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Olga Korbut (Ольга Валентиновна Корбут)
Olga Korbut (Ольга Валентиновна Корбут), born 1955 in Grodno, Soviet gymnast, 'Sparrow from Minsk'; won 4 Olympic golds and 2 silvers at Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976; creator of the banned Korbut Flip.
Olga Kotlyarova
Olga Ivanovna Kotlyarova (Ольга Ивановна Котлярова), born 1976 in Yekaterinburg, Russian 400m/800m runner; Olympic 4x400m relay bronze 2000, 1999 world relay champion, four World Indoor relay titles, 2006 European 800m champion.
Olga Krishtop
Olga Krishtop (born 1957) is a Soviet race walker who won the 1987 World Indoor 3000 meters walk in a world indoor record of 12:05.49.
Olga Krivosheyeva
Olga Krivosheyeva (Ольга Юрьевна Кривошеева), born 1961, Kazakh volleyball player for Spartak and ADK Almaty; won gold with the Soviet Union in women's volleyball at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and European titles in 1985 and 1987.
Olga Kuragina
Olga Kuragina (Ольга Курагина), born 1959, Soviet pentathlete; 1980 Moscow Olympic bronze (4875) and pentathlon world record 4856 in June 1980; distinct from Russian heptathlete Olga Kurban.
Olga Kurylenko (Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко)
Olga Kurylenko (Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко), Ukrainian-born French actress and former model born 1979 in Berdyansk; Bond girl Camille in Quantum of Solace (2008) and Taskmaster in Black Widow and Thunderbolts.
Olga Kuzenkova
Olga Sergeyevna Kuzenkova (Ольга Сергеевна Кузенкова; born 1970 in Smolensk) is a Russian hammer thrower who won the 2004 Olympics with an Olympic record of 75.02 m.
Olga Kuzhela
Olga Petrovna Kuzhela (Ольга Петровна Кужела), Russian artistic swimmer born 1985 in Leningrad; 2008 Beijing Olympic team gold (99.500), five world and three European titles, now Stanford assistant coach.
Olga Ladyzhenskaya (Ольга Александровна Ладыженская)
Olga Ladyzhenskaya (Ольга Александровна Ладыженская), born 1922 and died 2004, was a Russian mathematician known for proving global unique solvability of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations.
Olga Levina Akopyan
Olga Levina Akopyan (Ольга Сергеевна Левина-Акопян), née Levina, Russian handball playmaker born 1985 in Volgograd; competed as Olga Levina (London 2012, 8th) and Olga Akopyan (Rio 2016 gold); later CSKA and Russia coach.
Olga Merediz
Olga Merediz (born 1956, Guantánamo, Cuba) is a Cuban-American actress; she originated Abuela Claudia in In the Heights on Broadway, earning a 2008 Tony nomination, reprised the role in the 2021 film, and sings Abuela Alma in Encanto.
Olga Nazarova
Olga Vladimirovna Nazarova (Ольга Владимировна Назарова), born 1965, Soviet/Russian 400 m sprinter; two Olympic 4×400 m relay golds (1988, 1992), 1988 400 m bronze, and 3:15.17 world record still standing.
Olga Novokshchenova
Olga Novokshchenova (Ольга Николаевна Новокщенова), born 1974, Russian synchronized swimmer; two Olympic team golds (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004); later head coach in Port Antonio, Jamaica.
Olga of Kiev
Olga of Kiev (Ольга, died 969) was regent of Kievan Rus' after Igor's 945 murder, first Riurikid Christian (baptized as Helena), subject of the Drevlian revenge legend, and an Orthodox saint; distinct from St. Olga of Kwethluk (Alaska).
Olga Orozco
Olga Orozco, full name Olga Nilda Gugliotta Orozco (1920–1999), was an Argentine poet and journalist of the Generación del 40, known for dreamlike, mystical poetry and major prizes including the Juan Rulfo Prize.
Olga Pall
Olga Pall (Pall-Scartezzini), Austrian alpine skier born 1947 in Göstling an der Ybbs; 1968 Grenoble Olympic downhill gold medalist, 1968 downhill World Cup titleholder, three World Cup wins, later ÖSV Vice-President.
Olga Pylyova Medvedtseva
Olga Pylyova-Medvedtseva (Olga Pyleva, Olga Medvedtseva), Russian biathlete born 1975 in Borodino; two Olympic golds (2002 pursuit, 2010 relay), 2006 carphedon doping disqualification, six world titles.
Olga Rypakova
Olga Rypakova (Ольга Рыпакова), Kazakh triple jumper born 1984 in Oskemen; 2012 Olympic champion, 2008 silver, 2016 bronze, 2010 world indoor champion, Asian record 15.25 m.
Olga Sedakova
Olga Sedakova (Ольга Александровна Седакова), born 1949 in Moscow, is a Russian poet, translator, essayist, and philologist whose Christian-rooted poetry circulated unofficially in the USSR before 1989.
Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina (Ольга Шишигина), Kazakh hurdler born 1968 in Almaty; 2000 Sydney Olympic champion in the 100 m hurdles, Kazakhstan's first Olympic champion, Asian record holder at 12.44, retired 2002.
Olga Shkurnova
Olga Shkurnova (Ольга Шкурнова, Pozdnyakova; born 1962) is a Ukrainian former volleyball player who won Olympic gold with the Soviet Union at Seoul 1988, later playing and coaching in Switzerland.
Olga Silhanova
Olga Šilhánová (1920–1986), Czechoslovak artistic gymnast, won women's team gold at the 1948 London Olympics with a total of 445.450, her only Games, marked by teammate Eliška Misáková's death from polio.
Olga Slyusareva
Olga Slyusareva (Ольга Слюсарева), Russian track cyclist born 1969 in Ukraine; 2004 Olympic points race champion, four straight world points titles 2001–2004, two scratch world titles, three Olympic medals.
Olga Smirnova (theoretical physicist)
Olga Smirnova (Ольга Смирнова) is a theoretical physicist who leads the Strong Field Theory Group at the Max Born Institute in Berlin and works on attosecond physics.
Olga Solovova
Olga Solovova (Ольга Анатольевна Соловова (-Цейцина)), also Olga Tseytsina, Soviet middle-blocker volleyball player with Uralochka Sverdlovsk; born 1953 in Ussuriysk; won gold in women's volleyball at the 1980 Moscow Olympics for the USSR.
Olga Sosnovska
Olga Sosnovska (Olga Sosnowska) is a Polish-born actress (born 1972) who moved to England at 11 and works in the UK and US. Known for Lena Kundera on All My Children (2002–2004), the first same-sex kiss on American daytime TV, and Fiona Carter on Spooks/MI-5.
Olga Strazheva
Olga Strazheva (Ольга Стражева, born 1972, Zaporizhzhia) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast, 1988 Olympic and 1989 World team champion whose Seoul beam injury cut short her career.
Olga Sukharnova
Olga Sukharnova (Ольга Леонидовна Сухарнова), born 1955, Soviet center; two Olympic basketball golds (1976, 1980), two world titles, nine European titles, Spartak Moscow Oblast, later French champion and 2000 Hall of Fame inductee.
Olga Tañón
Olga Tañón, born 1967, is a Puerto Rican singer from Toa Baja who became a leading female voice of merengue from the early 1990s.
Olga Tass Lemhenyi
Olga Tass-Lemhényi (Lemhényiné Tass Olga), Hungarian artistic gymnast, 1929-2020, the only Hungarian woman to compete in four Olympics, winning six medals including 1956 team portable apparatus gold, later a coach and judge.