Olympia

The name Olympia may refer to:

Places

• Olympia, Greece, the site of the ancient Olympic Games
• Olympia, Washington, the capital city of Washington state.
• Olympia Heights, Florida
• Olympia Fields, Illinois
• Olímpia, a municipality of São Paulo, Brazil

Buildings and landmarks

• Olympia Apartments (Washington, D.C.), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• Detroit Olympia, the former stadium of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings
• Kensington (Olympia) station, a station in London, UK
• Liverpool Olympia, a theatre in Liverpool, UK
• Olympia (Paris), a famous music hall in Paris, France
• Olympia (Helsingborg), a football stadium in Helsingborg, Sweden, home of Helsingborgs IF
• Olympia (London), an exhibition centre in London, UK
• Olympia High School (Washington), an American high school in Washington State
• Olympia Milk Bar, a cultural landmark in Sydney, Australia
• Olympia Skistadion, a ski-jumping facility in Garmisch, Germany
• Olympic Stadium (Berlin), a stadium originally built for the (cancelled) 1916 Summer Olympics
• Olympia Theatre (Dublin), a concert hall in Dublin, Ireland.
• Olympia Theatre (New York), a now-demolished theatre complex in New York, USA.

People

• Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great
• Olympia Dukakis (b. 1931), actress
• Olympia Snowe (b. 1947), US Senator from Maine
• Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark (b. 1967), daughter of Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece

Ships and aircraft

• USS Olympia, referring to two ships named after the city of Olympia, Washington
• HMS Olympia, referring to ships of the Royal Navy.
• M/V Olympia (later Pride of Bilbao), a ferry operated by Viking Line between 1986 and 1993
• Olympia, later MS Regal Empress, an ocean liner
• DFS Olympia Meise, a glider built in numbers in the 1930s in Germany
• The Olympia, a glider built in numbers in the 1940s in the United Kingdom

Art

• Olympia (Manet), an 1863 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet
• René Magritte
• Olympia (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games
• Olympia (1998 film), about a Mexican soap opera star who pursues a career as an athlete

Music

• "Olympia" (song), a song by Sergio Mendes from his album Confetti, written for the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Olympia (album), an album by Bryan Ferry
• Olympia, a mechanical doll from E.T.A. Hoffmann's short story "Der Sandmann". She also appeared in Jacques Offenbach's masterpiece Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and sings the aria Les oiseaux dans la charmille, along with the barcarole Belle nuit, O nuit d'amour

Businesses, companies and products

• Olympia, a CD imprint of the Russian label Melodiya
• Olympia Brewing Company (1896-2003) in Washington State
• Olympia College, a for-profit group of American colleges, part of the Everest College system
• Olympia (comics), a fictional city in Marvel Comics
• Olympia Flooring and Tile a tile wholesaler in Canada
• Olympia Press, a French publisher
• Olympia Sports Camp, a Sports Camp near Huntsville, Ontario
• Olympia Werke, a German typewriter company, now dedicated to import office goods
• Olympia and York, a now bankrupt property firm based in Canada
• The Olympia line of ice resurfacers manufacturer by Resurfice Corporation
• Opel Olympia, a family car

Sports

• Olympia Larissa BC, a basketball club based in Larissa, Greece
• Detroit Olympia, the former stadium of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings
• Olympia (Helsingborg), a football stadium in Helsingborg, home of Helsingborgs IF
• Olympia Club de Bruxelles, a former Belgian football club
• Olympia Skistadion, a ski-jumping facility in Garmisch, Germany
• TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven, a German sports club
• Mr. Olympia, an annual bodybuilding contest
• Figure Olympia, women's bodybuilding competition
• Fitness Olympia, women's bodybuilding competition

Other uses

• Olympia, a junior synonym of the plant genus Hypericum (St. John's-worts)
• 582 Olympia, a minor planet orbiting the sun
• Olympia Academy or "Akademie Olympia", a semi-formal group of friends that included Albert Einstein
• Olympia oyster, a Pacific coast oyster
• Euchloe olympia, a North American butterfly commonly called the Olympia Marble

See also

• Olympic (disambiguation)
• Olympus (disambiguation)
• Olimpia (disambiguation)

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