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Oliver Smith (musician)
Oliver Smith (Oliver Jack Smith) is an English trance DJ and producer based in London, the first artist signed to Anjunabeats, with a 2025 debut album, Footprints.
Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies (1925–2017) was a British-born American geneticist and biochemist who invented gene targeting in mice and shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Oliver Soehnlein
Oliver Soehnlein is a German immunologist studying neutrophils in atherosclerosis; since 2021 he has been Professor and Director of the Institute of Experimental Pathology at the University of Münster.
Oliver Stegle
Oliver Stegle is a German computational biologist who develops statistical and machine-learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomics, heading a joint DKFZ and EMBL division in Heidelberg.
Oliver Steinbock
Oliver Steinbock is a German chemist who grew up in Hameln and holds the Cottrell Family Professorship of Chemistry at Florida State University, known for research on pattern formation in excitable media and chemical gardens.
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (born 1946) is an American Oscar-winning director of Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street, JFK, Nixon, and W., a twice-wounded Vietnam veteran known for politically charged, controversial historical films.
Oliver Tambo
Oliver Tambo (OR, Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo, 1917–1993), South African lawyer and anti-apartheid leader who headed the ANC in exile as President 1967–1991, co-founded the ANC Youth League and Mandela and Tambo law firm, and returned as National Chairperson in 1991.
Óliver Torres
Óliver Torres Muñoz (born 1994, Navalmoral de la Mata) is a Spanish central midfielder at Monterrey; ex-Atlético, Porto, and Sevilla, winner of La Liga 2014, Primeira Liga 2018, and two Europa Leagues.
Oliver Tree
Oliver Tree (Oliver Tree Nickell, 1993-2026), American singer-songwriter and producer from Santa Cruz; albums Ugly Is Beautiful, Cowboy Tears, Alone in a Crowd; died in Rio de Janeiro helicopter collision.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, serialized in Bentley's Miscellany 1837-1839. An orphan's plea for more gruel became the classic indictment of the 1834 New Poor Law workhouse system.
Oliver Twist (1948 film)
Oliver Twist is a 1948 British drama directed by David Lean from Charles Dickens's novel, starring John Howard Davies as Oliver and Alec Guinness as Fagin.
Oliver Twist (2005 film)
Oliver Twist is a 2005 drama film directed by Roman Polanski, adapted from Charles Dickens's novel, starring Barney Clark as Oliver and Ben Kingsley as Fagin.
Oliver Twist (character)
Oliver Twist, protagonist of Dickens's Oliver Twist (The Parish Boy's Progress, serialized 1837-1839), a workhouse orphan aged 9-12 whose innocence anchors the novel's attack on the 1834 Poor Law; criticized as saintly and passive, endlessly adapted on screen and stage.
Oliver W. Press
Oliver W. Press was an American lymphoma physician-scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who pioneered antibody and CAR T-cell treatments and died in 2017.
Oliver Wakeman
Oliver Wakeman, born 1972, is an English progressive rock keyboardist and composer, eldest son of Rick Wakeman; he played keyboards in Yes 2008-2011, made Jabberwocky with Clive Nolan, and released Mother's Ruin and Anam Cara.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), the Great Dissenter, US Supreme Court associate justice 1902–1932, Civil War veteran, author of The Common Law, founder of legal realism, and advocate of judicial restraint and free-speech doctrine.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), American physician, anatomist, poet, and essayist; Harvard anatomy professor and dean; author of the Breakfast-Table essays and "Old Ironsides"; coined "anesthesia" and "Brahmin Caste of New England"; father of the Supreme Court justice.
Oliver Whatmuff
Oliver Whatmuff, born 2007 in Lancaster, is an English goalkeeper in Manchester City's academy, on loan at Stockport County; he won the 2026 National League play-off with Rochdale, saving two penalties, and caps for England U17 to U20.
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, known as Wolcott Gibbs, was an American analytical and inorganic chemist, Rumford Professor at Harvard from 1863 to 1887, remembered for introducing electrogravimetry.
Oliver Wrong
Oliver Murray Wrong (1925–2012) was a British nephrologist and professor of medicine at University College Hospital, London, remembered for his 1959 ammonium chloride test for renal tubular acidosis and for defining Dent's disease.
Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman, also known as Mercer Oliver Wyman, is a global management consulting firm headquartered in New York, founded in 1984 and owned by Marsh.
Oliver Zeidler
Oliver Zeidler (born 1996, Dachau) is a German single sculls rower, Olympic champion Paris 2024, four-time world champion (2019, 2022, 2023, 2026) and four-time European champion; former swimmer coached by his father Heino Zeidler.
Oliver!
Oliver! is Lionel Bart's 1960 British musical based on Dickens's Oliver Twist, premiered at the New Theatre, running 2,618 performances, adapted into an Oscar-winning 1968 film and revived at the Gielgud Theatre from 2024.
Oliver! (film)
Oliver! (1968), Carol Reed's film of Lionel Bart's stage musical from Dickens' Oliver Twist, produced by Romulus Films and Columbia, shot at Shepperton, won six Oscars including Best Picture, the only G-rated Best Picture winner.
Oliver's Army
Oliver's Army is a 1979 Elvis Costello and the Attractions single from Armed Forces, his biggest UK hit at number two, an anti-recruitment song named for Cromwell's New Model Army, later revised lyrically.
OliverH. Lowry
Oliver H. Lowry (1910–1996) was an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis who developed the Lowry protein assay, the most highly cited paper in science.
Oliveriana
Oliveriana Rchb.f. is a genus of 15 accepted Oncidiinae orchid species native from western South America to Guyana, named for botanist Daniel Oliver; type species O. egregia, described 1876.
Oliverse
Oliverse is the alias of Ryan Oliphant, a British dubstep and bass music producer from Hartlepool, England, active since 2015 and best known as a Disciple label artist.
Olivet Nazarene University
Olivet Nazarene University (ONU), founded 1907 in Georgetown, Illinois, is a private Christian liberal arts university in Bourbonnais, Illinois, affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene; about 3,500 students, HLC-accredited since 1956, president Gregg Chenoweth.
Olivetheboy
Olivetheboy, the stage name of Ghanaian singer Joel Ofori Bonsu, is an Afrobeats artiste who broke out in 2023 with "GoodSin" and signed with Columbia Records.