one of those who orchestrated the Final Solution in several countries during the World War II genocide of European Jews in what became known as the Holocaust.

Theodor von Reding was a Spanish general born and raised in Switzerland, where he commenced his military career. He served in Spain as a governor and general, leading Swiss and Spanish troops against Napoleonic forces and was admired for his leadership and bravery.

Theodor Gomperz, Austrian philosopher and classical scholar, was born at Brno (Brünn).

Theodor Richard Edward von Holst was a nineteenth-century British literary painter.

Theodor Eduard Pleske was a Russian entomologist and ornithologist who worked at the museum of zoology at St. Petersburg.

Theodor "Thore" Magnus Fries, was a Swedish botanist, lichenologist, and Arctic explorer. He was the son of the mycologist Elias Fries.