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Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Jean Blanchard, born in France in 1948, is a French macroeconomist at MIT who served as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2008 to 2015.
Olivier Buyoya
Olivier Buyoya is a Burundian development-finance executive at the International Finance Corporation, appointed Regional Director for West Africa in 2022 after mobilizing $2 billion in investments as Country Manager.
Olivier Civelli
Olivier Civelli is a Swiss-trained neuropharmacologist who holds the Nelson Chair at UC Irvine, cloned the D2 and D4 dopamine receptors, and discovered orphanin FQ in 1995.
Olivier Coibion
Olivier Coibion is an American and French macroeconomist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for survey and randomized-trial research on how households and firms form inflation expectations.
Olivier David Zerbib
Olivier David Zerbib (born 1983) is a French economist working on sustainable finance and asset pricing, an associate professor at CREST, ENSAE Paris, since 2023.
Olivier Delaire
Olivier Delaire is a materials scientist and associate professor at Duke University, formerly of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, known for neutron-scattering studies of phonons in energy materials.
Olivier Delaneau
Olivier Delaneau is a statistical geneticist and main developer of the SHAPEIT haplotype estimation software, whose tools are used in the 1000 Genomes Project, UK Biobank, and GTEx.
Olivier Delattre
Olivier Delattre is a French pediatrician and cancer geneticist, research director at Inserm, best known for identifying in 1992 the genes rearranged in Ewing's sarcoma, a childhood bone cancer.
Olivier Dellenbach
Olivier Dellenbach, born 1961 in Strasbourg, is a French software entrepreneur who founded eFront, sold to BlackRock for $1.3 billion in 2019, and then founded ChapsVision.
Olivier Devergne
Olivier Devergne is a Drosophila developmental geneticist and Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University, known for work on JAK/STAT signaling, epithelial polarity, and basement membrane deposition.
Olivier Devuyst
Olivier Devuyst is a Belgian physician-scientist in molecular nephrology, a Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Zurich known for work on aquaporins and inherited kidney diseases.
Olivier Durantel
Olivier Durantel is a quantitative finance executive and founding partner of Squarepoint Capital, a quant investment manager he co-founded as nQuant within Lehman Brothers Tokyo in 2000.
Olivier Faugeras
Olivier Faugeras is a French computer scientist known for computer vision and mathematical neuroscience, a Research Director Emeritus at Inria who won the 2014 Okawa Prize.
Olivier Faure
Olivier Faure is a French politician and leader of the Socialist Party. He has been a central figure in alliances between the Socialists, the left, and the ecologists.
Olivier Féron
Olivier Féron is a Belgian cancer researcher and professor at UCLouvain in Brussels who studies how the acidic tumor microenvironment reshapes cancer cell metabolism and ferroptosis.
Olivier Gevaert
Olivier Gevaert is a biomedical data scientist and Associate Professor at Stanford School of Medicine, known for machine learning methods that fuse imaging, pathology, and omics data for cancer prognosis.
Olivier Girault
Olivier Girault, born 1973 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, is a French handball left wing, 243-cap international, captain of the 2008 Olympic champions, and LNH president 2018-2020, later UNSS national director.
Olivier Giroud
Olivier Giroud, born 1986 in Chambéry, French centre-forward, 2018 World Cup winner and France's record men's scorer with 57 goals in 137 caps until Mbappé passed him in 2026; clubs included Arsenal, Chelsea, Milan, LAFC, and Lille.
Olivier Haccard
Olivier Haccard is a French cell-cycle biologist, a CNRS research director at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience known for defining the Mos–MAP kinase pathway in Xenopus egg maturation.
Olivier Hamant
Olivier Hamant is a French biologist and biophysicist, research director at INRAE and deputy director of the RDP laboratory in Lyon, studying how mechanical forces guide plant development.
Olivier Hermine
Olivier Hermine (born 1962) is a French hematologist, professor at Université Paris Cité and head of clinical hematology at the Hôpital Necker in Paris, known for mastocytosis research.
Olivier Jean
Olivier Jean (born 1984) is a Canadian short track speed skater, Olympic 5000m relay gold medalist at Vancouver 2010 and 2012 world 500m champion, who later switched to long track mass start, winning 2017 world bronze, and now coaches Canada's national team.
Olivier Lantz
Olivier Lantz is a physician-immunologist at Institut Curie in Paris who discovered mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells, named them in a 2003 Nature paper, and leads research on their role in cancer.
Olivier Lenglet
Olivier Lenglet (Olivier Serge Lenglet), born 1960, French épée fencer; Olympic team gold 1988 Seoul and silver 1984; world team titles 1982, 1983; not the footballer Clément Lenglet.
Olivier Létang
Olivier Létang is a French football executive who served as president of Stade Rennais from 2017 to 2020. He is currently the president of LOSC Lille.
Olivier Levasseur
Olivier Levasseur, known as La Buse, was a French pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, remembered for capturing the Portuguese treasure ship Nossa Senhora do Cabo in 1721.
Olivier Martinez
Olivier Martinez (born 1966, Paris) is a French actor, César Most Promising Actor 1994 for Un, deux, trois, soleil, known for Le Hussard sur le toit, Before Night Falls, Unfaithful, and S.W.A.T., and for his marriage to and 2026 custody suit against Halle Berry.
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), French composer, organist of La Trinité, and Conservatoire teacher; known for modes of limited transposition, birdsong works like Catalogue d'oiseaux, the wartime Quartet for the End of Time, and the opera Saint-François d'Assise.
Olivier Nkamhoua
Olivier Nkamhoua, Finnish power forward (2.03 m, born 2000, Helsinki), ex-Tennessee and Michigan NCAA player, played for Niners Chemnitz and Varese, signed by FC Barcelona in 2026, 50-cap Finland international.
Olivier Ntcham
Olivier Ntcham (Jules Olivier Ntcham), born 1996 in Longjumeau, France, is a Cameroonian midfielder at Samsunspor; ex-Man City, Genoa, Celtic (9 trophies), Marseille, Swansea; France youth international who switched to Cameroon in 2022.