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Oliver H. Lowry
Oliver H. Lowry (1910–1996) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for the Lowry protein assay, one of the most cited papers in science.
Olivér Halassy
Olivér Halassy (Haltmayer), Hungarian water polo player and swimmer, 1909-1946: Olympic silver 1928, gold 1932 and 1936; leg amputee; 1931 European 1500 m freestyle champion; murdered in Budapest.
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy (Norvell Hardy, 1892-1957), also known as Babe Hardy, American comic actor and silent-film "heavy" who teamed with Stan Laurel in over 100 films from 1927; The Music Box won the 1931-32 Academy Award for best short.
Oliver Hart (economist)
Sir Oliver Hart, born in London in 1948, is a Harvard economist who shared the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for contributions to contract theory.
Oliver Hazard Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry (1785–1819) was a U.S. Navy officer who won the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, receiving the first surrender of an entire Royal Navy squadron; famed for "We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
The Oliver Hazard Perry class is a class of guided-missile frigates built for the United States Navy from 1977, totaling 51 American ships plus 20 for foreign navies.
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925) was a self-educated English mathematical physicist who reduced Maxwell's theory to four vector equations and developed transmission line theory and operational calculus.
Oliver Heldens
Oliver Heldens (Olivier J. L. Heldens, born 1995, Rotterdam), Dutch future house DJ and producer, also HI-LO; "Gecko" hit UK #1; runs Heldeep, OH2, HILOMATIK labels.
Oliver Hermanus
Oliver Hermanus (born 1983, Cape Town) is a South African film director and writer, also known for Skoonheid/Beauty, Moffie, and Living. His The Endless River was the first South African film nominated for Venice's Golden Lion, and The History of Sound competed at Cannes 2025.
Oliver Hicks
Oliver Hicks, known as Ollie Hicks, is a British barebow archer who set the senior 50-meter world record at age 15 in 2022 and holds junior world records.
Oliver Hobert
Oliver Hobert is a German-born American neurogeneticist at Columbia University and HHMI Investigator known for defining gene regulatory networks that assign each neuron its identity in C. elegans.
Oliver Howes
Oliver D. Howes is a British psychiatrist-scientist who heads Psychosis Studies at King's College London and is known for PET imaging of dopamine in schizophrenia.
Oliver Hudson
Oliver Hudson (Oliver Rutledge Hudson), American actor born 1976 in Los Angeles; son of Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, brother of Kate Hudson. Known for Rules of Engagement, Nashville, Dawson's Creek, Happy Gilmore 2, and the Sibling Revelry podcast.
Oliver Irow
Oliver Irow (born 2006) is an English winger and forward from Westminster, a Tottenham Hotspur academy product on loan at Plymouth Argyle for 2026/27, previously scoring 4 goals in 18 games on loan at Mansfield Town.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Oliver Mansour Jackson-Cohen), English actor born 1986 in London, known for Luke Crain in The Haunting of Hill House, Peter Quint in Bly Manor, and Adrian Griffin in The Invisible Man; son of designer Betty Jackson.
Oliver James (actor)
Oliver James (birth name Oliver James Hutson), English actor born 1980, starred as Ian Wallace in What a Girl Wants (2003) and as Jay in Raise Your Voice (2004); retired from acting in 2012, now a psychotherapist in Guildford, England. Not the psychotherapist Oliver James born 1953.
Oliver Kahn
Oliver Rolf Kahn, "Der Titan", German goalkeeper born 1969; Bayern Munich 1994–2008, eight Bundesliga titles, 2001 Champions League, 86 Germany caps, and the only goalkeeper to win the World Cup Golden Ball (2002).
Oliver Kegel
Oliver Kegel (Oliver Michael Kegel), born 1961 in Berlin, German sprint canoeist; Olympic gold in K-4 1000 m at Barcelona 1992, eighth at Los Angeles 1984, and seven Flatwater World Championship medals 1981–1993.
Oliver Kirchner
Oliver Kirchner (born 1966, Magdeburg) is an AfD politician, member of the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag since 2016 and AfD parliamentary group co-leader with Ulrich Siegmund since 2022; former automotive mechanic and dealer, AfD lead candidate in 2021.
Oliver Kirk
Oliver Kirk (Oliver Leonard Kirk, 1884-1960), American boxer, only Olympic boxer to win two golds in separate weight classes at one Games, taking bantamweight and featherweight titles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics; later a professional with a 4-8-1 record.
Oliver Koletzki
Oliver Koletzki, born 1974 in Braunschweig, Germany, is a Berlin-based DJ and producer who broke through with "Der Mückenschwarm" in 2005 and founded the label Stil vor Talent.
Oliver Korn
Oliver Korn (born 1984, Düsseldorf) is a German field hockey forward, two-time Olympic champion (Beijing 2008, London 2012) and Rio 2016 bronze medalist with Germany; clubs Düsseldorfer HC and UHC Hamburg.
Oliver Kurtz
Oliver Michael Kurtz, born 1971 in Cologne, German field hockey forward; 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold (2-1 final win over Australia), 33 German caps 1991-95, later international coach; distinct from rower Oliver Bub and diver Frank Kurtz.
Oliver Labs
Oliver Labs is a geometer best known for constructing the Labs septic in 2004, a degree-7 surface with 99 ordinary double points, the most known for any septic.
Oliver Letwin
Sir Oliver Letwin, British Conservative politician, MP for West Dorset 1997-2019, Minister for Government Policy and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 2010-2016, coalition architect, and author of the 2019 Letwin amendment delaying Brexit deal approval.
Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851–1940) was a British physicist who pioneered radio tuning and wireless telegraphy, then became the first Principal of the University of Birmingham.
Oliver Loving
Oliver Loving (1812–1867) was a Kentucky-born Texas cattle rancher who pioneered the Shawnee, Western, and Goodnight-Loving trails, and died in 1867 after a Comanche attack while driving cattle to New Mexico.
Oliver Luck
Oliver Luck (born 1960, Cleveland) is a former Houston Oilers quarterback, West Virginia star, and sports executive: NFL Europe president, Houston Dynamo president, WVU athletic director, NCAA executive, and XFL commissioner; father of Andrew Luck.
Oliver Lynn
Oliver Lynn (1926-1996), called Doolittle, Doo, or Mooney, was Loretta Lynn's husband of 48 years; an army veteran who married her in 1948, bought her first guitar, and drove her early career.
Oliver M. W. Sprague
Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague was an American monetary economist, longtime Harvard professor of banking, adviser to the Bank of England, and 1937 president of the American Economic Association.