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Odia Sahityara Itihasa
Odia Sahityara Itihasa (ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଇତିହାସ) is a history of Odia literature by Mayadhar Mansinha, published in English as History of Oriya Literature in 1962.
Odia translation tradition
The Odia translation tradition is the centuries-old practice of rendering texts into Odia, the official language of Odisha, India, beginning with Sarala Das's retellings of the Sanskrit epics.
Odile Eisenstein
Odile Eisenstein, born 1949, is a French theoretical and computational chemist, a CNRS research director emeritus in Montpellier known for computational studies of transition-metal and lanthanide complexes.
Odile Lesage
Odile Lesage (Lesage-Diagana), born 1969 in Paris, French heptathlete; 1992 Barcelona Olympian (15th, 6141 points), triple French champion 1989-1991, 1993 Mediterranean Games bronze, wife of Stéphane Diagana, later FFA communications director.
Odile van Aanholt
Odile van Aanholt (Odile Lambriex-van Aanholt), born 1998 in Willemstad, Curaçao, is a Dutch 49erFX sailor; 2021, 2022, and 2024 world champion and Paris 2024 Olympic gold medalist with Annette Duetz, now campaigning toward LA 2028 with Karlinde van Arendonk.
Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Globocnik (1904-1945), Austrian SS-Gruppenführer, Gauleiter of Vienna, SS and Police Leader in Lublin; directed Operation Reinhard (Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, about 1.7 million murdered); later HSSPF Adriatic Littoral; died by suicide after British capture.
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (1840–1916), French Symbolist painter and printmaker known for his black charcoal and lithograph noirs, then luminous pastels; celebrated via Huysmans's À rebours and the 2011 Grand Palais retrospective.
Odin
Odin (Old Norse Óðinn), chief god of Norse mythology: one-eyed god of war, poetry, the dead, runes, and magic, from Proto-Germanic Wōðanaz 'lord of frenzy'; husband of Frigg, owner of Sleipnir and Valhalla, killed by Fenrir at Ragnarök.
Odin Planitia
Odin Planitia is a 473-km-wide plain on Mercury east of the Caloris basin, IAU-named in 1976 for the Norse god Odin, marked by knobs and corrugated texture likely tied to Caloris ejecta and impact melt.
Odin Samuels-Smith
Odin Darren Samuels-Smith, Jamaican defender (centre-back, also full-back) born 2006 in Manchester, twin of Ishé Samuels-Smith; plays for Everton U21, loaned to Marine, 1 Jamaica cap.
Odin Sphere (オーディンスフィア)
Odin Sphere (オーディンスフィア) is Vanillaware's 2007 PlayStation 2 side-scrolling action RPG, a spiritual successor to Princess Crown, published by Atlus, with five interwoven Psypher-weapon protagonists, phozon-based leveling, and a 2016 HD remake, Odin Sphere Leifthrasir.
Odin Teatret
Odin Teatret: experimental theatre laboratory founded by Eugenio Barba in Oslo in 1964, based in Holstebro, Denmark since 1966; known for barter exchanges, ISTA theatre anthropology, and its 2022 split from Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.
Odin W. Anderson
Odin W. Anderson (Odin Waldemar Anderson, 1914–2003) was an American health services researcher and medical sociologist known for studies of health insurance and Blue Cross.
Odinarchaeota
Odinarchaeota, formally Candidatus Odinarchaeota, is a candidate phylum of Asgard archaea known only from reconstructed genomes, never cultured or imaged. Named in 2017 from Yellowstone hot springs, it has the smallest genomes among Asgard archaea.
Odintsovo
Odintsovo (Одинцово), a city in Moscow Oblast about 24 km west of Moscow; first mentioned 1627, town since 1957, about 190,000 residents; ranked first among 25 Moscow Oblast cities for quality of life in 2025.
Odion Ighalo
Odion Jude Ighalo (born 1989) is a Nigerian striker, 2019 AFCON top scorer with 5 goals, ex-Watford, Changchun Yatai, Shanghai Shenhua, Manchester United loanee, Al Hilal, and Al-Wehda forward.
Odious debt
Odious debt, also called illegitimate debt, is a doctrine systematized by Alexander Sack in 1927 holding that debts incurred by despotic regimes without popular consent, benefit, or creditor innocence are unenforceable, though no tribunal has applied it.
Ödipussi
Ödipussi (Loriots Ödipussi) is Loriot's 1988 West German comedy debut, starring Loriot and Evelyn Hamann as a 56-year-old mama's boy and a psychologist; it premiered simultaneously in East and West Berlin and drew 4.6 million admissions.
Odisea
Odisea is the 2017 debut studio album by Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap singer Ozuna, spending a record 46 weeks at number one on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart.
Odisha (ଓଡ଼ିଶା)
Odisha (ଓଡ଼ିଶା), formerly Orissa, is an eastern Indian state on the Bay of Bengal with capital Bhubaneswar, 30 districts, 155,707 sq km area, ancient Kalinga heritage, and an industry-led economy.
Odisha FC
Odisha FC, formerly Delhi Dynamos FC, is an Indian Super League football club based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, relocated and renamed in 2019 under a state government agreement; plays at Kalinga Stadium, owned by GMS Inc, won the 2023 Kalinga Super Cup.
Odisha Power Generation Corporation
Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) is a wholly state-owned power company of Odisha, India, incorporated in 1984 and operating the 1,740 MW Ib Thermal Power Station.
Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award
The Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award (ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଏକାଡେମୀ ପୁରସ୍କାର) honors writing in the Odia language; conferred by the Government of Odisha's literary academy, its highest honor is the Atibadi Jagannath Das Award.
Odisseo
Odisseo is a Mexican alternative rock band formed in 2010 in Ecatepec de Morelos, blending New Wave with Spanish-language romantic ballads; its name fuses the Spanish words for hate and desire.
Odissi
Odissi, also spelled Orissi, is a classical Indian dance from the temples of Odisha, one of eight Sangeet Natak Akademi-recognized classical dances, defined by chauka and tribhanga stances and a repertoire of mangalacharan, batu, pallavi, abhinaya, and moksha, revived and codified in the 1950s.
Odiyan
Odiyan (ഒടിയൻ) is a 2018 Malayalam fantasy thriller directed by V. A. Shrikumar Menon, starring Mohanlal as Manikyan, the last shapeshifting odiyan of Kerala folklore; a costly flop that spawned later Odiyan projects.
Odjek
Odjek, meaning "Echo," is a cultural, artistic, and literary magazine published in Sarajevo since 1947, which became one of the leading periodicals for cultural criticism in socialist Yugoslavia.
Odlanier Solis
Odlanier Solis (Odlanier Solis Fonte, "La Sombra"), Cuban heavyweight boxer born 1980 in Havana; 2004 Olympic gold medalist, three-time amateur world champion, defected 2006, lost a 2011 WBC title fight to Vitali Klitschko, retired 22-3.
Odnoklassniki (Одноклассники)
Odnoklassniki (Одноклассники, also OK.ru) is a Russian social networking platform launched in 2006 by Albert Popkov to help people reconnect with former classmates and old friends.
Odo (Star Trek)
Odo is the shapeshifting Changeling security chief of Deep Space 9 in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by René Auberjonois; found in the Denorios Belt, named from 'Odo'ital', he loves Kira Nerys and rejoins the Great Link in the finale.