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Olivier Pomel
Olivier Pomel is a French-born technology executive who cofounded the cloud monitoring company Datadog in New York in 2010 with Alexis Lê-Quôc and has served as its CEO ever since.
Olivier Pourquie
Olivier Pourquie is a French developmental biologist known for discovering the vertebrate segmentation clock, the molecular oscillator timing somite formation in embryos. He is a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Olivier Pourquié
Olivier Pourquié is a French-American developmental biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for discovering the segmentation clock that governs somite formation.
Olivier Rascol
Olivier Rascol is a French neurologist and clinical pharmacologist, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Toulouse University Hospital since 1993, known for Parkinson's disease trials including the 2000 ropinirole study and the 2024 LIXIPARK trial.
Olivier Richters
Olivier Richters, The Dutch Giant, born 1989 in Hilversum, is a 2.18 m Dutch actor and Guinness-certified tallest professional bodybuilder; roles include Hauke in Indiana Jones, Krom in Borderlands, Paulie in Reacher, and Zangief in Street Fighter (2026).
Olivier Rioux
Olivier Rioux, 7'9" (2.36 m) Canadian center for the Florida Gators, Guinness tallest teenager, tallest player in NCAA history; redshirted 2024-25 title season, debuted November 2025.
Olivier Rousteing
Olivier Rousteing (born 1985, Bordeaux) is a French fashion designer, Balmain creative director 2011-2025, the Balmain Army and H&M 2015 collaborator, now creative director of Rabanne since July 2026.
Olivier salad
Olivier salad (салат оливье), or Russian salad abroad, is a mayonnaise-bound salad of diced potatoes, peas, eggs, pickles, and sausage or chicken, a New Year staple in post-Soviet countries, reinvented in the Soviet era from Lucien Olivier's 1860s Moscow Hermitage restaurant luxury dish.
Olivier Sarkozy
Olivier Sarkozy is a private equity investor in financial services who led The Carlyle Group's financial services franchise from 2008 to 2016 before founding Further Global Capital Management in 2017.
Olivier Schwartz
Olivier Schwartz is a French virologist and professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he has headed the Virus and Immunity unit since 2007.
Olivier Scialom
Olivier Scialom is an e-commerce entrepreneur based in Mexico City who co-founded Merama in 2020, the online-brands company that became a unicorn valued at $1.2 billion within twelve months.
Olivier Sitbon
Olivier Sitbon (born 1961) is a French professor of respiratory medicine at Hôpital Bicêtre known for clinical trials in pulmonary arterial hypertension, including the 2015 GRIPHON trial.
Olivier Vernon
Olivier Vernon, American football defensive end (Miami Dolphins, New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, 2012-2020); 63.5 career sacks, 2012 third-round pick, 2016 record $85 million Giants contract, torn Achilles in 2020.
Olivier Voinnet
Olivier Voinnet is a French plant molecular biologist who studies RNA silencing in plants; he has been professor of RNA biology at ETH Zurich since 2010.
Olivine
Olivine, also known as crysolite, is a group of rock-forming silicate minerals ranging from forsterite to fayalite, usually olive green and dominant in Earth's upper mantle.
Olivocochlear system
Olivocochlear system: brainstem-to-cochlea efferent pathway from the superior olivary complex, divided into medial (MOC, outer hair cells, cholinergic gain reduction) and lateral (LOC) divisions, studied via otoacoustic emissions for protection and speech-in-noise roles.
Olivula
Olivula (Portus Olivula) is an ancient Ligurian coastal place and harbor on the Maritime Itinerary, five Roman miles from Nicaea, identified near the Gulf of Villefranche east of Nice; also a fossil snail genus and a Roman female name.
Oliwier Zych
Oliwier Zych, Polish goalkeeper born 2004 in Gdańsk; Aston Villa academy signing (2020) from Zagłębie Lubin, FA Youth Cup 2021, senior loans to Puszcza Niepołomice, Raków Częstochowa, and Vitória SC, one Poland U-21 cap.
OLIX
OLIX (Olix Computing Ltd., formerly Flux Corp Ltd.) is a London startup founded in 2024 by James Dacombe, building specialized AI inference chips with optical interconnects; it has not yet shipped a chip.
Öljaitü
Öljaitü (اولجایتو), in full Muhammad Khudabanda, was the eighth Ilkhan of the Ilkhanid dynasty of Iran, reigning from 1304 to 1316 and succeeding his brother Ghazan Khan.
Oljas Bektenov
Oljas (Olzhas) Bektenov (Олжас Бектенов), born 1980 in Almaty, Kazakhstani civil servant and Prime Minister since February 6, 2024, succeeding Alikhan Smailov; former Anti-Corruption Agency chairman and Head of the Presidential Administration.
Oljeitu Mihrab
The Oljeitu Mihrab is a carved-stucco prayer niche dated 1310 in the Friday Mosque of Isfahan, Iran, made under the Mongol Il-khan Öljeitü and signed by the calligrapher Haydar.
Oljobay and Kishimjan
Oljobay and Kishimjan (Олжобай менен Кишимжан) is a Kyrgyz lyric-epic dastan, a lyrical-romantic love story that Chingiz Aitmatov called a kind of Romeo and Juliet of the steppe.
Olkaria
Olkaria is a volcanic complex and high-temperature geothermal field south of Lake Naivasha in the Kenya Rift; Africa's leading geothermal field, producing power since 1981 and exceeding 670 MWe.
Olkaria Geothermal Power Station
The Olkaria Geothermal Power Station is a complex of geothermal plants in Hell's Gate National Park, Kenya, about 120 km from Nairobi, the largest in Africa.
Olke C. Uhlenbeck
Olke C. Uhlenbeck (Olke Cornelis Uhlenbeck) is an RNA biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant
Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant (Olkiluoto NPP) is a three-unit nuclear power station on Olkiluoto island in Eurajoki, Finland, operated by Teollisuuden Voima, supplying about 28 percent of Finnish electricity in 2024.
Ollama
Ollama is an open-source tool that downloads and runs large language models such as Llama and DeepSeek on a local computer, serving them through a REST API.
Ollan Cassell
Ollan Conley Cassell (born 5 October 1937, Norton, Virginia) is an American sprinter and administrator; 1964 Tokyo Olympic 4x400 m relay gold medalist and world record holder, later executive director of The Athletics Congress/USA Track & Field.
Ollantay
Ollantay is a Quechua-language tragicomedy in three acts from colonial Peru, first published in 1853, about a rebel Inca general who loves a princess of royal blood.