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Olive leaf extract
Olive leaf extract, from Olea europaea leaves, is a polyphenol-rich supplement and food ingredient standardized to oleuropein and hydroxytyrosol; FDA issued a no-questions GRAS letter (GRN 1119) in 2024.
Olive May (Filipino actress)
Olive May (Olive May Sophia Bihag, born 2004, Cebu City) is a Filipino actress and former P-pop group member signed to Sparkle GMA Artist Center, known for TOLS, MAKA, Forever Young, and Born to Shine.
Olive mill waste
Olive mill waste is the solid and liquid residue generated when olives are processed into olive oil, produced at large scale across the Mediterranean basin.
Olive Morris
Olive Elaine Morris (1952–1979), Jamaican-born British activist in Brixton; British Black Panthers member, co-founder of the Brixton Black Women's Group and OWAAD, squatter at 121 Railton Road, died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 27.
Olive Oatman
Olive Ann Oatman (1837–1903), American Indian captive and lecturer; survivor of the 1851 Oatman massacre on the Gila River, held by Yavapai and Mohave for five years, tattooed, ransomed at Fort Yuma in 1856, subject of Stratton's Captivity of the Oatman Girls.
Olive oil
Olive oil, the oil pressed from Olea europaea fruit, graded extra virgin (free acidity ≤0.8%), virgin, refined, or pomace by IOC and USDA standards; EU produces ~67% of world supply; UC Davis studies found many imported "extra virgin" oils fail standards.
Olive Osmond
Olive May Davis Osmond (1925–2004), 'Mother Osmond', matriarch of Utah's Osmond singing family; mother of Donny and Marie; founder of the Osmond Foundation, precursor to Children's Miracle Network.
Olive Oyl
Olive Oyl is a comic-strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar for Thimble Theatre, debuting December 19, 1919, nearly ten years before Popeye; originally Ham Gravy's girlfriend, she became Popeye's sweetheart, star of Fleischer and Famous Studios cartoons voiced by Mae Questel and others, played by Shelley Duvall in 1980, and public domain in her original form in the United States.
Olive pomace oil
Olive pomace oil, also called orujo oil, is extracted with solvents from olive pomace, the solid residue of olive oil production. Refined grade has acidity ≤0.3 g/100 g; it legally cannot be sold as "olive oil" in the EU.
Olive ridley sea turtle
The olive ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys olivacea, is a small sea turtle of tropical oceans worldwide, best known for the arribada, when thousands of females nest together.
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) was a South African novelist, feminist, socialist, and anti-war campaigner whose The Story of an African Farm (1883) is called the first great South African novel.
Olive Senior
Olive Senior, born 1941, is a Jamaican writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction who has lived in Toronto since 1993 and served as Jamaica's Poet Laureate.
Olive snail
Olive snail, or dwarf olive (Olivella, Swainson 1831), a genus of small predatory marine gastropods in Olividae; sandy-beach species like O. columellaris suspension-feed, migrate with tides, and switch to carnivory.
Olive theory
Olive theory: a TikTok-viral compatibility idea from the How I Met Your Mother pilot, claiming a couple works when one loves and one hates olives; unscientific, with a sacrifice-based twist.
Olive Thomas
Olive Thomas (Olive Duffy, 1894–1920), American silent film actress and Ziegfeld Follies girl, wife of Jack Pickford, star of The Flapper (1920); died of mercury bichloride poisoning in Paris, ruled accidental, one of the first Hollywood scandals.
Olive tree of Vouves
The Olive tree of Vouves (Ελιά Βουβών) in Ano Vouves, Kolymvari, Chania, Crete, is a grafted monumental olive tree still bearing fruit, claimed at 2,000 to over 4,000 years old, protected as a natural monument since 1997.
Olive Watkins Smith
Olive Watkins Smith (1901–1983) was an American biochemist who directed the Fearing Research Laboratory in Boston and wrote the 1948 paper promoting DES in pregnancy.
Oliver (chimpanzee)
Oliver, the "Humanzee," was an upright-walking chimpanzee marketed as a missing link; 1996-1998 genetic tests confirmed 2N=48 and Pan troglodytes troglodytes from Gabon; he died in Texas in 2012, aged at least 55.
Oliver & Company
Oliver & Company (1988) is a Disney animated musical adapting Oliver Twist with animals in 1980s New York, directed by George Scribner, voiced by Joey Lawrence and Billy Joel, grossing $53.3M domestically.
Oliver & Company (soundtrack)
Oliver & Company (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the 1988 Walt Disney Records album for the animated film, with songs by Billy Joel, Huey Lewis, Bette Midler, Ruth Pointer, and Rubén Blades, a J.A.C. Redford score, and Howard Ashman's first Disney lyrics.
Oliver A. Cornely
Oliver A. Cornely (Oliver Andreas Cornely) is a German infectious diseases physician-scientist at University Hospital Cologne who led the 2007 posaconazole prophylaxis trial and the 2019 global mucormycosis guideline.
Oliver Anthony
Oliver Anthony Music, born Christopher Anthony Lunsford, is a Virginia country-folk singer whose 2023 self-released single "Rich Men North of Richmond" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first artist with no prior chart history to do so.
Oliver Bearman
Oliver Bearman (born 2005, Chelmsford) is a British Formula One driver for Haas. Ferrari Driver Academy graduate who debuted for Ferrari at the 2024 Saudi Arabian GP, then became the first driver to score points on debut for two F1 teams.
Oliver Belmont
Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont (1858-1908), New York financier, publisher of the Verdict, and Democratic U.S. Representative (57th Congress, 1901-1903); brother of Perry Belmont, son of August Belmont, and ally of William Jennings Bryan.
Oliver Bierhoff
Oliver Bierhoff, born 1968, German striker who won EURO 1996 with the first major-final golden goal, Serie A top scorer 1998, AC Milan champion 1999, and DFB national team director 2004-2022.
Oliver Billker
Oliver Billker is a German-born malaria researcher, Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of MIMS at Umeå University since 2018, elected an EMBO Member in 2024.
Oliver Bleddyn
Oliver Bleddyn (born 2002, Plymouth, England) is an Australian track and road cyclist, Olympic gold medallist in the men's team pursuit at Paris 2024 with Welsford, Leahy, and O'Brien, and a Jayco-AlUla signing.
Oliver Brown (American activist)
Oliver Leon Brown (1918-1961), Topeka welder and AME pastor, was lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), recruited by the NAACP after his daughter Linda was denied entry to Sumner Elementary.
Oliver Bruce Linton
Oliver Bruce Linton is a British econometrician and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, best known for developing nonparametric and semiparametric estimation methods.
Oliver Burke
Oliver Jasen Burke (born 1997, Kirkcaldy) is a Scottish forward for Union Berlin and Scotland (13 caps). Record £13m and £15m transfers to RB Leipzig and West Brom; known for pace and late goals.