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Olivia Lum

Olivia Lum (Lum Ooi Lin) is a Singapore-based entrepreneur who founded water-treatment group Hyflux in 1989 and became the first female EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year winner in 2011.

Olivia Manning

Olivia Mary Manning (1908–1980), British novelist of the Fortunes of War sequence, the Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy, based on her wartime flight with husband Reggie Smith through Bucharest, Athens, Cairo, and Jerusalem.

Olivia Maurel

Olivia Maurel (born 1991) is a French-American anti-surrogacy activist born via traditional surrogacy in Kentucky, USA; spokesperson of the Casablanca Declaration and author of ¿Dónde estás, mamá?

Olivia Munn

Olivia Munn (Lisa Olivia Munn, born 1980) is an American actor and host known for Attack of the Show!, The Newsroom's Sloan Sabbith, and X-Men: Apocalypse's Psylocke; also a breast cancer advocate married to John Mulaney.

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John (1948–2022), also known as Dame Olivia, was a British-born Australian singer and actress; Grammy-winning country-pop star, Sandy in Grease (1978), the Physical hitmaker, and a cancer-research advocate.

Olivia Nova

Olivia Nova, stage name of Lexi Rose Forte (1997–2018), was an American pornographic actress from Coon Rapids, Minnesota, active from March 2017 with LA Direct Models; she died in Las Vegas aged 20, the fourth performer death in three months.

Olivia Nuzzi

Olivia Nuzzi, American political journalist and former Vanity Fair West Coast editor, previously New York magazine Washington correspondent; her career was upended in 2024 by an undisclosed relationship with RFK Jr., and she published the memoir American Canto in 2025.

Olivia O'Brien

Olivia O'Brien, full name Olivia Gail O'Brien, is an American singer-songwriter known for "i hate u, i love u," her 2016 hit with gnash that reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Olivia Olson

Olivia Olson (born 1992) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and screenwriter, the voice of Marceline the Vampire Queen on Adventure Time and Vanessa Doofenshmirtz on Phineas and Ferb, who played Joanna singing "All I Want for Christmas Is You" in Love Actually (2003).

Olivia Pagani

Olivia Pagani is a Swiss-Italian medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, best known for leading the TEXT and SOFT trials of ovarian suppression and the POSITIVE trial allowing pregnancy after breast cancer.

Olivia Palermo

Olivia Palermo (born 1986) is an American fashion entrepreneur and former reality-TV personality from Manhattan, known for MTV's The City (2008–2010), her oliviapalermo.com website founded in 2011, and the Olivia Palermo Group lifestyle company established in 2018.

Olivia Ponton

Olivia Ponton (born 2002, Naples, Florida) is an American model and TikTok influencer, an IMG Models signee, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit rookie of 2022, and Victoria's Secret PINK campaign model, distinct from other creators named Olivia.

Olivia Pope

Olivia Pope is the fictional protagonist of ABC's Scandal (2012-2018), played by Kerry Washington; a Washington fixer inspired by Judy Smith and the first Black network-drama heroine since Get Christie Love!.

Olivia Reeves

Olivia Lynn Reeves (born 2003, Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American Olympic weightlifter, 71 kg gold medalist at Paris 2024 and first US woman atop the Olympic lifting podium, later world champion and record holder at 77 kg.

Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo, American singer-songwriter and actor from Disney's Bizaardvark and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series; broke through with "drivers license" (2021), youngest artist to debut atop the Hot 100, albums Sour, GUTS, and you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.

Olivia Rodrigo: One Night Only at Warsaw

Olivia Rodrigo: One Night Only at Warsaw, billed One Night Only: Live at Warsaw, was a surprise $25, in-person-ticket-only concert on 6 August 2026 at the roughly 1,000-capacity Warsaw venue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, previewing her album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.

Olivia Ross

Olivia Ross, French-British actress born 1992 in Paris, Guildhall-trained, Globe Theatre Shakespeare roles; known for Knightfall, The Old Guard, The Universal Theory, White Bird; distinct from Olivia Grey Ross and other namesakes.

Olivia Ruiz

Olivia Ruiz, stage name of Olivia Blanc, is a French singer-songwriter born in 1980 in Carcassonne, a 2001 Star Academy semi-finalist turned award-winning recording artist.

Olivia S. Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell is an American economist at the Wharton School known as a founder of modern pension research and the "Big Three" financial literacy questions.

Olivia Sanabia

Olivia Sanabia (Olivia Shae Sanabia), American actress and singer-songwriter born 2003 in Corona, California; starred as Kelly Quinn in Amazon's Just Add Magic and Charlotte Wrather in Disney Channel's Coop & Cami Ask the World.

Olivia Smoliga

Olivia Smoliga, born 1994 in Glenview, Illinois, is an American swimmer, two-time Olympian, Rio 2016 medley relay gold medalist, Tokyo 2020 relay bronze medalist, 2019 world 50m backstroke champion, and 2018 short-course worlds eight-gold record holder.

Olivia Thirlby

Olivia Thirlby (born 1986) is an American actress from New York City, trained at American Globe Theatre and RADA, known for Leah in Juno (2007), Stephanie in The Wackness, Judge Anderson in Dredd (2012), Hero in Y: The Last Man, and CJ Ryan in Fire Country.

Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde (Olivia Jane Cockburn, born 1984) is an American actress and director known for House, Booksmart (2019), Don't Worry Darling (2022, 38% RT), and The Invite (2026, 97% RT).

Olivia Williams

Olivia Williams (Olivia Haigh Williams), English actress born 1968 in North London; RSC-trained Cambridge graduate cast by Kevin Costner in The Postman, known for Rushmore, The Sixth Sense, The Crown's Camilla, and Dune: Prophecy's Tula Harkonnen.

Olivia Wunsch

Olivia Wunsch, Australian sprint swimmer (born 2006, North Sydney, NSW), Carlile club, coach Michaela Pattinson. Olympic gold 4x100m freestyle relay Paris 2024 as heat swimmer; world gold same event Singapore 2025; five golds at 2023 World Juniors.

Olivier (lunar crater)

Olivier is a 78.45-km-wide, heavily degraded impact crater on the northern far side of the Moon at 58.72°N, 138.44°E, IAU-named in 1979 for American astronomer Charles Pollard Olivier (1884–1975).

Olivier Assayas

Olivier Assayas (born 1955, Paris) is a French director and former Cahiers du Cinéma critic; maker of Irma Vep, Carlos, Personal Shopper (tied Cannes Best Director 2016), and The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025).

Olivier Aubin-Mercier

Olivier Aubin-Mercier is a Canadian lightweight mixed martial artist from Montreal, a former national judo team member who went 7-5 in the UFC and won the PFL lightweight title in 2022 and 2023.

Olivier Bancoult

Olivier Bancoult is a Chagossian activist who has led the Chagos Refugee Group for decades in the legal fight for the right to return to the Chagos Islands.

Olivier Baudoin

Olivier Baudoin is a French chemist working in organic synthesis and organometallic catalysis, Full Professor at the University of Basel since 2015 and head of its chemistry department since 2021, known for palladium-catalyzed C(sp3)–H activation.