title: Rod (given name)
text: # Rod (given name)
  
  Rod is a common diminutive (hypocorism) of various masculine given names, including Rodney, Roderick, Rodford and Rodion.
  
  It may refer to:
  
  * Rod Allen (born 1959), American baseball player and commentator
  * Rod Allen (advertising executive) (1929–2007), nicknamed the "jingle king"
  * Rod Bernard (1940–2020), American singer
  * Rod Blagojevich (born 1956), American politician
  * Rod Bonella (1937–2000), Australian long-distance runner and horse trainer
  * Rod Brind'Amour (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player
  * Rod Brown (born 1978), American basketball player
  * Rod Brown (gridiron football) (born 1963), American former football player
  * Rod Cameron (actor) (1910–1983), Canadian film and television actor born Nathan Roderick Cox
  * Rod Cameron (footballer) (born 1939), English former footballer
  * Rod Daniel (1942–2016), American film director
  * Rod Davies (1930–2015), British astronomer
  * Rod Davis (gridiron football) (born 1981), American National Football League and Canadian Football League linebacker
  * Rod Davis (sailor) (born 1955), American-born Olympic sailor who competed for the United States and New Zealand
  * Rod Davis (Quarrymen), member of the British skiffle and rock 'n' roll group The Quarrymen
  * Rod Dyachenko (born 1983), Russian association football player
  * Rod Fergusson (born 1968), Canadian video game producer
  * Rod Foster (born 1960), American basketball player
  * Rod Gilbert (1941–2021), Canadian-American ice hockey player
  * Rod Hardy, Australian television and film director
  * Rod Hay (born 1947), English-born filmmaker
  * Rod Johnson (footballer) (1945–2019), English retired football player
  * Rod Johnson (programmer), founder of the Spring Framework, an open source application framework for Java
  * Rod Jones (disambiguation), multiple people
  * Rod Macqueen (born 1949), Australian former rugby union coach
  * Rod Mandelstam (born 1942), South African tennis player
  * Rod Manuel (born 1974), American football player
  * Rod McKuen (1933–2015), American singer-songwriter, composer and poet
  * Rod Robinson (born 1976), American football player
  * Rod Roddenberry (born 1974), American television producer and writer
  * Rod Roddy (1937–2003), American radio and television announcer
  * Rod Serling (1924–1975), American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, host and narrator
  * Rod Smallwood (disambiguation), multiple people
  * Rod Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
  * Rod Steiger (1925–2002), American actor
  * Rod Stewart (born 1945), British rock musician
  * Rod Thorn (born 1941), American basketball player, coach, and executive
  * Rod Tolbert (born 1967), American former sprinter
  * Rod Wave (born 1999), American rapper
  