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Osamu Terasaki
Osamu Terasaki is a Japanese electron crystallographer known for solving the atomic structures of zeolites, mesoporous materials, and metal-organic frameworks by electron microscopy, with careers at Tohoku and Stockholm universities.
Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫)
Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫), the "God of Manga" (1928–1989), was a Japanese manga artist and animator who created Astro Boy, Phoenix, and Black Jack, founded Mushi Production, produced Japan's first TV anime series, and drew about 150,000 pages across 700 titles.
Osamu Watanabe
Osamu Watanabe (渡辺長武), Japanese freestyle wrestler nicknamed "Animal"; 1962-63 world champion and unbeaten 1964 Tokyo Olympic featherweight gold medalist with a 186-189 match winning streak.
Osan
Osan (오산시, 烏山市) is a city in southwestern Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, between Suwon and Pyeongtaek, about 60 km from Seoul. Promoted from Osan-eup to city status on 1 January 1989, it is a residential satellite city of over 200,000 people, distinct from Osan Air Base, which lies in Pyeongtaek.
Osan School
Osan School (오산학교) was a private nationalist secondary school founded by Yi Seung-hun in Jeongju in December 1907 to train leaders of the Korean national movement.
Osanai Kaoru
Osanai Kaoru (小山内薫, 1881–1928) was a Japanese playwright, director, and theater critic who founded the Free Theatre in 1909 and the Tsukiji Little Theatre, Japan's first permanent modern theater.
osapiens
osapiens is a German enterprise software company based in Mannheim, founded in 2018, selling the osapiens HUB cloud platform for supply-chain transparency and ESG compliance.
Osasco
Osasco is a municipality in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, Brazil, west of the capital, nicknamed Cidade-trabalho (Work City). Emancipated from São Paulo on 19 February 1962 and named after Osasco, Italy, it ranks 7th in Brazilian GDP and grew around an 1895 railway station.
OSATS
OSATS, or Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills, is a method for assessing surgical technical skill, in which trainees perform procedures at stations scored by checklists and a global rating scale.
OSB Digital
OSB Digital, LLC is a process-engineering consultancy founded in 2018 in Spring, Texas, by Osvaldo A. Bascur, a metallurgical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
OSBAT Oil Pipeline
The OSBAT oil pipeline (Oleoduto São Sebastião–Cubatão) is a Brazilian crude oil pipeline, in service since 1968, carrying crude from São Sebastião to the Cubatão refinery.
Osbert Sitwell
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) was an English man of letters who, with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell, led a rebellion against the literary establishment and wrote a five-volume autobiography.
Osborn Maitland Miller
Osborn Maitland Miller (1897–1979) was a Scottish-American cartographer who spent 46 years at the American Geographical Society and created the Miller cylindrical projection in 1942.
Osborne House
Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, built between 1845 and 1851 as a seaside retreat for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Osborne Reynolds
Osborne Reynolds was an Anglo-Irish engineer and physicist who held the Chair of Engineering at Owens College, Manchester, from 1868 to 1905 and established the Reynolds number.
OSCAB Oil Pipeline
The OSCAB Oil Pipeline (Oleoduto OCAB) is a 67 km Petrobras crude oil pipeline in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, running from Quissamã to the Cabiúnas Terminal in Macaé.
Oscar (1967 film)
Oscar (1967) is a French comedy by Édouard Molinaro, adapted from Claude Magnier's 1958 play, starring Louis de Funès as Bertrand Barnier, blackmailed by his embezzling employee Christian; released 11 October 1967 by Gaumont, remade in 1991.
Oscar (1991 film)
Oscar is a 1991 John Landis gangster comedy starring Sylvester Stallone as Snaps Provolone, a Touchstone remake of Claude Magnier's French farce, released April 26, 1991, hit by the Universal backlot fire and a 12% Tomatometer.
Oscar (fish)
Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus), also velvet cichlid, a large South American cichlid from the Amazon and Orinoco basins, popular in aquariums and established in Florida, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Australia.
Oscar (footballer, born 1991)
Oscar, full name Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior, is a Brazilian retired attacking midfielder who played for Chelsea and Shanghai Port and won 48 caps for Brazil.
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda is a 1988 novel by Peter Carey, winner of the Booker Prize, about two gamblers who wager on transporting a glass church.
Oscar Arias Sánchez
Óscar Arias Sánchez, born in 1940, is a Costa Rican politician and economist who served two terms as president and won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his Central American peace plan.
Oscar bait
Oscar bait, also called awards bait, is a pejorative term for films designed at least partly to win Academy Awards, marked by biopics, period dramas, disability roles, and late-year release before January nominations.
Óscar Benavides
Óscar R. Benavides (Óscar Raymundo Benavides Larrea, 1876–1945) was a Peruvian general and politician who served twice as president of Peru, from 1914 to 1915 and 1933 to 1939.
Oscar Bobb
Oscar Bobb (born 2003, Oslo) is a Norwegian left-footed right winger for Fulham and Norway, formerly Manchester City (2019-2026), a Premier League 2023-24 winner sold for £27m in January 2026.
Oscar Bonavena
Oscar "Ringo" Bonavena (1942–1976), Argentine heavyweight boxer, twice fought Joe Frazier and lost by 15th-round TKO to Muhammad Ali in 1970; murdered at the Mustang Ranch brothel near Reno, Nevada.
Oscar Branning
Oscar Branning is a fictional character in the BBC soap EastEnders, son of Max Branning and Tanya Cross, born on screen 2007 and played by four actors, currently Pierre Counihan-Moullier, who returned as a teenage regular in July 2025.
Óscar Cardozo
Óscar 'Tacuara' Cardozo, Paraguayan centre-forward (born 1983), Benfica's all-time leading foreign scorer with 172 goals in 293 games, later Trabzonspor, Olympiacos, and Libertad; retired April 2026 with 410 career goals.
Oscar Casanovas
Oscar Casanovas (Óscar Casanovas, 1914–1987) was an Argentine featherweight boxer who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, beating Charlie Catterall in the final, then acted in film and trained champions.
Óscar Collazos
Óscar Collazos (1942–2015) was a Colombian novelist, essayist, and literary critic known for the urban novel and the 1969 polemic with Cortázar and Vargas Llosa.