Octavio
Appearance
Octavio is a Spanish language masculine given name. In the Portuguese language the given name Octavio or Octávio is also found, but in Portuguese the normal spelling is Otávio. It is also used as a surname in the Philippines.
Individuals
[edit]- Octavio Dotel, Major League Baseball relief pitcher
- Octavio Paz Lozano, Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
- Octavio Ocampo, Mexican artist
- Octavio Vazquez, Spanish-American composer
- Octavio Zambrano, Ecuadorian soccer coach
- Octavio Lugo, American entrepreneur, founder of StormTek, banker, businessman
Portuguese and Brazilian
[edit]- Octávio Trompowsky, Brazilian chess player
- Marco Octávio informal name of Brazilian beach soccer coach
- Octávio Mateus, Portuguese paleontologist
Fictional
[edit]- A character in Scarface (1983 film)
- A character in Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
- List of characters in King of the Hill § Other recurring characters, a character in King of the Hill
- List of Sly Cooper characters § Octavio, a character from the video game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
- The final boss of Splatoon
- Octavio Silva, also known as Octane, a playable character in Apex Legends
- Octavio the Octopus, an octopus who appeared in The Owl and the Octopus episode of Jim Henson's Animal Show
Film and TV
[edit]- Octavio, a 1990 documentary by Camille de Casabianca
- Octavio, a 2011 film by José Antonio Torres
Other
[edit]- SD Octavio Vigo, a Spanish handball club based in Vigo, Galicia, Spain.
- The name given by Jimi Hendrix to an effects pedal used with electric guitars, invented by Jim Morris of Kelsey-Morris Sound, London. A later version was called an Octavia (effects pedal)
See also
[edit]- Octavo (disambiguation)
- Ottavio (disambiguation), the Italian equivalent of Octavio