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Oscar Curtis
Oscar Curtis, also known as Oscar Sam Curtis, is a British actor and model born in 2005, known for playing Lucas Hay in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
Oscar D. Dubon Jr.
Oscar D. Dubon Jr. is an American materials scientist, professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who won the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for semiconductor research.
Oscar D. Ratnoff
Oscar D. Ratnoff (1916–2008) was an American hematologist and blood-clotting researcher who discovered the Hageman factor, now factor XII, and named the waterfall hypothesis of coagulation.
Oscar D'León
Oscar D'León, also known as Oscar De Leon and El León de la Salsa, is a Venezuelan salsa singer, bassist, and bandleader born in Caracas in 1943.
Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya, "the Golden Boy" (born 1973), American boxer and promoter; 1992 Olympic lightweight gold medalist, 10 world titles in six weight classes, founder of Golden Boy Promotions in 2002.
Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta (1932–2014), Dominican-American couturier, founded his New York ready-to-wear house in 1965 after Balenciaga, Lanvin, and Elizabeth Arden; designer of Balmain couture 1993–2002 and gown maker to US first ladies.
Oscar De Los Santos
Oscar De Los Santos is an American Democratic politician first elected in 2022 to Arizona's District 11 House seat, representing Laveen, Guadalupe, and South Phoenix, and chosen Minority Leader in 2024.
Oscar E. Suman
Oscar E. Suman is an American burn-injury researcher and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch who received a 2015 Presidential Early Career Award.
Oscar Figueroa
Oscar Figueroa, born Óscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera in 1983, is a retired Colombian weightlifter, Olympic champion at Rio 2016 in the men's 62 kg class.
Oscar G
Oscar G (Oscar Gaetan) is an American house DJ and producer from Miami, one half of the duo Murk and a longtime Club Space resident.
Óscar García (footballer, born 2003)
Óscar García (Óscar Damián García Herrera, born 2003, León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican goalkeeper for Club León, a former youth fan of the club, and a September 2026 Mexico national team debutant against Peru. Not the 1973-born Spanish coach.
Òscar Gistau
Òscar Gistau Ferreño (born 2008) is a Spanish centre-forward for FC Barcelona Atlètic, number 29, a La Masia graduate from Reus Deportiu, Spain U17 international, contracted to 2028.
Oscar Goodman
Oscar Baylin Goodman (born 1939), Las Vegas mayor 1999-2011 and former mob defense lawyer for Lansky, Rosenthal, and Spilotro; secured 61 acres for Union Park, swore in wife Carolyn, and championed The Mob Museum.
Oscar Goßler
Oscar Goßler (1875–1953) was a German rower with Germania Ruder Club, Hamburg, who won Olympic gold in the coxed fours at the 1900 Paris Games and finished fourth in the eights.
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813–1875) was a Swedish-born painter and photographer active in Britain who pioneered combination printing, best known for The Two Ways of Life (1857).
Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), American lyricist and librettist; co-wrote Show Boat with Jerome Kern and, with Richard Rodgers from 1943, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.
Oscar Health Insurance
Oscar Health Insurance is a New York-based technology-led health insurer founded in 2012 by Mario Schlosser, Joshua Kushner, and Kevin Nazemi, serving about 2 million members.
Oscar Hertwig
Oscar Hertwig (1849–1922) was a German embryologist and cytologist who first recognized the fusion of sperm and egg nuclei as the essential event in fertilization.
Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013) was an American novelist of Cuban descent, the first Hispanic writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
Oscar Höglund
Oscar Höglund, born in 1978, is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Stockholm's music-licensing company Epidemic Sound in 2009 and served as its CEO for about 17 years.
Oscar Howe
Oscar Howe, known to his people as Mazuha Hokshina, was a Yanktonai Dakota painter from South Dakota whose 1958 letter challenging defined "Indian art" opened the field to individual expression.
Oscar I of Sweden
Oscar I (Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte, 1799–1859), king of Sweden and Norway 1844–1859, only son of Karl XIV Johan; reformer (freedom of trade 1846, equal inheritance 1845), improved Norway's union standing, signed the 1855 November Treaty with Britain and France.
Oscar II Coast
Oscar II Coast, also Kong Oscar II Land, is the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, between Cape Fairweather and Cape Alexander, charted by C. A. Larsen in 1893 and named for King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway.
Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac (Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada), born 1979 in Guatemala City, is a Guatemalan-American actor known for Inside Llewyn Davis, Star Wars' Poe Dameron, Dune, and Moon Knight; Juilliard-trained, Golden Globe winner, no Oscar nominations.
Óscar Jaenada
Óscar Jaenada (born 1975, Barcelona) is a Spanish actor, Goya winner for Camarón (2005), known as a chameleon performer in Noviembre, The Losers, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Cantinflas, Hernán, and Rambo: Last Blood.
Oscar Jenkins
Oscar Jenkins, Australian teacher from Melbourne who joined Ukraine's International Legion in 2024, was captured by Russia in December 2024 and sentenced to 13 years as a mercenary by a Luhansk court; reports of his execution were disproven.
Oscar Jilsén
Oscar Jilsén is a Swedish game designer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, one of nine students from the University of Skövde, and served as its lead designer.
Oscar Jordà
Òscar Jordà is a Spanish economist and econometrician at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and UC Davis, creator of the local projections method.
Oscar K. Rice
Oscar Knefler Rice (1903–1978) was an American physical chemist at the University of North Carolina, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1964, known for unimolecular reaction theory.
Oscar L. Miller
Oscar Lee Miller Jr. is an American molecular biologist at Oak Ridge and the University of Virginia whose chromatin spreading method produced the "Christmas tree" micrographs of ribosomal RNA genes.