All articles starting with O
9,097 articles
Oscar le Pin
Oscar le Pin was a Swiss author nominated once, in 1901, for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1900 work La recherche de l'idéal.
Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant (1906–1972), American pianist, composer, and wit; leading interpreter of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F; Information Please panelist, Hollywood character actor, and author of A Smattering of Ignorance.
Óscar Llorca
Óscar Llorca is a Spanish structural biologist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study macromolecular complexes involved in cancer, leading the Structural Biology Programme at CNIO in Madrid.
Oscar Loew
Oscar Loew (1844–1941) was a German agricultural chemist who announced catalase in 1900, discovered manganese as a plant nutrient, and taught in Tokyo and Munich.
Oscar Longoria
Oscar Longoria is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 35, covering Hidalgo and Cameron Counties.
Óscar López Águeda
Óscar López Águeda, born in Madrid in 1973, is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician serving as Minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service since 2024.
Oscar López Rivera
Oscar López Rivera (born 1943, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico), FALN member convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1981, served almost 36 years in US prisons before Obama's January 2017 commutation; released May 17, 2017; diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2024.
Oscar Marín
Óscar Marín (born 1971) is a Spanish neuroscientist who studies how cerebral cortex circuits are assembled, focusing on inhibitory interneurons, and directs the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London.
Oscar Martinez (The Office)
Oscar Martinez is a fictional character in the American sitcom The Office, played by Oscar Nuñez, an accountant at the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch of a paper company.
Óscar Maydon
Óscar Maydon (Óscar René Maydon Mesa, born 1999, Mexicali) is a Mexican corridos tumbados singer on Rancho Humilde, known for "Fin de Semana" and the Billboard-topping "Tu Boda" with Fuerza Regida.
Oscar Mayer
Oscar Mayer is an American packaged-meat brand owned by Kraft Heinz, founded as a Chicago butcher shop in 1883 and known for its hot dogs, bacon, and cold cuts.
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux, also known as Oscar Devereaux Micheaux, was an African-American novelist and independent filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced more than forty feature films for Black audiences between 1919 and 1948.
Óscar Mingueza
Óscar Mingueza (Óscar Mingueza García) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a right-back or center-back for Crystal Palace, formed at Barcelona's La Masia academy.
Oscar Montoya
Oscar Montoya is a Colombian-American actor, comedian, and hip hop dancer from Palmira, Colombia, known for Richie on Minx, Delloso de la Rue on Dimension 20, voice roles in Final Space and Star Trek: Lower Decks, and podcasts including Drag Her! and Spanish Aqui Presents.
Oscar Morgan
Oscar Morgan (born 1999) is a British actor known for Turner Hayes in Gotham Knights (2023), Prince Valarr Targaryen in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026), Warren, Peaceful, and Masters of the Air.
Oscar Munoz (executive)
Oscar Munoz is an American business executive who was chief executive officer of United Airlines from 2015 to 2020 and executive chairman until 2021, after a finance and operations career at CSX.
Oscar Naasei
Oscar Naasei (Oscar Naasei Oppong), Ghanaian defender born 2005 in Accra; Granada CF youth product, Segunda debut 2024, signed by Real Madrid Castilla in August 2026 for about €2 million.
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) was a Brazilian architect, a defining figure of Brazilian modern architecture, known for free-flowing concrete curves and for the principal buildings of Brasília, inaugurated in 1960.
Oscar Nunez
Oscar Nuñez (born 1958, Colón, Cuba) is a Cuban-American actor and comedian, sometimes credited Oscar Nunez, known for accountant Oscar Martinez on The Office (2005–2013) and its follow-up The Paper, plus The Proposal, The Lost City, and voice roles.
Oscar Olsen
Oscar Olsen was a Norwegian-born American athlete who won a gold medal in tug-of-war at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics and placed fourth in two-handed weightlifting.
Oscar Osthoff
Oscar Paul Osthoff (1883–1950), American weightlifter, swimmer, and football player; won 1904 Olympic gold in the all-around dumbbell contest and silver in the two-hand lift.
Oscar Peak
Oscar Peak (Pic Oscar) is a 2,336 m summit in the Nass Group of the Coast Mountains, British Columbia, named for settler Oscar Olander, first climbed in 1925 by Broden and Olander, with 2,099 m prominence.
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson (1925-2007), Montreal-born Canadian jazz pianist known as the Maharaja of the Keyboard, led the celebrated Oscar Peterson Trio and won 8 Grammy Awards, including Lifetime Achievement, over six decades and more than 500 recordings.
Oscar Piastri
Oscar Piastri (born 2001, Melbourne) is an Australian Formula One driver for McLaren; junior triple champion (Renault Eurocup, F3, F2 2019–2021), CRB contract win over Alpine, 9 F1 wins, 2025 title runner-up fight, third in 2025.
Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius, the South African "Blade Runner" double-amputee sprinter, six-time Paralympic gold medallist and first amputee Olympic track athlete (London 2012); convicted of murdering Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, imprisoned 2014, paroled 5 January 2024 until December 2029.
Óscar Puente Santiago
Óscar Puente Santiago is a Spanish Socialist politician who was mayor of Valladolid from 2015 and serves as Spain's Minister for Transport and Sustainable Mobility.
Oscar Randal-Williams
Oscar Randal-Williams is a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics, known for work on moduli spaces of manifolds with Søren Galatius.
Oscar Ray Bolin
Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., Florida murderer and confessed killer also linked to Stephanie Collins and Natalie Holley cases; tried three times for the 1986 Teri Lynn Matthews murder, executed January 7, 2016 by lethal injection at age 53.
Oscar Riddle
Oscar Riddle (1877–1968) was an American zoologist and endocrinologist who isolated and named prolactin, the pituitary hormone that stimulates milk production, and spent decades studying pigeons at Cold Spring Harbor.
Oscar Robertson
Oscar Robertson, the Big O (born 1938), NBA guard for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks; first player to average a triple-double for a season (1961-62, 30.8/12.5/11.4), 1971 champion, 1964 MVP, and namesake of the 1970 antitrust suit that created NBA free agency.