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Otto Bauer

Otto Bauer (1881–1938), Austrian Social Democratic politician and Austromarxist theorist; foreign minister 1918–1919, SDAP deputy leader, author of the 1907 nationalities theory and the 1926 Linz Program; died in Paris exile.

Oct 20, 2026

Otto Becker

Otto Becker, born 1958 in Aschaffenburg, is a German show jumper who won Olympic team gold at Sydney 2000 and bronze at Athens 2004 riding Cento, and has been Germany's national show jumping coach (Bundestrainer) since 2009.

Otto Binswanger

Otto Binswanger (1852–1929) was a Swiss psychiatrist who directed the Jena psychiatric clinic from 1882 to 1919, treated Friedrich Nietzsche, and described Binswanger's disease in 1894.

Otto Boros

Otto Boros (Ottó Boros, "Api"), 1929–1988, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper; Olympic gold 1956 and 1964, bronze 1960, 101 caps, three European titles, Szolnoki Dózsa club legend.

Otto Carsten Krabbe

Otto Carsten Krabbe, also Otto Karsten Krabbe, was a German Lutheran theologian who served as professor of theology and university preacher at the University of Rostock from 1840.

Otto Christman

Otto Christman (Otto Lorne Christman, 1880-1963), Canadian midfielder with Galt FC who won gold in men's football at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics; later a Sherwin-Williams salesman in Orillia, Ontario.

Otto Cordes

Otto Cordes (1905–1970), German water polo player from Magdeburg's SC Hellas, won gold at Amsterdam 1928 and silver at Los Angeles 1932, then settled in Brazil; father of Brazilian sailing medalist Burkhard Cordes.

Otto cycle

The Otto cycle is the air-standard thermodynamic cycle modeling spark-ignition engines, named after Nicolaus Otto, whose 1876 engine first ran successfully on the four-stroke cycle.

Otto Diels

Otto Paul Hermann Diels (1876–1954) was a German organic chemist at Kiel University who shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kurt Alder for the diene synthesis.

Oct 22, 2026

Otto Dix

Otto Dix, full name Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix, was a German painter and printmaker known for unsparing depictions of war and a leading New Objectivity figure.

Otto E. Neugebauer

Otto E. Neugebauer (1899–1990) was an Austrian-born American historian of the exact sciences who created the modern study of ancient Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics and astronomy, winning the 1986 Balzan Prize.

Otto Ernst

Otto Ernst was the pen name of Otto Ernst Schmidt (1862–1926), a Hamburg schoolteacher turned writer whose 1900 comedy Flachsmann als Erzieher satirized the authoritarian German schoolmaster.

Otto Ernst Remer

Otto Ernst Remer (1912–1997), Wehrmacht general and commander of the Berlin Guard Battalion during the 20 July 1944 plot; postwar co-founder of the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party, convicted defamer of the resistance, and Holocaust denier who died in Spanish exile.

Otto Fahr

Otto Fahr (1892-1969), German backstroke swimmer of SV Cannstatt, Stuttgart; 1912 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 m backstroke and 1912 world record holder at 1:15.6 (100 m) and 2:48.4 (200 m).

Otto Falkenberg

Otto Gabriel Grubbe Dietrichson Falkenberg (1885–1977), Norwegian sailor, KNS Oslo member; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 10 metre class aboard Mosk II, the only entered yacht; later sentenced in the 1947 legal purge.

Sep 19, 2026

Otto family

The Otto family is a Hamburg-based business family that owns the Otto Group, a retail group founded by Werner Otto in 1949, and the shopping-center developer ECE.

Otto Farrant

Otto Farrant (born 1996, Hammersmith, London) is an English actor, star of the TV series Alex Rider (2020–2024), also known for War & Peace, The White Queen, Mrs. Wilson, and stage work from age 11.

Otto Fickeisen

Otto Fickeisen (1879–1963), German rower of Ludwigshafener Ruderverein; bronze in coxed fours at Paris 1900 and gold in coxed fours, outriggers, at Stockholm 1912 with brother Rudolf; unbeaten coxless pair with Hermann Wilker.

Otto Fischer (German chemist)

Otto Fischer (Otto Philipp Fischer) was a German chemist who held the chemistry chair at the University of Erlangen from 1885 to 1925 and worked on organic dyestuffs.

Otto Folin

Otto Folin, full name Otto Knut Olof Folin, was a Swedish-born American biochemist at Harvard Medical School who pioneered quantitative clinical chemistry and the Folin–Wu blood analysis system.

Otto Forster

Otto Forster, born 1937 in Munich, is a German mathematician and emeritus professor at LMU Munich known for Riemann surfaces, algorithmic number theory, and his Analysis textbook series.

Otto Frank

Otto Frank, also known as Pim Frank, was a German-born Jewish businessman in Amsterdam, father of Anne Frank and first publisher of her diary in 1947.

Otto Frank (physiologist)

Otto Frank (1865–1944) was a German physiologist whose name is attached to the Frank–Starling law of the heart; he was professor of physiology in Munich until 1934.

Otto Frankel

Sir Otto Frankel (1900–1998) was a Vienna-born plant geneticist who worked in New Zealand and Australia and became a founder of the international movement to conserve crop genetic diversity.

Otto Graham

Otto Graham (Otto Everett Graham Jr., 1921-2003), "Automatic Otto," quarterback for the Cleveland Browns 1946-55; won seven championships in ten seasons, retired with a .814 winning percentage and the career yards-per-attempt record.

Otto Günsche

Otto Günsche, Waffen-SS Sturmbannführer and Hitler's last personal adjutant, carried out Hitler's order to burn the Führer's body on 30 April 1945, spent 11 years in Soviet captivity, testified in West Germany, and was never tried at Nuremberg.

Otto H. Schade

Otto H. Schade (1903–1981) was a German-born American television engineer and imaging scientist who spent his career at RCA, known for developing the modulation transfer function concept.

Otto Hagenbüchle

Otto Hagenbüchle is a molecular biologist whose 1980 to 1985 papers on mouse α-amylase genes established how a single gene produces different mRNAs in different tissues.

Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn was a German radiochemist who, with Fritz Strassmann, discovered nuclear fission in 1938, winning the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and later campaigning against nuclear weapons.