Ingo is a masculine

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in contemporary

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, and a historical name in

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. It is the male version of the name

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Yngvi Old Norse Yngvi , Old High German Ing/Ingwi and Old English Ingƿine are names that relate to a theonym which appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr. Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz was the legendary ancestor of the Ingaevones, or more acc ...

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Ingvaeones The Ingaevones were a West Germanic cultural group living in the Northern Germania along the North Sea coast in the areas of Jutland, Holstein, and Frisia in classical antiquity. Tribes in this area included the Angles, Frisii, Chauci, Saxons, ...

, and is probably a different name for the Germanic god

Freyr Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with kingship, fertility, peace, and weather. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden an ...

Persons with the name Ingo

Ingemar Johansson Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson (; 22 September 1932 – 30 January 2009) was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960, and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside ...

(1932-2009), Swedish boxer, nicknamed "Ingo" * Ingo Anderbrügge (born 1964), German footballer * Ingo Appelt (born 1961), German former bobsledder * Ingo Appelt (born 1967), German comedian * Ingo Brigandt, Canadian philosopher * Ingo Bodtke (born 1965), German politician *

Ingo Buding Ingo Dietmar Buding (9 January 1942 – 13 March 2003) was a West German tennis player. His sisters Edda "Edda" (; Old Norse ''Edda'', plural ''Eddur'') is an Old Norse term that has been attributed by modern scholars to the collective of two ...

(1942-2003), German tennis player * Ingo Freyer (born 1971), German professional basketball coach and former national team player *

Ingo Gerhartz Ingo Gerhartz (born 9 December 1965) is a German Air Force ''generalleutnant'' (the equivalent of lieutenant general in other countries). He has been serving as the Inspector of the Air Force . Gerhartz travelled to Australia for the start of ...

(born 1965), German Air Force general *

Ingo Giezendanner Ingo Giezendanner (born 1975) is a painter and installation artist and member of the Kroesos Foundation. He lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. Since 1998, Ingo Giezendanner, alias GRRRR, has been documenting the urban spaces in which ...

(born 1975), Swiss artist *

Ingo Hoffmann Ingo Hoffmann (born February 28, 1953) is a Brazilian retired racing driver from São Paulo. He is most well known for winning the Brazilian Stock Car Championship 12 times (1980, 1985, 1989-1994, 1996-1998 and 2002). He also participated in si ...

(born 1953), Brazilian former race car driver * Ingo Maurer (1932–2019), German industrial designer *

Ingo Metzmacher Ingo Metzmacher (born 10 November 1957 in Hanover) is a German conductor and artistic director of the festival KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover. Life Ingo Metzmacher is the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher and the research biolo ...

(born 1957), German music conductor *

Ingo Molnár Ingo Molnár, employed by Red Hat as of May 2013, is a Hungarian Linux hacker. He is known for his contributions to the operating system in terms of security and performance. Life and career Molnár studied at Eötvös Loránd University. Wo ...

, Hungarian computer programmer *

Ingo Mörth Ingo Mörth (born May 1, 1949, in Grades/ Austria) is an Austrian sociologist. Biography Ingo Mörth studied 1968-1976 business administration and sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) and achieved his PhD in sociology there ...

(born 1949), Austrian sociologist * Ingo Nugel (1976-2007), German composer of video game music *

Ingo Preminger Ingwald "Ingo" Preminger (25 February 1911 – 7 June 2006) was a film producer. He was also the literary agent for several writers, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era. He was the br ...

(1911-2006), American movie producer, brother of director Otto Preminger *

Ingo Rademacher Ingo Rademacher (born 22 April 1971) is a German-Australian television actor best known for his role of Jasper "Jax" Jacks on the American daytime soap opera ''General Hospital'', which he played almost continuously from 1996 to 2021. In 2012, ...

(born 1971), German-born Australian actor *

Ingo Rechenberg Ingo Rechenberg (November 20, 1934 - September 25, 2021) was a German researcher and professor in the field of bionics. Rechenberg was a pioneer of the fields of evolutionary computation and artificial evolution. In the 1960s and 1970s he invente ...

(1934–2021), German researcher and professor currently in the field of bionics *

Ingo Renner Ingo Renner OAM (1 June 1940 – 26 February 2022) was an Australian glider pilot. He won the World Gliding Championships four times.

(1940–2022), Australian glider pilot, four-time world champion * Ingo Schmitt (), German politician *

Ingo Schulze Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until German reunification, was an assistant director (dramatic arts a ...

(born 1962), German author *

Ingo Schwichtenberg Ingo "Mr. Smile" Schwichtenberg (18 May 1965 – 8 March 1995) was a German drummer and one of the founding members of the power metal band Helloween. Biography Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow said about Schwichtenberg in an interview 1999: ...

(1965-1995), German rock drummer * Ingo Simon (1875–1964), British singer and archer * Ingo Steinhöfel (born 1967), German former weightlifter *

Ingo Steuer Ingo Steuer (born 1 November 1966) is a German pair skater and skating coach. With Mandy Wötzel, he is the 1998 Olympic bronze medalist, the 1997 World champion, the 1995 European champion, and a four-time German national champion. As a c ...

(born 1966), German figure skater and coach * Ingo Swann (1933-2013), American psychic *

Ingo Titze Ingo R. Titze is a voice scientist and executive director of the National Center for Voice and Speech and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He also teaches at t ...

, American vocal scientist *

Ingo Wegener Ingo Wegener (December 4, 1950 in Bremen – November 26, 2008 in Bielefeld) was an influential German computer scientist working in the field of theoretical computer science. Education and career Wegener was educated at the Bielefeld University. ...

(1950-2008), German computer scientist * Ingo Wellenreuther (born 1959), German politician *

Ingo Zamperoni Ingo Antonio Zamperoni (born May 3, 1974, in Wiesbaden, West Germany) is a German news presenter and journalist. Between 2012 and 2014, he was the presenter of the ''Tagesthemen'' news magazine on the Das Erste channel, a role he continued in Oct ...

(born 1974), German news presenter

Fictional characters

*Ingo, an associate of

Talon Talon or talons may refer to: Science and technology * Talon (anatomy), the claw of a bird of prey * Brodifacoum, a rodenticide, also known as the brand Talon * TALON (database), a database maintained by the US Air Force * Talon, an anti-vehicle- ...

in ''The Legend of Zelda'' series *Ingo, the missing Subway Boss in ''Pokémon Black'' and ''White'' and ''Pokémon Legends: Arceus'' *Ingo Manfred, a main character in the ''Broken Sky'' trilogy by L. A. Weatherly.

Literature

* ''Ingo'' (novel), a 2005 children's novel by Helen Dunmore

Persons with the name Ingo

Fictional characters

Literature

See also