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- Edward Bodkin, an American cutter
- Matt Bodkin (born 1968), an English football player
- Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (1850-1933), an Irish MP, author, journalist, newspaper editor, barrister (K.C.) and judge
- Maud Bodkin (1875-1967), a British classical scholar
- Odds Bodkin (born 1953), an American storyteller
- Tom Bodkin, an American newspaper designer
- Monty Bodkin, a fictional character in novels of P. G. Wodehouse
- John Bodkin Adams (1899-1983), a British doctor and suspected serial killer
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