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