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Özilhan family
The Özilhan family is a Turkish business family that co-founded the Anadolu Group, the Borsa Istanbul-listed parent of Efes beer, with the Yazıcı family in 1950.
Ozires Silva
Ozires Silva, born in 1931, is a Brazilian Air Force officer turned industrialist who founded Embraer in 1969, led it twice, and directed its 1994 privatization.
Özledim
Özledim is the 1991 debut album by the Turkish pop trio İzel-Çelik-Ercan, which sold over one million copies and made the trio famous almost overnight.
Özlem Türeci
Özlem Türeci, also known as Ozlem Tureci, is a German physician who co-founded BioNTech in 2008 and leads clinical development of its COVID-19 vaccine as Chief Medical Officer.
Ozma of Oz
Ozma of Oz (1907) is the third Oz book by L. Frank Baum, published by Reilly & Britton and illustrated by John R. Neill. Dorothy returns to Oz, washes ashore in the Land of Ev with Billina and Tik-Tok, and helps Ozma rescue the royal family from the Nome King.
OZNA
OZNA (Serbo-Croatian for Department for People's Protection) was Yugoslavia's unified security and intelligence service, founded in Drvar in 1944 by Tito and split into UDBA and KOS in 1946.
Ozobot
Ozobot is a line of small educational robots made by a California company, teaching children to program by following hand-drawn lines and color-based commands on paper.
Ozolua
Ozolua, before his reign known as Prince Okpame, was Oba of Benin from about 1481 to 1504; tradition credits him with over 200 victories before he died in war against the Esan.
Ozomatli
Ozomatli is a Los Angeles band formed in 1995, fusing salsa, hip-hop, funk, cumbia, and rock. Known for activist origins, Grammy-winning Street Signs, and US Cultural Ambassador tours.
Ozonation
Ozonation is a water treatment process that dissolves ozone into water to inactivate pathogens and oxidize contaminants; used in drinking water since 1893, notably at Nice, France.
Ozone
Ozone (O₃), also called trioxygen, is a gas of three oxygen atoms that shields Earth from ultraviolet radiation in the stratosphere but is a toxic pollutant at ground level.
Ozone depletion
Ozone depletion is the thinning of the ozone layer caused by CFCs and halons, discovered over Antarctica in 1985 and now slowly recovering under the Montreal Protocol.
Ozone generation
Ozone generation is the on-site production of ozone, an unstable strong oxidant that cannot be stored, typically by dielectric barrier discharge, used mainly for water treatment and pulp bleaching.
Ozone layer
The ozone layer, also called the ozone shield, is the stratospheric region, 15 to 35 kilometers up, that absorbs most of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation.
Ozone therapy
Ozone therapy (oxy-ozone therapy, ozonotherapy): administration of 0.5–5% oxygen-ozone mixtures via autohemotherapy, insufflation, or topical routes; mechanistically plausible but low-certainty evidence, FDA states no established medical role.
Ozonolysis
Ozonolysis is an organic reaction in which ozone cleaves an alkene's carbon–carbon double bond, replacing it with carbonyl groups; the workup determines whether aldehydes or carboxylic acids form.
Ozora Festival
Ozora Festival, also known as O.Z.O.R.A., is a psychedelic trance festival held each summer at Dádpuszta near Ozora, Hungary, drawing around 30,000 people since 2004.
Ozotoceros
Ozotoceros (pampas deer genus, veado-campeiro) is a monotypic South American deer genus, Ameghino 1891, Cervidae Capreolinae Odocoileini, holding only Ozotoceros bezoarticus with five subspecies, Near Threatened, ranging Argentina to Brazil.
Ozren Bonačić
Ozren Bonačić (Озрен Боначић), born 1942 in Zagreb, Croatian water polo player and coach. Four Olympics for Yugoslavia (gold 1968, silver 1964), 275 caps, Mladost Zagreb player and later coach with European Cup titles.
Ozuna
Ozuna, stage name of Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado (born 1992, San Juan), is a Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap singer; his debut Odisea spent 46 weeks at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums and he was YouTube's most-viewed artist of 2018.
Ozymandias
Shelley's 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias" (also known by its full first line), written in competition with Horace Smith about Ramesses II's ruined statue, turns a boastful inscription into an enduring irony on the transience of power.
Ozymandias (Breaking Bad)
"Ozymandias" is the third-to-last episode of AMC's Breaking Bad (S5E14, aired September 15, 2013), written by Moira Walley-Beckett, directed by Rian Johnson, named for Shelley's sonnet, and winner of the 2014 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
Ozyorsk (Озёрск), formerly Chelyabinsk-40/65, is a closed ZATO city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, built 1945–46 around the Mayak nuclear complex; site of the 1957 Kyshtym disaster, Techa River contamination, spent fuel reprocessing, and a pass-regime entry system.
Ozza Mons
Ozza Mons is a large shield volcano on Venus at 4.5°N, 201.0°E in Atla Regio, 507 km across, one of Venus's two largest volcanoes with Maat Mons, centered on five converging rift zones.
Ozzfest
Ozzfest is a heavy metal festival founded in 1996 by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne after Lollapalooza declined Ozzy a slot, held almost annually until 2018 and returning in 2027.
Ozzfest lineups by year
Ozzfest lineups by year: the touring heavy-metal festival founded by Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne in 1996 after Lollapalooza rejected Ozzy, with year-by-year headliners, second-stage breakthrough acts, Japan editions, and the 2016–2018 Knotfest revivals.
Ozzie Albies
Ozzie Albies (Ozhaino Jurdy Jiandro Albies), Curaçao-born Atlanta Braves second baseman, MLB debut 2017; 2021 World Series champion, 3x All-Star, 2021 30/100/100 season, career .262 with 179 home runs.
Ozzie Guillén
Ozzie Guillén (Oswaldo José Guillén), born 1964 in Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela, is a former MLB shortstop and manager: 1985 AL Rookie of the Year with the White Sox, first Latino manager to win a World Series (2005), later Marlins manager, No. 13 retired in 2026.
Ozzie Nelson
Ozzie Nelson (Oswald George Nelson, 1906-1975), American bandleader, actor, producer, and Rutgers-trained lawyer; creator and star, with wife Harriet, of the 435-episode sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, distinct from later namesakes.
Ozzie Newsome
Ozzie Newsome, the "Wizard of Oz," is a Hall of Fame tight end (Browns 1978-90, 662 catches, 7,980 yards) and the NFL's first African American general manager, architect of the Baltimore Ravens' two Super Bowl titles.