Information About Ingo

Ingo: A first name in contemporary Scandinavia and Germany, and a historical name in France. It is the male version of the name Inga, used in the same region, and as a name for a tropical plant.

Ingo has a German origin.

Other forms of Ingo are Inge.

See also: Ing.

Famous People:
Fullname: Ingo Rademacher
Fame: Actor
Comment: Television actor best known for playing Jasper Jax Jacks on the daytime soap opera General Hospital. Ingo named his first born son Peanut Kai.

Fullname: Ingo Giezendanner
Fame: Painter
Comment: Painter, installation artist and member of the Kroesos Foundation. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.

Since 1998, Ingo Giezendanner, alias GRRRR, has been documenting the urban spaces in which he has travelled and lived. Apart from his native city of Zurich, his travels have taken him to diverse cities from New York and New Orleans to Cairo, Nairobi, Karachi and Colombo. Everywhere he travels, he captures his surroundings on location with pen on paper. His drawings have been presented in numerous magazines, books and animated films as well as in spacious installations and wallpaintings.

Stage Names:
Stage name: Ingo Preminger
Given name: Ingwald Preminger
Comment: Film producer and literary agent for several writers, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era. He was brother of actor-director-producer Otto Preminger.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1970 film M*A*S*H, the book of which had been sent to him by Lardner, and also produced The Salzburg Connection in 1972.

Ingo studied law and worked as a lawyer in Vienna before emigrating to the United States due to the rise of Nazism.