Hugo

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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 #5 in France, #12 in Spain, #9 in Sweden, and #11 in Belgium in 2005.

Among well-known people or other entities called Hugo are:

[edit] People

• Hugo Sánchez, coach of the Mexico national football team
• Hugh of St Victor, also known as Hugo of St. Victor
• Hugo Banzer, former president of Bolivia
• Hugo Chávez, President of Venezula
• Hugo Gernsback, inventor, early publisher and writer of science fiction
• Hugo Simberg, Finnish painter
• Hugo Wolf, Australian late Romantic music composer
• Hugo Weaving, a Nigerian-born Australian film and stage actor
• Master Hugo, an English metalworker and illuminator
• Victor Hugo, a French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[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.

[edit] 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