The island is named after Brent Clements Rodd, who had a long association with the island and the local area.
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Despite being a solicitor, Rodd managed neither to purchase the island, nor to have his deposit refunded.
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Major General Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell KBE CB JP (25 October 1895 – 15 March 1978) was the second but eldest surviving son of the diplomat James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell.
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Rodd would later make two great expeditions into the central Sahara (in 1922 and 1927) which provided him for the material of his book about the Tuareg, entitled People of the Veil.
C. (Lewis Charles) Rodd (1905 - 1979) was the husband of novelist Kylie Tennant.
Gloria Rodd, married the painter Simon Elwes, by whom she had a four sons, including the portrait painter Dominick Elwes, whose own son is the actor Cary Elwes.
The Rodd family, who lived on the western shore of Iron Cove in what is now the suburb of Rodd Point, used the island for recreation.
Son of Morris On is an electric folk album released in 1976 under the joint names of Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol, John Tams, Phil Picket, Michael Gregory, Dave Mattacks, Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy, John Watchem, John Rodd, The Albion Morris Men, Ian Cutler, and the Adderbury Village Morris Men.
Thomas Rodd (1763–1822) was an English bookseller, antiquarian and Hispanist; Rodd purchased some Greek manuscripts for the British Museum (e.g. codices: Minuscule 272, Minuscule 498).
Uvedale Tomkins Price was the younger son of Robert Price, Baron of the Exchequer, by his wife Lucy Rodd, heiress of the Foxley estate at Yazor in Herefordshire.