Hugo

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Hugo Given Name
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Hugo is a male given name, a latinized form of the name Hugh, a German/Teutonic name meaning "Bright in Mind and Spirit".

Hugo is one of the most popular names in Europe ranking as high as #6 in Spain, and #7 in Belgium in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 People 2 Fictional characters 3 Place 4 Other

[edit] People

Among well-known people called Hugo are:

• Victor Hugo, a French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Hugh of St Victor, also known as Hugo of St. Victor, 12th century mystic philosopher
• Hugo Banzer, Bolivian president
• Hugo Black, American Supreme Court justice
• Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan president
• Hugo Garay, Argentine boxer
• Hugo Gernsback, inventor, early publisher and writer of science fiction
• Hugo Girard, French Canadian strongman competitor.
• Hugo Grotius, Dutch "Father of International Law"
• Hugo Sánchez, coach of the Mexico national football team, former striker
• Hugo Simberg, Finnish painter
• Hugo Viart, French freestyle swimmer
• Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born Australian film and stage actor
• Hugo Wolf, Austrian late Romantic music composer
• Bobby Hugo, "St Petersburg, Fl" Game Designer/Developer

[edit] Fictional characters

• Hugo (Street Fighter), a giant pro-wrestler character in the video game Street Fighter III
• Hugo (Suikoden III), one of the leading characters in the video game Suikoden III
• Hugo Strange, nemesis of Batman
• Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the ABC television series Lost played by Jorge García
• Hugo (A Series of Unfortunate Events), a character in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events book
• Hugo (troll), the main character in several interactive television shows and video games
• Jungledyret Hugo, the main character in a Danish children's movie series and TV show
• Hugo Simpson, Bart's conjoined twin in the episode "Treehouse of Horror VII" of The Simpsons
• Hugo Weasley, a character from the novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Hugo the Abominable Snowman, in two Bugs Bunny episodes, "The Abominable Snow Rabbit" and "Spaced Out Bunny"
• In German the South Park Character 'Starvin Marvin' is called 'Hungrige Hugo'

[edit] Place

• Hugo, Colorado
• Hugo, Oklahoma
• Hugo, Minnesota

[edit] Other

• Hugo (asteroid)
• Hugo Award, an annual award for science fiction and fantasy, named after Gernsback
• Hugo (mascot) of the New Orleans Hornets
• Hugo (puppet), children's toy puppet from the late 1960s-early 1970s with a variety of disguises.
• Human Genome Organisation, abbreviated as HUGO
• Hugo (programming language) for developing interactive fiction
• Hugo Boss AG, a clothing label named after its founder
• Hugo's House of Horrors, a series of text-and-graphics adventure games made in the early '90s
• Hurricane Hugo, a major hurricane in September 1989
• HUGO!, a song from the Too Much Joy album Cereal Killers