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Oskar Hansson
Oskar Hansson, born 1975, is a Swedish neurologist and professor of neurology at Lund University, known for the p-tau217 blood test for early Alzheimer's diagnosis.
Oskar Helmer
Oskar Helmer was an Austrian Social Democratic politician who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1945 to 1959, rebuilding the Austrian police under occupation.
Oskar Hultman
Oskar Fredrik Hultman (1862–1929) was a Finnish linguist and professor of Swedish at Helsinki, known for De östsvenska dialekterna (1894), his edition of Jöns Buddes bok, and his dissertation on the Hälsinge law manuscript.
Oskar Klein
Oskar Benjamin Klein (1894–1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist and longtime collaborator of Niels Bohr, known for the Klein–Gordon equation, Kaluza–Klein theory, and the Klein–Nishina formula.
Oskar Kohnstamm
Oskar Kohnstamm (1871–1917) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who demonstrated the involuntary arm movement called the Kohnstamm phenomenon and ran a sanatorium at Königstein.
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), Austrian-born Expressionist painter, printmaker, poet, and playwright; creator of Die träumenden Knaben (1908), psychological portraits, works confiscated as degenerate in 1937, exile in London, later Switzerland.
Oskar Langendorff
Oskar Langendorff (1853–1908) was a German physiologist who in 1895 introduced the Langendorff heart, a perfusion method for the isolated mammalian heart still used today.
Oskar Leopold von Gebhardt
Oskar Leopold von Gebhardt (1844–1906) was a German Lutheran theologian, librarian, and scholar of Greek manuscripts who directed the Leipzig University Library and co-founded Texte und Untersuchungen with Adolf von Harnack.
Oskar Loerke
Oskar Loerke (1884–1941) was a German poet, prose writer, critic, and editor in Berlin whose lyric work ranks among the most influential in twentieth-century German poetry.
Oskar Luts
Oskar Luts was an Estonian prose writer and playwright, sometimes called the Estonian Dickens, whose novel Kevade (Spring, 1912–1913) remains a core text of Estonian culture.
Oskar med k
oskar med k is the stage name of an Oslo-born Norwegian solo producer of melodic and chill house; debut 2023, viral 2025 hit 'Make Me Feel' (also 'Make Me Feel'), Khalid rework, albums 'keep your feet' and 'feel'.
Oskar Minkowski
Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931) was a German physician and internist who showed in 1889 that removing a dog's pancreas produces severe diabetes, the experimental starting point for the discovery of insulin.
Oskar Morgenstern
Oskar Morgenstern (1902–1977) was an Austrian-born economist who co-founded game theory with John von Neumann in 1944 and later taught at Princeton and New York University.
Oskar Painter
Oskar Painter, born 1972, is an experimental physicist and Caltech professor known for optomechanical crystals, who since December 2019 has directed quantum hardware at Amazon Web Services.
Oskar Perron
Oskar Perron (1880–1975) was a German mathematician who held chairs at Heidelberg and Munich and is known for the Perron–Frobenius theorem, the Perron integral, and continued fractions.
Oskar Pietuszewski
Oskar Pietuszewski, Polish winger (born 2008, Białystok), Jagiellonia Białystok academy product; record Ekstraklasa sale to FC Porto January 2026 (€8m+€2m), renewed to 2031, €60m clause; Poland youth-to-senior international.
Oskar Potiorek
Oskar Potiorek (1853–1933), Austro-Hungarian Feldzeugmeister, deputy chief of the General Staff and governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1911; survived the Sarajevo assassination he was meant to protect against, then commanded the failed 1914 Serbian invasions and was dismissed in December 1914.
Oskar R. Lange
Oskar R. Lange, also known as Oskar Ryszard Lange, was a Polish economist whose 1936 answer in the socialist calculation debate made him the central reference point for market socialism.
Oskar Sala
Oskar Sala (1910–2002), German composer and physicist, co-developer and sole virtuoso of the Trautonium and its successor the Mixtur-Trautonium; created sounds for over 300 films, including Hitchcock's The Birds.
Oskar Schiele
Oskar Schiele (1889–1950), German swimmer from Magdeburg; silver in the 4x250 m freestyle relay at the 1906 Intercalated Games, competed at Stockholm 1912, held world backstroke records at 100 m and 200 m.
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), Sudeten German businessman, Abwehr agent, and Nazi Party member, saved over 1,000 Jewish forced laborers via his Kraków Emalia factory and Brünnlitz camp; the 'list' was compiled by Marcel Goldberg, not Schindler.
Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory
Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory (Fabryka Emalia, Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik) in Kraków's Zabłocie district: wartime factory where Schindler employed Jewish forced laborers, now a Museum of Krakow branch opened 2010 about occupied Kraków 1939–1945.
Oskar Vogt
Oskar Vogt (1870–1959) was a German neurologist who, with his wife Cécile, built the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin, mapped the cerebral cortex, and examined Lenin's brain.
Oskar Werner
Oskar Werner (born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer, 1922-1984), Austrian stage and film actor, Burgtheater prodigy and wartime deserter, star of Jules and Jim, Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, and Fahrenheit 451; Oscar-nominated 1965, Golden Globe 1966.
Oskar Wintersteiner
Oskar Wintersteiner (1898–1971) was an Austrian-American biochemist who first crystallized penicillin and showed it contained sulfur, and who isolated progesterone and helped isolate cortisone at Squibb.
Oskari Friman
Oskari Friman (Oskar David Friman, 1893–1933) was a Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler who won Olympic gold at featherweight, Antwerp 1920, and lightweight, Paris 1924, plus the 1921 world lightweight title.
Oskars Kalpaks
Oskars Kalpaks (1882–1919) was a Latvian colonel, first commander of the armed forces of Latvia's Provisional Government, killed in a friendly-fire clash near Airītes in 1919.
Oskars Melbardis
Oskars Melbārdis (born 1988, Valmiera) is a Latvian bobsleigh pilot, Olympic four-man champion at Sochi 2014 after Russian disqualification, with two-man bronze in 2014 and 2018, and 2016 world champion.
Oskarshamn nuclear power plant
Oskarshamn nuclear power plant (Oskarshamns kärnkraftverk) is a Swedish nuclear power station on the Simpevarp peninsula in the Baltic Sea, whose reactor O1 was Sweden's first commercial nuclear reactor.
Oskison (Mercurian crater)
Oskison is an IAU-recognized impact crater on Mercury (Feature ID 14516), about 120 km in diameter, centered at 60.60°N, 215.30°W in the northern plains near Caloris basin, imaged by NASA's MESSENGER mission.