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Oldsmobile Silhouette

The Oldsmobile Silhouette was a luxury minivan produced by General Motors' Oldsmobile division from 1990 to 2004, known for its "Dustbuster" styling and its role in the 1995 film Get Shorty.

Oldsmobile Starfire

The Oldsmobile Starfire was a nameplate used by Oldsmobile in three eras: 1954–1956 Ninety-Eight convertibles, a full-size personal luxury car from 1961 to 1966, and a compact hatchback from 1975 to 1980.

Oldsmobile Toronado

The Oldsmobile Toronado was a personal luxury coupe sold by Oldsmobile from 1966 to 1992 and the first front-wheel-drive American production car since the 1937 Cord 810.

Oldsmobile V8 engine

The Oldsmobile V8 engine, known as the "Rocket" V8, is a family of gasoline V-8 engines built by GM's Oldsmobile division from 1949 to 1990, beginning with the 135 hp Rocket of 1949.

Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser

The Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, or Vista Cruiser, is a station wagon Oldsmobile built from 1964 to 1977, best known for the glass skylights and raised roof of its first two generations.

Olduvai Gorge

Olduvai Gorge (Oldupai Gorge), in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area, is a major paleoanthropological site with a 2-million-year record of Oldowan and Acheulean tools, Paranthropus boisei and Homo habilis fossils, and Leakey expeditions.

Ole 60

Ole 60 is an American country band from Kentucky founded by Jacob Young and Tristan Roby, who broke out with the 2023 EP three twenty four.

Ole A. Andreassen

Ole A. Andreassen, often cited as Ole Andreassen, is a Norwegian psychiatrist and geneticist at the University of Oslo studying the genetics of severe mental disorders.

Ole Anderson

Ole Anderson (Alan Robert Rogowski, 1942–2024), American pro wrestler, booker, and promoter; Minnesota Wrecking Crew tag team with Gene Anderson, founding member of the Four Horsemen, and head of Georgia Championship Wrestling and WCW booking.

Ole Berntsen

Ole Berntsen (Ole Valdemar Henrik Berntsen, 1915–1996), Danish Dragon-class sailor from Hellerup Sejlklub; won Olympic bronze 1948, silver 1956, and gold 1964 aboard White Lady, plus five Dragon Gold Cups.

Ole Bischof

Ole Bischof (born 1979, Reutlingen) is a retired German judoka, under 81 kg, Olympic champion Beijing 2008 and silver medalist London 2012, world bronze 2009, European champion 2005, later DOSB vice president.

Ole e 1

Ole e 1 (common olive group 1) is the major IgE-binding allergen of olive tree (Olea europaea) pollen, a 145-amino-acid glycoprotein of about 20 kDa, sensitizing over 70% of olive pollinosis patients and cross-reacting with ash, privet, and lilac Oleaceae allergens.

Ole e 12

Ole e 12, olive pollen isoflavone reductase allergen, 308 amino acids, 37 kDa, minor allergen, 33% prevalence in peach-allergic patients, homolog of birch Bet v 6.

Ole Edvart Rølvaag

Ole Edvart Rølvaag (1876–1931), born Ole Edvart Pedersen, was a Norwegian-American novelist and St. Olaf professor whose Giants in the Earth (1927) became a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection.

Ole Einar Bjørndalen

Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete born 1974, won 14 Olympic medals including 8 golds across six Games (1994–2014), swept all four biathlon events at Salt Lake City 2002, and took 94 World Cup wins before retiring in 2018.

Ole Ellefsæter

Ole Ellefsæter (Ole Martin Ellefsæter, 1939–2022), nicknamed Uteligger, Norwegian cross-country skier and steeplechase runner; double 1968 Grenoble Olympic gold (50 km, 4×10 km relay), 1966 world relay champion, first Norwegian Vasaloppet winner (1971).

Ole Fredrik Olden

Ole Fredrik Olden (1879–1963) was a Norwegian science teacher, school rector, and pacifist, rector of St. Svithuns skole in Stavanger from 1923 to 1946 and a 1957 Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

Ole Frithjof Norheim

Ole Frithjof Norheim is a Norwegian physician and medical ethicist who is a professor at the University of Bergen and Harvard, known for his research on health inequality.

Ole Gunnar Solskjær

Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian manager and former Manchester United striker; United manager 2018-2021 (second place, Europa League final, no trophies), Beşiktaş coach January-August 2025.

Ole H. Petersen

Ole H. Petersen, born 1943, is a Danish-born physiologist at Cardiff University known for discovering intracellular calcium tunnels and defining calcium signaling failure in acute pancreatitis.

Ole Hallesby

Ole Hallesby (1879–1961) was a Norwegian Lutheran pietist theologian who taught in Oslo, led church resistance to Nazi occupation, and wrote 67 books in 37 languages.

Ole Isacson

Ole Isacson is a physician and neuroscientist known for neural transplantation and stem-cell therapy research in Parkinson's disease. He directs the Neuroregeneration Research Institute at McLean Hospital and teaches neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Ole Kiehn

Ole Kiehn, born 1958, is a Danish–Swedish systems neuroscientist who studies the neural circuits that make mammals walk, run, and stop, and won the 2022 Brain Prize.

Ole Kirk Christiansen

Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958) was a Danish master carpenter and joiner who founded the LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark, in 1932, turning from wooden toys to plastic bricks.

Ole Lamm

Ole Lamm (1902–1964) was a Swedish physical chemist, professor at KTH, who derived the 1929 Lamm equation governing sedimentation, still central to protein analysis by ultracentrifugation.

Ole Miss Rebels football

Ole Miss Rebels football: University of Mississippi team in Oxford, Mississippi, SEC member since the conference's early era. Claims three national titles (1959, 1960, 1962), six SEC championships, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, The Grove tailgating, and record $411.7M game-weekend economic impact.

Ole Miss riot of 1962

The Ole Miss riot of 1962, also called the Battle of Oxford, was a segregationist mob attack on U.S. marshals and troops at the University of Mississippi on September 30, 1962, opposing James Meredith's enrollment; two civilians died and Meredith registered October 1.

Ole Nydahl

Lama Ole Nydahl was a Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism in the Karma Kagyu lineage who, with his wife Hannah, founded the Diamond Way network of over 600 centers worldwide.

Olé Olé

Olé Olé is a Spanish pop group formed as a CBS studio project in 1982, best known for "No controles" and lead singers Vicky Larraz and Marta Sánchez.

Ole Olsen (speedway rider)

Ole Olsen (born 1946, Haderslev) is a Danish former speedway rider, Denmark's first world champion (1971, Gothenburg), with individual titles 1971, 1975, 1978, longtrack 1973, 21 world medals, and founder of Vojens Speedway Center.