Dagobert

Dagobert
Gender	Male

Dagobert is a male given name, possibly from Old Frankish dag "day" and beraht "bright". Alternatively, the first element has been identified as Gaulish dago "good".

Animals

• Roi Dagobert (born 1964), Thoroughbred racehorse

People

• Dagobert (4th century), part of the Carl Christopher/Christoffersson Springer Hoax
• Dagobert I (603–639), Frankish King
• Dagobert II (650–679), Frankish King
• Dagobert III (699–715), Frankish King
• Dagobert of Pisa (died 1105), Archbishop of Pisa and first Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert (1736–1794), French general
• Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (1865–1949), German geographer, born in Königsberg
• Dagobert Peche (1887–1923), Austrian artist and metalworker designer
• Dagobert Biermann (1904–1943), Resistance fighter against the Nazis
• Pere Dagobert, Capuchin monk
• Dagobert D. Runes, philosopher, translator, and friend of Albert Einstein

Popular culture

• Dagobert IX, a Galactic Emperor in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire
• The German, Dutch and Hungarian name of Disney character Scrooge McDuck
  • hence, the pseudonym of extortionist Arno Funke
• In Swedish, the cartoon character Dagwood Bumstead is named "Dagobert Krikelin"
• The song Le bon roi Dagobert, named after Dagobert I
• Dagobert, name of the dog in the French translation of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five books (Timmy in the original)