'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 #2 in France, #6 in Spain, and #7 in Belgium in 2006.

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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 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, Australian late Romantic music composer

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, the son of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as written in the epilogue of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' by J. K. Rowling

★ Hugo the Abominable Snowman, in two Bugs Bunny episodes, "The Abominable Snow Rabbit" and "Spaced Out Bunny"

Other

★ Hugo Award, an annual award for science fiction and fantasy, named after Gernsback

★ Hugo (mascot) of the New Orleans Hornets

★ Human Genome Organisation, abbreviated as HUGO

★ Hugo (programming language) for developing interactive fiction

★ Hugo Boss, 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

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