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Oluf Pedersen (physician-scientist)
Oluf Pedersen, born 1945, is a Danish physician-scientist and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for the Steno-2 trial, which changed type 2 diabetes treatment worldwide, and for gut microbiome research.
Olufemi Oluyede
Olufemi Olatubosun Oluyede (born 1968) is a Nigerian Army general, Chief of Defence Staff since 30 October 2025, formerly 24th Chief of Army Staff, infantry officer of the 39th Regular Course.
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is a Nigerian-born philosopher and Professor of African Political Thought at Cornell University, known for his 2022 critique of academic decolonisation, Against Decolonisation.
Olufunmilayo Olopade
Olufunmilayo Olopade is a Nigerian-born American oncologist and geneticist at the University of Chicago known for research on breast cancer genetics in women of African ancestry.
Olugbenga Agboola
Olugbenga "GB" Agboola is a Nigerian engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the payments company Flutterwave in 2016 and has served as its chief executive officer since 2018.
Oluksak (crater on Callisto)
Oluksak is a 63.5 km impact crater on Callisto at 86.7°N, 47.8°W, named for an Eskimo god of lakes and IAU-approved in 1997; it lies in the size range of Callisto's central pit craters.
Olumacostat glasaretil
Olumacostat glasaretil (formerly DRM01) is a topical acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitor pro-drug developed by Dermira to cut sebum in acne; Phase 3 trials CLAREOS-1 and CLAREOS-2 missed endpoints in 2018 and development was discontinued.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Olusegun Obasanjo, born in 1937 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, is a retired army general who served as military Head of State (1976–1979) and as elected President (1999–2007).
Olutasidenib
Olutasidenib (Rezlidhia) is an oral mutant IDH1 inhibitor approved by the FDA in December 2022 for relapsed or refractory AML with a susceptible IDH1 mutation, dosed 150 mg twice daily, with 35% CR+CRh and a boxed warning for differentiation syndrome.
Oluwafemi Oladejo
Oluwafemi (Femi) Oladejo, Nigerian-American edge rusher from Cal and UCLA; Titans' No. 52 pick of the 2025 NFL draft; converted linebacker who led UCLA with 13.5 TFL and 4.5 sacks in 2024.
Oluwasanmi Koyejo
Oluwasanmi (Sanmi) Koyejo is a computer scientist and neuroscientist who is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Oluwaseun Adewumi
Oluwaseun Victor Adewumi, known as Seun Adewumi, is an Austrian attacking midfielder and forward born in Lagos in 2005 who plays for Hertha BSC on loan from Burnley.
Oluyole
Oluyole (Olúyọ̀lé) was a nineteenth-century Yoruba war-chief of Ibadan who held the titles of Baale of Ibadan and Basorun of the rebuilt Oyo Empire.
Oluz Höyük
Oluz Höyük, locally known as Yassı Höyük, is a settlement mound in Amasya Province, north-central Turkey, excavated since 2007 and known for its Iron Age Phrygian and Persian levels.
Olvassuo Mires
Olvassuo Mires (Finnish: Olvassuo) is a large, mostly pristine aapa mire complex in northern Finland, designated a Ramsar site in 2004 and known as a breeding ground for mire birds.
Olvera Street
Olvera Street is a block-long pedestrian Mexican marketplace in El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, downtown Los Angeles, opened Easter Sunday 1930 through Christine Sterling's campaign; home of the 1818 Avila Adobe.
Olverembatinib
Olverembatinib (奥雷巴替尼, Henglike, HQP1351, formerly GZD824) is an oral third-generation BCR-ABL1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor for T315I-mutated and TKI-resistant CML, approved in China since November 2021 and in global phase 3 development.
Olvimulogene nanivacirepvec
Olvimulogene nanivacirepvec (Olvi-Vec, GL-ONC1, GLV-1h68) is Genelux's investigational oncolytic vaccinia virus (LIVP strain) with reporter-gene insertions, tested in over 150 patients; lead program is phase 3 ovarian cancer (OnPrime/GOG-3076) plus phase 2 NSCLC.
Olwen Corona
Olwen Corona is a 175-km-wide corona on Venus at 37.5°N, 67.5°E, IAU-named in 1994 after the Brythonic goddess of spring growth, one of hundreds of ring-shaped volcanic-tectonic features on the planet.
Olwen Fouéré
Olwen Fouéré is an Irish actor, writer, and director born in 1954 in Galway. She is known for her experimental work, including the solo piece riverrun.
OLX
OLX, also known as OLX Group, is a global network of free online classifieds marketplaces owned by the technology investor Prosus and founded in Argentina in 2006.
OLY
OLY is a post-nominal title created by the World Olympians Association in November 2017, letting athletes who competed at an Olympic Summer or Winter Games add OLY after their name, like PhD; the Paralympic equivalent is PLY.
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum is a Beninese novelist, short-story writer, and journalist born in Ouidah in the late 1920s, best known for his first novel Un piège sans fin (1960).
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (Marie Gouze, 1748–1793) was a French playwright and pamphleteer, author of the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and the antislavery play L'Esclavage des Nègres; she was the only woman executed for her political writings during the French Revolution.
Olympia
Olympia, Greece: ancient sanctuary of Zeus in the western Peloponnese and birthplace of the Olympic Games, held every four years from 776 BC to 393 AD; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1989, excavated by Germany since 1875.
Olympia (1938 film)
Olympia (1938), also Fest der Völker and Fest der Schönheit, is Leni Riefenstahl's two-part documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Propaganda Ministry-funded, technically pioneering, and enduringly controversial as Nazi propaganda.
Olympia (Manet)
Olympia (1863) is Édouard Manet's oil painting of a courtesan staring at the viewer, based on Titian's Venus of Urbino, scandalous at the 1865 Salon, now at the Musée d'Orsay.
Olympia Cavi
Olympia Cavi: rugged, coalesced depressions (cavi) on Mars's north polar region, within Olympia Planum near Planum Boreum. IAU-approved 2006; 860 km extent; exposes Amazonian polar layered deposits.
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis (1931–2021), American Greek-American stage and screen actress, won the 1988 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Moonstruck as Rose Castorini, cofounded the Whole Theater, played Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City, and published the memoir Ask Me Again Tomorrow.
Olympia London
Olympia London, opened 1886 as the National Agricultural Hall, is a West Kensington exhibition centre now redeveloped in a £1.3 billion Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC project into an entertainment destination with the British Airways ARC music venue, hotels, offices, and a 1,575-seat theatre opening 2027.