Bodo Spranz (1 January 1920 – 1 September 2007) was a German researcher of preclassic meso-American history and director of the ethnological museum in Freiburg.

With the approval of the Bremen Senate he could study ethnology, folklore and history at the University of Hamburg, without neglecting his museum duties.

Professor Franz Termer supervised him in pre-Columbian America and presented him a dissertation topic in this direction.

In 1958 he received his doctorate in Hamburg with the thesis "The Codex Borgia; studies the iconography of a Mexican picture manuscript in the Vatican Library in Rome."

On 1 June 1962 he became the full-time director of the ethnological museum in Freiburg.