title: Odon
text: # Odon
  
  Odon may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Odo of Gascony (French: Odon) (c. 1010–1039/1040), Duke of Gascony, Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou
  * Odon de Bénac, Bishop of Oloron in France from 1083 to 1101
  * Odon de Châtillon (died c. 1102), French cardinal
  * Odon of Poznań (1149–1194), Duke of Greater Poland and of Kalisz
  * Odon or Eudes de Sully (died 1208), Bishop of Paris
  * Odon de Pins (1212–1296), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  * Odón Alonso (1925–2011), Spanish conductor and composer
  * Odon Bacqué, American politician and non-fiction writer
  * Odón Betanzos Palacios (1925–2007), Spanish poet, novelist, literary critic and professor
  * Odón de Buen y del Cos (1863–1945), Spanish naturalist, politician and publicist
  * Odo Bujwid (1857–1942), Polish bacteriologist sometimes referred to as Odon Budwid
  * Odón Elorza (born 1955), Basque politician
  * Odon Godart (1913–1996), Belgian astronomer and meteorologist
  * Odon Guitar (1825–1908), Union Missouri State Militia brigadier general during the American Civil War
  * Odon Jadot (1884–1968) was a Belgian railway engineer and administrator who built more than 1,650 kilometres of railroad in the Belgian Congo
  * Odon Razanakolona (born 1946), Archbishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar
  * Ödön, a masculine given name of Hungarian origin, including a list of people so named
  
  ## Places
  
  * Odon (Lydia), a town of ancient Lydia, now in Turkey
  * Odon (river), France
  * Odón, Aragon, Spain, a municipality
  * Odon, Indiana, United States, a town
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Separate Operational Purpose Division (ODON), a Russian rapid deployment, internal security division
  * Operation Epsom (or the First Battle of the Odon) and the Second Battle of the Odon, both of which took place on the Odon River
  * Odón Device, invented by Jorge Odón, which is used to assist in difficult child birth
  * "-odon", a suffix used in taxonomy
  