Olive (disambiguation)

Olive (name) can be a shorterned form of the names Olivia or Oliver. Olive can also refer to:

• Olive (tree) (Olea), a genus of about 20 species of small trees in the family Oleaceae
• Olive leaf, which is used medicinally
• St Helena olive, Nesiota, a tree in the Rhamnaceae
• Olive (color), a dark green/brown colour

Places

• Olive, California, United States
• Olive, Montana, United States
• Olive, New York, United States
• Olive, Oklahoma, United States
• Olive, Virginia, United States
• Olive Township (disambiguation), several places in the United States
• Mount Olive (disambiguation), various mountains

People

• Olive (martyr) (Blessed Olive), a Catholic martyr from Italy
• Olive, Lady Baillie (1899–1974), Anglo-American heiress, landowner and hostess
• Olive Ann Beech (1904–1993), American aviation pioneer and businesswoman, co-founder of Beech Aircraft Company
• Olive Borden (1906–1947), American film actress
• Olive Dame Campbell (1882–1954), American folklorist
• Olive Cotton (1911-2003), pioneering Australian modernist female photographer
• Olive Custance (1874–1944), British poet
• Olive Diefenbaker (1902-1976), second wife of Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
• Olive Edis, British photographer
• Olive Fremstad (1871-1951), stage name of Anna Olivia Rundquist, a celebrated Swedish-American opera diva
• Olive Gilbert (1898-1981), operatic singer and actress
• Olive Little (1917-1987), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Olive Logan (1839–1909), American actress and author
• Olive Loughnane (born 1976), Irish race walker
• Olive Oatman (1837-1903), held captive by Native Americans until rescued
• Olive Rush (1873-1966), American illustrator and muralist
• Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), South African author, pacifist and political activist
• Olive Senior (born 1941), Jamaican poet and short story writer
• Olive Lembe di Sita (born 1976), First Lady of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Olive Thomas (1894–1920), American silent film actress and socialite
• Olive Zakharov (1929-1995), Australian politician
• Milton L. Olive, III, a United States Army soldier during the Vietnam War
• DJ Olive, a disk jockey and turntablist

Fictional characters

• Olive Oyl, Popeye's girlfriend
• Olive Rudge, a character from the TV show On The Buses
• Olive Snook, a character from the TV show Pushing Daisies
• Olive, heroine of Olive the other Reindeer, an animated Christmas special
• Olive, The Bash St. Kids' school cook
• Olive Penderghast, the protagonist of the 2010 film Easy A

Organizations

• Olive (band), a musical group
• Olive (retailer), a deli chain from Manchester, England
• Olive Telecommunications, an Indian company
• Olive (Antman), a super hero

Other uses

• Tropical Storm Olive (disambiguation), the name of eleven tropical cyclones
• Olive (magazine), a British food magazine
• olivary body, part of the brain (brainstem)
• A type of mollusk similar to the cowry
• Part of a compression fitting, used in plumbing
• Mono Olive, a subproject of the Mono project
• Liasis olivaceus or Olive python, the second largest Australian python
• Olive baboon, Papio anubis, a species of baboon
• Olive skin, a type of skin color

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