Hugo (name)

Hugo is a surname and male given name of Germanic origin Hugo, meaning "Bright in Mind and Spirit" or "intelligence". The English spelling is Hugh.

Hugo is one of the most popular given names in Europe, ranking as high as #9 in Spain, and #8 in Belgium in 2006. April 28 is the name day of Hugo.

People

Hugo as a surname

• Theodore Hugo (?-1781), French Clockmaker and instrument maker part of the 1735 French Geodesic Mission to Ecuador to determine the true shape of the earth.
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French writer, statesman and human rights activist
• Chad Hugo (born 1974), American musician and record producer
• Charles Hugo (disambiguation)
• Francis Hugo (1870–1930), American politician
• Gustav Hugo (1764–1844), German jurist
• Jean Hugo (1894–1984), French painter, illustrator, theatre designer and author
• Jean Hugo (golfer) (born 1975), South African golfer

Hugo as a given name

• Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960), Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter
• Hugo Black (1886–1971), US Supreme Court Justice
• Hugo (musician) (born Hugo Chakrabongse Levy in 1981), Thai-British singer-songwriter
• Hugo Chávez (born 1954), Venezuelan president
• Hugo Corro (1953–2007), Argentinian boxer
• Hugo Duarte (born 1968), Brazilian mixed martial artist
• Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), German airship commander
• Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948), German fashion designer
• Hugo Fernández Artucio (born c. 1910s), Uruguayan academic and activist
• Hugo Fernández Faingold (fl. c. 2000), Uruguayan politician
• Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), Hungarian-born artist
• Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), American science-fiction publisher
• Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), Dutch forefather of international law theory
• Hugo Henrique Assis do Nascimento (born 1980), Brazilian footballer
• Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), German aircraft designer
• Hugo de Lantins (fl. 1420–'30), French-Flemish composer
• Hugo Launicke (1909–1975), German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
• Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009), Swiss writer
• Hugo of Ostia (died 1158), French religious leader
• Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz (1853–1932), Prussian pharmacist
• Hugo Pratt (1927–1995), Italian comic book creator
• Hugo Reid (1809 - 1852), Scottish rancher and ethnographer
• Hugo Rodallega (born 1985), Colombian footballer
• Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born 1958), Mexican footballer
• Hugo Schmeisser (1884–1953), German weapons designer
• Hugo Sofovich (1939–2003), Argentine filmmaker
• Hugo Sperrle (1885–1953), German field marshal
• Hugo Veloso Oliveira Silva (born 1984), Brazilian footballer
• Hugo Viana (born 1982), Brazilian mixed martial artist
• Hugo Vieira (born 1976), Portuguese footballer
• Hugo Weaving (born 1960), Australian actor
• Hugo White (born 1986), British Musician- The Maccabees
• Hugo Young (1938–2003), British journalist

Fictional Hugos

• Hugo Cabret, protagonist of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and film adaptation Hugo
• Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, a main character in the television show Lost
• Jungledyret Hugo, the main character in a Danish children's movie series and a TV show
• Hugo Weasley, the son of Ron Weasley and Hermione Weasley (née Granger) in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Hugo Drax, villain in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Moonraker
• Hugo Quarry, a character in the Robert Harris novel The Fear Index
• Hugo (Street Fighter)
• Hugo (Suikoden III)
• Hugo (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
• Hugo the Abominable Snowman, a minor enemy of Bugs Bunny, loosely based on the yeti legend
• Hugo, the protagonist from Hugo's House of Horrors, Whodunit?, and Jungle of Doom
• Hugo, a gargoyle supporting character from the 1996 Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Hugo, minor villain and Ring member from the TV show Chuck (TV Series)