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 Heard II, American football player
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

Rod (given name)

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