Bodkin

• One of the fourteen Tribes of Galway
• A bodkin point, a type of arrowhead
• A dagger or stiletto knife
• A sharp slender instrument for making holes in cloth or a blunt needle with a large eye for drawing tape or ribbon through a loop or hem (see needle)
• A hairpin
• A progressive rock band formed in Scotland in the early seventies

People

• 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
• Bodkin, a man character from Rupert (TV series) in 1991 on "Rupert And The Twilight Fan" episode
• Bodkin, title character of novel, Bodkin, by Bart Midwood (Random House, 1967)
• Monty Bodkin, a fictional character in novels of P. G. Wodehouse
• John Bodkin Adams (1899-1983), a British doctor and suspected serial killer