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Oliver Mandić
Oliver Mandić (Оливер Мандић), born 1953 in Titovo Užice, is a Serbian pop-rock singer and composer famous for his 1981 debut album Probaj me and the TV show Beograd noću.
Oliver Masucci
Oliver Masucci (born 1968, Stuttgart) is a German actor, Hitler in Er ist wieder da, Ulrich Nielsen in Dark, Fassbinder in Enfant Terrible; Deutscher Filmpreis 2021 winner.
Oliver McCall
Oliver McCall, "The Atomic Bull" (born 1965, Chicago), American heavyweight boxer; WBC champion who upset Lennox Lewis by TKO2 in 1994, lost to Bruno, broke down in the 1997 rematch, and fought into his sixties.
Oliver Mcdonald
Oliver MacDonald refers to several athletes: Joseph Oliver MacDonald (1904–1973), American 1924 Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist and world record runner, and Oliver MacDonald (born 2007), British middle-distance runner.
Oliver Miller
Oliver Miller, "Big O" (1970-2025), American NBA center from Fort Worth, Arkansas star, 1990 Final Four, drafted 22nd by Phoenix in 1992, 1993 Finals, heaviest NBA player, died at 54.
Oliver North
Oliver North (born 1943), retired Marine lieutenant colonel and National Security Council staffer, central figure of the Iran-contra affair; convicted 1989, convictions vacated 1990-91; later Fox News host and 66th NRA president.
Oliver Norwood
Oliver Norwood (born 1991, Burnley) is a Northern Irish midfielder at Stockport County, formerly of Manchester United, Huddersfield, Reading, Brighton, Fulham and Sheffield United; 57 Northern Ireland caps, Euro 2016 free-kick assist for McAuley's goal vs Ukraine.
Oliver Otis Howard
Oliver Otis Howard (1830–1909), Union major general, first and only Freedmen's Bureau commissioner (1865–1872), founder and namesake of Howard University, later led the Nez Perce campaign and retired in 1894.
Oliver P. Morton
Oliver P. Morton (Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, 1823-1877), Indiana's Civil War governor and Radical Republican U.S. senator; lost the 1876 Republican presidential nomination to Rutherford B. Hayes and died in office in 1877.
Oliver P. Smith
Oliver P. Smith (Oliver Prince Smith, 1893–1977), USMC general nicknamed "the Professor," commanded the 1st Marine Division at Inchon and the Chosin Reservoir breakout in Korea; not Gen. Eric M. Smith.
Oliver Peake
Oliver Peake (Ollie John Peake, born 2006, Geelong) is an Australian left-handed batter and off-spin bowler for Victoria, Melbourne Renegades, and Australia ODIs; 2024 U19 World Cup winner, 2026 U19 captain, youngest Australian specialist ODI debutant.
Oliver Peck
Oliver Peck (born 1971) is an American Traditional tattoo artist, co-owner of Dallas's Elm Street Tattoo, Guinness record holder (415 number-13 tattoos in 24 hours), and Ink Master judge seasons 1-13 until his 2020 blackface controversy exit.
Oliver Penrose
Oliver Penrose is a British mathematical physicist known for the Penrose–Onsager criterion for Bose–Einstein condensation, brother of Roger Penrose, and a Royal Society Fellow elected in 1987.
Oliver Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips is a British tropical ecologist at the University of Leeds, known for the RAINFOR Amazon forest monitoring network and elected FRS in 2020.
Oliver Platt
Oliver Platt (born 1960, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian-born American character actor of stage, film, and TV, known for The Three Musketeers, The West Wing, Huff, Chicago Med's Dr. Charles, and The Bear, with five Emmy nominations and a Tony nomination.
Oliver Plunket
Oliver Plunket was Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, executed at Tyburn in 1681 on Popish Plot testimony and canonized in 1975.
Oliver Popplewell
Sir Oliver Bury Popplewell (1927-2024), British High Court judge and Cambridge University wicketkeeper-batsman; chaired the Bradford City fire inquiry, presided over the Aitken v Guardian libel case, and was MCC president 1994-96.
Oliver Pybus
Oliver Pybus is a British biologist at Oxford known for founding phylodynamics, the study of pathogen evolution and ecology, and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2022.
Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)
Oliver Queen (Arrowverse) is Stephen Amell's portrayal of DC's Green Arrow on The CW's Arrow (2012-2020) and its spin-off franchise. A shipwrecked billionaire presumed dead for five years, he leads Team Arrow, reveals his identity, and dies saving the multiverse in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Oliver Rando
Oliver J. Rando is a molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School known for a 2010 Cell study showing a father's diet alters offspring metabolism.
Oliver Reed
Oliver Reed (Robert Oliver Reed, 1938–1999), English actor known for a macho image and hellraiser lifestyle; starred in Oliver!, Women in Love, The Devils, and Gladiator, dying in Malta mid-shoot.
Oliver Reiser
Oliver Reiser is a German organic chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Regensburg since 1997, known for copper photoredox catalysis and C–H functionalization.
Oliver S. Wenger
Oliver S. Wenger (born 1974) is a Swiss inorganic chemist and professor at the University of Basel whose research group studies photoactive coordination complexes and photoredox catalysis.
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), British-born neurologist and author in New York, wrote Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; known for narrative case histories, L-dopa work at Beth Abraham, and later accuracy controversies.
Oliver Sartor
Oliver Sartor, also known as A. Oliver Sartor, is an American medical oncologist known for leading phase 3 trials of radium-223 and lutetium-177 prostate cancer therapies.
Oliver Savell
Oliver Savell (born 2009) is an English child actor, also credited as Oliver Saville in some listings, known for Young Alan Carr in ITVX's Changing Ends, Belfast (2021), The Piper (2023), and the RTS Award-winning comedy performance.
Oliver Seitz
Oliver Seitz (born 1966) is a German chemical biologist and professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, known for chemical protein synthesis and nucleic acid-templated chemistry.
Oliver Sipple
Oliver "Billy" Sipple, Detroit-born Marine veteran of Vietnam, deflected Sara Jane Moore's .38 revolver as she shot at President Gerald Ford outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel on September 22, 1975; his subsequent outing and failed privacy suit became a landmark First Amendment case.
Oliver Skipp
Oliver Skipp, "Skippy", English defensive midfielder from Welwyn Garden City; Tottenham academy graduate with 106 appearances, Norwich loan Championship title 2021, England U21 Euro winner 2023, Leicester City from August 2024.
Oliver Smith (designer)
Oliver Smith (1918–1994), American scenic designer and producer, not the jeweler or eyewear brand. Designed My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Camelot; co-directed American Ballet Theatre 1945–1980; papers at Library of Congress.