Aku (given name)

Aku is a given name, a Finnish version of the name Augustus. Notable people with the name include:

• Aku Alho (born 1997), Finnish ice hockey player
• Aku Hirviniemi (born 1983), Finnish actor
• Aku Kadogo, American choreographer, director, actress, and educator
• Aku Kauste (born 1979), Finnish curler
• Aku Kestilä (born 1994), Finnish ice hockey player
• August "Aku" Kiuru (1922–2009), Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist
• Aku Korhonen (1892–1960), Finnish actor
• Aku Louhimies (born 1968), Finnish film director and screenwriter
• Aku Päiviö (1879–1967), Finnish Canadian journalist, poet and socialist
• Aku Partanen (born 1991), Finnish racewalker
• Aku Pellinen (born 1993), Finnish racing driver

Fictional characters

• Aku Ankka, (Finnish for Donald Duck), a Finnish weekly Disney comics magazine
• Aku, the main antagonist of the whole Samurai Jack series