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Ourense

Ourense (Orense), Galician city and capital of Ourense province, Spain, on the Miño river. Third Galician city by population (~105,769), known for Roman bridge, San Martiño Cathedral, and thermal springs second in Europe after Budapest.

Ourhoud Oil Field

Ourhoud is a giant onshore oil field in eastern Algeria's Berkine Basin, the country's second largest after Hassi Messaoud, producing from Triassic sandstones since 2002.

Ouri

Ouri is a Senegalese board game of the Mandinka, Wolof, and Fula peoples, a placement game on a 2x6 mancala board with 21 counters per player; Ouri is also a regional name of the mancala game Oware (Ouril in Cabo Verde).

Ouro Medicines

Ouro Medicines was a San Francisco biotechnology company developing immune reset therapeutics for chronic autoimmune diseases; it launched in 2025 with $120 million and was acquired by Gilead Sciences in 2026.

Ouroboros

Ouroboros (also uroboros), from Greek 'tail-devourer', is the ancient symbol of a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Earliest attested in Tutankhamun's 14th-century BCE tomb; central to alchemy, Gnosticism, and Jungian psychology.

Ourofino Saúde Animal

Ourofino Saúde Animal is a Brazilian veterinary pharmaceutical company founded in 1987 in Cravinhos, São Paulo, described as the largest veterinary drug maker of Brazilian origin, exporting to 17 countries.

Ousanas

Ousanas, also known as Ella Amida, was a king of Aksum in the early 4th century AD, remembered as the father or predecessor of Ezana, Aksum's first Christian king.

Ousas

Ousas (Greek ΟΥΣΑΣ) was a Christian king of Aksum in the late 5th and early 6th century, known only from his coins, which precede Kaleb's reign.

Ouse Valley Viaduct

The Ouse Valley Viaduct, also called the Balcombe Viaduct, is a brick railway viaduct in West Sussex carrying the Brighton Main Line over the River Ouse.

Ouseppinte Osiyathu

Ouseppinte Osiyathu (ഔസേപ്പിന്റെ ഒസ്യത്ത്, Ouseph's Testament) is a 2025 Malayalam family drama, Sarath Chandran RJ's debut, starring Vijayaraghavan, Dileesh Pothan, and Kalabhavan Shajohn; released 7 March 2025, streaming on Prime Video and Manorama Max.

Ousia (οὐσία)

Ousia (ουσία) is Aristotle's Greek term for substance or essence, the primary mode of being: in the Categories individual beings like Socrates, in Metaphysics Z form as the essence of each thing.

Ousmane Dembélé

Ousmane Dembélé (Masour Ousmane Dembélé), French forward born 1997 in Vernon; PSG and France, 2018 World Cup winner; won the 2025 Ballon d'Or and FIFA The Best after PSG's first Champions League title.

Ousmane Diabaté (footballer, born 2007)

Ousmane Diabaté (born 2007) is a Guinean defensive midfielder for Gençlerbirliği, on loan from Newcastle United, who debuted for Guinea in 2026 after coming through Académie SOAR.

Ousmane Diallo (footballer)

Ousmane Diallo (Ousmane Diallo Thiao), Spanish footballer born 2007 in Las Palmas; attacker who came through Borussia Dortmund's academy and joined Parma Calcio in 2026 for €1.5 million.

Ousmane Kromah

Ousmane Kromah, Florida State Seminoles running back No. 32 from Lee County High School, Leesburg, Georgia; 2025 four-star recruit who flipped from Georgia to FSU, with 565 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns in 2026.

Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007) was a Senegalese novelist and filmmaker called the father of African cinema; his La Noire de... (1966) was the first feature film from sub-Saharan Africa.

Ousmane Sow

Ousmane Sow (1935–2016) was a Senegalese sculptor known for monumental figurative works celebrating African peoples; in 2013 he became the first Black member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Oussama Mellouli

Oussama Mellouli (أسامة الملولي), Tunisian swimmer born 1984, Olympic 1500 m freestyle champion 2008 and 10 km open water champion 2012; first swimmer to win Olympic gold in both pool and open water, six-time Olympian.

Ousseppachan

Ousseppachan, also known as Ouseppachan, is a Malayalam film music composer from Thrissur, Kerala, active since 1978 and known for the songs of Kaathodu Kaathoram (1985) and the National Film Award-winning Ore Kadal (2007).

Oust

Oust, river in Brittany, France (l'Oust), flowing to the Vilaine near Redon; partly canalized in the Nantes-to-Brest canal (1806 project, 360 km, 238 locks). Known for granite quarries like Carrière du Houssac (closed 1930) and megalithic sites.

Ouster

Ouster, Inc. is an American lidar sensor company headquartered in San Francisco that designs and manufactures digital lidar sensors for the industrial, robotics, automotive, and smart infrastructure markets.

Ouster LiDAR

Ouster LiDAR is a line of digital lidar sensors made by Ouster, Inc. of San Francisco, built from semiconductor chips and used in automotive, robotics, and infrastructure.

Out (baseball)

Out (baseball): a batter or runner retired; the force out retires a runner by tagging the base he must advance to, removed when a trailing runner is forced out first, unlike tag outs and timing plays.

Out 1

Out 1 is a 1971 French drama directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, following a Paris street performer chasing a secret society of thirteen.

Out Cold (2001 film)

Out Cold (2001) is an American snowboarding comedy directed by Brendan and Emmett Malloy, starring Jason London, Zach Galifianakis, and Lee Majors; Touchstone/Spyglass film set at Bull Mountain, Alaska, released November 21, 2001, grossing $13.9 million.

Out Come the Wolves

Out Come the Wolves (2024) is a Canadian survival thriller directed by Adam MacDonald, starring Missy Peregrym, Joris Jarsky, and Damon Runyan; a cabin hunting trip turns deadly when wolves attack, released by IFC Films August 30, 2024.

Out for Justice

Out for Justice (1991) is a Warner Bros. action film directed by John Flynn, written by David Lee Henry (R. Lance Hill), starring Steven Seagal as Brooklyn detective Gino Felino hunting Richie Madano (William Forsythe), his partner's killer; grossed $36.8M.

Out of Africa

Out of Africa (Den afrikanske farm) is Karen Blixen's 1937 memoir, published as Isak Dinesen, about her 1914–1931 coffee farm in Kenya; basis of Sydney Pollack's 1985 Oscar-winning film starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.

Out of Africa (film)

Out of Africa is Sydney Pollack's 1985 romantic drama based on Karen Blixen's 1937 memoir, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in colonial Kenya; it won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Out of Love

Out of Love is an Indian Hindi-language Hotstar Specials drama (2019–2021, 10 episodes), a BBC Studios India adaptation of Doctor Foster starring Rasika Dugal and Purab Kohli, set in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.