Othmar

Othmar, also spelled Otmar or Ottmar, is a masculine German given name, derived from the Germanic name Audamar, from the elements aud "wealth, prosperity" and mar "fame".

Notable people with the name include:

• Saint Othmar, medieval monk and priest
• Othmar Ammann (1879–1965), Swiss-American structural engineer
• Otmar Emminger (1911–1986), German economist
• Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (1896-1969), German-Dutch human biologist and geneticist
• Otmar Hasler (born 1953), Prime Minister of Lichtenstein (2001–2009)
• Ottmar Hörl, German conceptual artist, sculptor, installation, action, photography, and object artist
• Ottmar Hitzfeld (born 1949), German football player and manager
• Otmar Issing (born 1936), German economist
• Othmar Karas (born 1957), Austrian politician
• Ottmar Liebert (born 1959), German guitarist, songwriter and producer
• Ottmar Luscinius (1487–1537), German humanist
• Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899), German-American inventor
• Othmar Muller von Blumencorn, Swiss sailor
• Othmar Reiser (1861–1936), Austrian ornithologist
• Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957), Swiss composer
• Othmar Spann (1878–1950), Austrian philosopher
• Otmar Szafnauer (born 1964), American businessman
• Othmar Zeidler (1850–1911), Austrian chemist

Fictional characters

• King Ottmar in the Legacy of Kain series
• Miss Othmar, the unseen teacher with a voice that is the sound of teaching from Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts

See also

• Ottomar
• Omar (name)
• Otto
• Ademar
• Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal, published Volcks-Sagen (1800) under the name Otmar