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Omar Aquino
Omar Aquino is an American Democratic politician from Chicago's Northwest Side who has represented the 2nd district in the Illinois Senate since 2016 and serves as Majority Caucus Chair.
Omar Artan
Omar Abdulkadir Artan (born 1992, Mogadishu) is a Somali FIFA referee since 2018, CAF Men's Referee of the Year 2025, first Somali at AFCON and a CAF Champions League final, denied US entry for the 2026 World Cup, then appointed 2026 UEFA Super Cup referee.
Omar Arteh Ghalib
Omar Arteh Ghalib (1930–2020) was a Somali statesman who served as the country's first foreign minister under Siad Barre and as prime minister of a transitional government.
Omar Ayuso
Omar Ayuso (born 1998, Madrid) is a Spanish actor and director known as Omar Shanaa in Netflix's Élite (2018–2024), and for Yo, adicto, Mariliendre, and El castillo.
Omar Azzaroni
Omar Azzaroni, born in 1974, is an Argentine chemist at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata known for supramolecular materials, polymer thin films, and solid-state nanopores.
Omar Berrada
Omar Berrada, Paris-born Moroccan executive, is Manchester United's CEO since July 2024, poached from Manchester City where he was COO and City Football Group's chief football operations officer after earlier roles at FC Barcelona.
Omar bin Laden (عمر بن لادن)
Omar bin Laden (عمر بن لادن), fourth eldest son of Osama bin Laden and Najwa Ghanem, trained in his father's camps from 14, left at 18, co-authored Growing Up bin Laden, and became a peace advocate and painter.
Omar Blanco
Omar Blanco is an American politician and firefighter who was first elected in 2024 as a Republican to the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 115.
Omar Bongo
Omar Bongo Ondimba (El Hadj Omar Bongo), born Albert-Bernard Bongo, was Gabon's second president, ruling 1967–2009, Africa's longest-serving leader, succeeded by son Ali Bongo, with wealth scrutinized in French Elf-related probes.
Omar Bradley
Omar Nelson Bradley (1893–1981), the "GI General," commanded II Corps, First Army, and the 12th Army Group in Europe, served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and became General of the Army in 1950.
Omar Cooper Jr.
Omar Cooper Jr., Indiana Hoosiers wide receiver, New York Jets first-round pick (30th overall, 2026 NFL Draft). 69 catches, 937 yards, 13 TDs in Indiana's 2025 national championship season; 4.42-second 40-yard dash.
Omar Courtz
Omar Courtz (Joshua Omar Medina Cortés, born 1997, Carolina, Puerto Rico), nicknamed Ousi, is a reggaeton, trap, and R&B singer. Debut album Primera Musa (2024) hit number 1 in Spain; he features on Bad Bunny's VeLDÁ and released Por Si Mañana No Estoy in 2026.
Omar Dantzler
Omar Dantzler is an American politician and lifelong Hammond, Louisiana resident, the Republican candidate for U.S. House in Louisiana's 5th District in 2026 after running for governor as a Democrat in 2019.
Omar Duterte
Omar Vincent Sangkola Duterte is a Filipino politician, grandson of Rodrigo Duterte and son of Paolo Duterte, representing Davao City's 2nd District in the House since 2025 after serving as a barangay chairperson.
Omar Epps
Omar Hashim Epps (born 1973, Brooklyn) is an American actor, rapper, and producer known as Q in Juice (1992), Dr. Eric Foreman on House (2004-2012), and Detective Howard on Power Book III: Raising Kanan; also a musician, author, and producer.
Omar F. Mohammed
Omar F. Mohammed is a physical chemist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who leads ultrafast electron imaging research on solar cells and X-ray scintillators.
Omar Fayed (عمر فايد)
Omar Fayed (عمر فايد) is a British-Finnish environmental entrepreneur, the youngest son of Mohamed Al-Fayed, who served on the Harrods board and founded the Swiss space-ecology company ESTEE.
Omar García Harfuch
Omar García Harfuch, Mexico's Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection under Claudia Sheinbaum since 2024 and former Mexico City police chief (2019-2023), survived a 2020 CJNG assassination attempt and leads the National Security Strategy.
Omar Gooding
Omar Gooding, also known as Big O, is an American actor, comedian, and hip-hop artist born in 1976, brother of Cuba Gooding Jr.; known for Wild & Crazy Kids, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Smart Guy, and Baby Boy.
Omar Hagrass
Omar Hagrass is an Egyptian technology founder, co-founder and CEO of Trella (تريلا), a Cairo-based digital trucking marketplace connecting shippers with carriers across the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan.
Omar Hakim
Omar Hakim (born 1959, New York City) is an American drummer, composer, and producer, ex-chair of Berklee's Percussion Department. Weather Report drummer 1982-1985; sessions for Bowie's Let's Dance, Sting, Miles Davis' Tutu, Dire Straits, and Daft Punk's Get Lucky.
Omar K. Farha
Omar K. Farha is a Palestinian-born chemist at Northwestern University, chair of its chemistry department since 2024, known for record-setting metal–organic frameworks for gas storage and destroying chemical warfare agents.
Omar Kanji
Omar Kanji is a Canadian-educated, New York-based venture capital investor in cryptocurrency and fintech who served at Dragonfly Ventures from 2022 to 2026, focused on stablecoin payments.
Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr, Canadian captured at 15 in Afghanistan in 2002, held at Guantanamo, convicted by US military commission in 2010, repatriated 2012, received Canadian apology and $10.5M settlement in 2017.
Omar Khayyam (عمر خیام)
Omar Khayyam (عمر خیام), Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and quatrain poet of Nishapur (ca. 1048-1123), known for cubic equations solved by conics, the Saljuq Isfahan observatory, the Robāʿiyāt, and FitzGerald's Rubáiyát.
Omar Khayyam quatrain controversy
The Omar Khayyam quatrain controversy is the scholarly dispute over which of the roughly 1,000 to 2,000 quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam he actually wrote.
Omar Linares
Omar Linares Izquierdo, "El Niño" Linares, Cuban third baseman (born 1967, Pinar del Río), .368 with 404 home runs in 20 National Series seasons, two Olympic golds, never played MLB.
Omar Little
Omar Little, fictional stickup artist in HBO's The Wire (2002–2008), played by Michael K. Williams; openly gay Baltimore robber of drug dealers with a strict moral code, based partly on Donnie Andrews, killed in season 5.
Omar Little and associates
Omar Little and associates covers the fictional stick-up artist of HBO's The Wire, played by Michael K. Williams, his code, lovers Brandon, Dante and Renaldo, real-life model Donnie Andrews, and reception including Obama's praise.
Omar Marmoush
Omar Marmoush (Omar Khaled Mohamed Marmoush, born 1999) is an Egyptian forward from Cairo who starred at Eintracht Frankfurt, joined Manchester City for €75m plus €5m in January 2025, and moved on loan to Tottenham in August 2026.