Olive (disambiguation)

Olive (disambiguation)

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

Contents

  • 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

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

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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