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Oliver C. Boileau
Oliver C. Boileau was an aerospace engineer and executive who led the B-2 stealth bomber program and retired in 1995 as Grumman's president and CEO.
Oliver C. Mullins
Oliver C. Mullins is a petroleum geochemist, Schlumberger Fellow, and National Academy of Engineering member known for downhole fluid analysis, the Yen-Mullins model, and reservoir fluid geodynamics.
Oliver Cheshire
Oliver Luke Cheshire, British fashion model scouted by Select Model Management, face of Calvin Klein Jeans, Hugo Boss, Ralph Lauren and M&S, Mr Porter Style Councillor, CHÉ label founder, and Pixie Lott's partner.
Oliver Chris
Oliver Chris is a British actor and writer, born 1978 in Tunbridge Wells; trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. Known for The Office, Green Wing, One Man, Two Guvnors, King Charles III, Trying, Rivals, and the play Jack Absolute Flies Again.
Oliver Cope
Oliver Cope (1902–1994) was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for parathyroid surgery, burn care after Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, and challenging radical mastectomy.
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English commander who led the parliamentary cause in the Civil Wars of 1642 to 1651 and ruled as Lord Protector from 1653 to 1658.
Oliver Cromwell's head
Oliver Cromwell's head: severed in the 1661 posthumous execution at Tyburn, displayed on a spike over Westminster Hall, sold as the Wilkinson head in 1815, and buried at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960.
Oliver Curtis
Oliver Curtis is an Australian businessman who co-founded the AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies in 2019 and is its co-CEO, owning 13 percent; he was jailed for insider trading in 2016.
Oliver D. Schein
Oliver D. Schein is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute, known for research on contact-lens infection and cataract surgery safety.
Oliver Daumke
Oliver Daumke is a German structural biologist and senior group leader at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, known for crystal structures of the membrane-scission GTPase dynamin and of Mgm1.
Oliver De Coque
Oliver De Coque, born Oliver Sunday Akanite (1947–2008), was a Nigerian Igbo highlife guitarist, singer, and bandleader who created ogene highlife, led Expo '76, and recorded over 73 albums.
Oliver Dimon Kellogg
Oliver Dimon Kellogg (1878–1932) was an American mathematician who worked in potential theory and integral equations, wrote Foundations of Potential Theory (1929), and taught at Harvard.
Oliver Dowden
Sir Oliver Dowden KCB CBE, Conservative MP for Hertsmere since 2015; UK Deputy Prime Minister 2023-2024 under Rishi Sunak, former culture secretary and Conservative Party co-chair, later briefly shadow deputy prime minister.
Oliver Dowling Kingsley Jr.
Oliver Dowling Kingsley Jr. is an American nuclear power executive and engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, known for turning around the TVA and ComEd nuclear fleets.
Oliver E. Buckley Prize
The Oliver E. Buckley Prize, or Buckley Prize, is an annual American Physical Society award for contributions to condensed matter physics, established in 1952 by Bell Laboratories.
Oliver E. Nelson Jr.
Oliver E. Nelson Jr. (1920–2001) was an American maize geneticist at Purdue and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Oliver E. Williamson
Oliver E. Williamson (1932–2020) was an American economist at the University of California, Berkeley, a founding father of transaction cost economics who shared the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Oliver Einsle
Oliver Einsle (born 1970) is a German biochemist and structural biologist, Full Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Freiburg since 2008, known for high-resolution nitrogenase structures.
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth (1745–1807), Connecticut lawyer, senator, and third Chief Justice of the United States (1796–1800), drafted the Judiciary Act of 1789, shaped the Connecticut Compromise, and shifted the early Court toward unified per curiam opinions before resigning to serve as minister to France.
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley (1887–1959) was an American telecommunications engineer who joined Bell System research in 1914 and served as president of Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1940 to 1950.
Oliver Fiehn
Oliver Fiehn is a German-trained analytical chemist, professor at the UC Davis Genome Center since 2004, known for GC-MS metabolomics, the FiehnLib spectral library, and spectral entropy methods.
Oliver Finnegan
Oliver Finnegan, actor (IMDb nm9148177), child West End performer in Matilda the Musical and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, later The Watchers (2024), Outlander, We Are Lady Parts, Video Nasty; distinct from the National Archives historian of the same name.
Oliver Fix
Oliver Fix, German slalom canoeist (born 1973, Augsburg), 1995 K1 world champion and 1996 Atlanta Olympic K1 gold medalist; later British national coach; not the hurdler David Oliver.
Oliver Fringer
Oliver Fringer is a Stanford professor who develops numerical models of coastal ocean, river, lake, and estuary dynamics, and received a PECASE award in 2008.
Oliver G. Schmidt
Oliver G. Schmidt, born 1971 in Kiel, is a German physicist and nanotechnologist working on functional nanostructures, micromotors, and microrobotics, and winner of the 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.
Oliver Gilbert
Oliver Gilbert is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for Florida's 24th congressional district in 2026, after serving as mayor of Miami Gardens and chair of the Miami-Dade county commission.
Oliver Glasner
Oliver Glasner, Austrian football manager (born 1974, Salzburg), head coach of Nottingham Forest; won the 2022 Europa League with Eintracht Frankfurt and the FA Cup, Community Shield, and 2026 Conference League with Crystal Palace, known for a 3-4-2-1 vertical pressing system.
Oliver Golding
Oliver Golding, British tennis player (born 1993, Richmond), 2011 US Open boys' singles champion over Jiri Vesely, 2010 Youth Olympic doubles gold, career-high ATP 327 in 2014, retired, 2017 comeback.
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Irish poet, essayist, dramatist, and novelist of the London literary world, author of The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer; founding member of Johnson's Club, not the Canadian poet or the university.
Oliver Gutfleisch
Oliver Gutfleisch is a German materials scientist, professor of Functional Materials at TU Darmstadt since 2012, known for magnetic cooling research, permanent magnets, and the recycling of rare earths.