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 sports analyst and former baseball player
• Rod Allen (advertising executive) (1929-2007), nicknamed the "jingle king"
• Rod Blagojevich (born 1956), American politician
• 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 (born 1942), 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 Hardy, Australian television and film director
• Rod Hay (born 1947), English-born filmmaker
• Rod Johnson (footballer) (born 1945), 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 Manuel (born 1974), American football player
• Rod McKuen (1933-2015), American singer-songwriter, composer and poet
• Rod Robinson (born 1976), professional football player
• Rod Smallwood (disambiguation), multiple people
• Rod Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
• Rod Steiger (1925–2002), American actor
• Rod Stewart (born 1945), British rock musician
• Rod Serling, American screenwriter, playwright, television producer and narrator best known for the series The Twilight Zone
• Rod Taylor (American football) (born 1994), American football player
• Rod Thorn (born 1941), American basketball executive and former National Basketball Association player and coach
• Rod Tolbert (born 1967), American former sprinter