Olive (disambiguation)
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Olive can be a shorterned form of the names Olivia
Olivia (given name)
Olivia, , is a popular feminine given name in the English language. It is a Latinate name derived, first coined by William Shakespeare for a character in the Twelfth Night...

 or Oliver
Oliver
The surname Oliver is of several different origins.-Etymology:The surname Oliver is derived from the Old French personal name Olivier. The Oliver surname seems to be French Norman in origin. The Olivers were probably part of William the Conqueror's Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066...

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Olive can also refer to:
  • Olive (tree) (Olea), a genus of about 20 species of small trees in the family Oleaceae
  • Olive leaf
    Olive leaf
    Olive leaf is the leaf of the olive tree . While olive oil is well known for its flavor and health benefits, the leaf has been used medicinally in various times and places. Natural olive leaf and olive leaf extracts , are now marketed as an anti-aging, immunostimulator and an antibiotic...

    , 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
    Olive, Montana
    Olive is an unincorporated community in north central Powder River County, Montana, United States. It lies along Highway 59 northwest of the town of Broadus, the county seat of Powder River County. Its elevation is 3,232 feet . Although Olive is unincorporated, it has a post office, with...

    , United States
  • Olive, New York
    Olive, New York
    Olive is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 4,579 at the 2000 census.The Town of Olive is an interior town of Ulster County. The town is west of Kingston, New York and is inside the Catskill Park.- History :...

    , United States
  • Olive, Oklahoma
    Olive, Oklahoma
    Olive is a small unincorporated community in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States. The post office was established November 20, 1896, and discontinued September 30, 1938. The town was named for the biblical Mount of Olives. In 1974 there was a tornado that wiped out the town. Today it is nothing...

    , United States
  • Olive, Virginia
    Olive, Virginia
    Olive is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.-Reference:...

    , 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
    Olive, Lady Baillie
    Olive, Lady Baillie was an Anglo-American heiress, landowner and hostess. She is best known as the owner of Leeds Castle, near Maidstone, Kent, England...

     (1899–1974), Anglo-American heiress, landowner and hostess
  • Olive Ann Beech
    Olive Ann Beech
    Olive Ann Beech was a U.S. aviation pioneer and businesswoman.With her husband, Walter Herschel Beech, she founded the Beech Aircraft Company....

     (1904–1993), American aviation pioneer and businesswoman, co-founder of Beech Aircraft Company
  • Olive Borden
    Olive Borden
    Olive Borden was an American actress in silent and early talkies. Nicknamed "The Joy Girl", Borden was known for her jet-black hair and overall beauty.-Early life:Olive Borden was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1906...

     (1906–1947), American film actress
  • Olive Dame Campbell
    Olive Dame Campbell
    Olive Dame Campbell was an American folklorist.Born Olive Arnold Dame in West Medford, Massachusetts, she married John C. Campbell, American educator, in 1907. After his death, she co-founded and directed the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina in 1925...

     (1882–1954), American folklorist
  • Olive Cotton
    Olive Cotton
    Olive Cotton was a pioneering Australian modernist female photographer of the 1930s and 40s working in Sydney. As a female photographer in Australia of that era, she was overlooked and her work at the Dupain studio was considered "art" rather than commercial. Cotton only became a national "name"...

     (1911-2003), pioneering Australian modernist female photographer
  • Olive Custance
    Olive Custance
    Olive Eleanor Custance was a British poet. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book....

     (1874–1944), British poet
  • Olive Diefenbaker
    Olive Diefenbaker
    Olive Evangeline Freeman Palmer Diefenbaker was the second wife of John George Diefenbaker, the 13th Prime Minister of Canada....

     (1902-1976), second wife of Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
  • Olive Edis
    Olive Edis
    Olive Edis was a British photographer who was famous for autochrome phototographs and portrait photography and served as a war artist in World War I . Olive Edis was a daughter of Arthur Wellesley Edis.Professor ofgynaecology at UCH...

    , British photographer
  • Olive Fremstad
    Olive Fremstad
    Olive Fremstad was the stage name of Anna Olivia Rundquist, a celebrated Swedish-American opera diva who sang in both the mezzo-soprano and soprano ranges. -Background:...

     (1871-1951), stage name of Anna Olivia Rundquist, a celebrated Swedish-American opera diva
  • Olive Gilbert
    Olive Gilbert
    Olive Sarah Gilbert was an operatic singer and actress, who performed in many of Ivor Novello's musicals.-Biography:Gilbert was born in Carmarthen, Wales....

     (1898-1981), operatic singer and actress
  • Olive Little
    Olive Little
    Olive Bend Little [Ollie] was a female pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the and seasons. Listed at 5' 3", 135 lb., Little batted and threw right-handed...

     (1917-1987), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  • Olive Logan
    Olive Logan
    Olive Logan was an American actress and author, daughter of Cornelius Ambrosius Logan and Eliza Akeley.She was born in Elmira, New York, and after being educated in Paris and London with a view to the stage, became an actress and subsequently a journalist and lecturer...

     (1839–1909), American actress and author
  • Olive Loughnane
    Olive Loughnane
    Olive Loughnane is an Irish race walker. She has competed in three Olympic Games . Loughnane has represented Ireland at five consecutive editions of the World Championships in Athletics and she won a silver medal at the 2009 World Championships. Loughnane earned $30,000 in prize money from the...

     (born 1976), Irish race walker
  • Olive Oatman
    Olive Oatman
    Olive Oatman was a woman from Illinois who was famously abducted by a Native American tribe , then sold to another . She ultimately regained her freedom five years later. The story resonated in the media, partly owing to the prominent blue tattooing of Oatman's face by her captors...

     (1837-1903), held captive by Native Americans until rescued
  • Olive Rush
    Olive Rush
    Olive Rush was an illustrator, muralist, and an important pioneer in Native American Art Education....

     (1873-1966), American illustrator and muralist
  • Olive Schreiner
    Olive Schreiner
    Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm which has been highly acclaimed ever since its first publication in 1883 for the bold manner in which it dealt with some of the burning issues...

     (1855-1920), South African author, pacifist and political activist
  • Olive Senior
    Olive Senior
    Olive Marjorie Senior is a Jamaican poet and short story writer currently living in Canada.She went to Montego Bay High School For Girls, then at age 19 joined the staff of the Jamaica Gleaner in Kingston. She later won a scholarship to study journalism in Cardiff, Wales, and then at Carleton...

     (born 1941), Jamaican poet and short story writer
  • Olive Lembe di Sita
    Olive Lembe di Sita
    Marie Olive Lembe di Sita is the current First Lady of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was the very secretive and discreet—almost elusive—long-term fiancée of Congolese President Joseph Kabila...

     (born 1976), First Lady of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Olive Thomas
    Olive Thomas
    Olive Thomas was an American silent film actress and model. She is best remembered for her marriage to Jack Pickford and her death.-Early life:...

     (1894–1920), American silent film actress and socialite
  • Olive Zakharov
    Olive Zakharov
    Alice Olive Zakharov was an Australian politician. Zakharov was elected as an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate relatively late in life, in 1983....

     (1929-1995), Australian politician
  • Milton L. Olive, III
    Milton L. Olive, III
    Milton Lee Olive, III was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in the Vietnam War. At the age of 18, Olive sacrificed his life to save others by smothering a live grenade...

    , a United States Army soldier during the Vietnam War
  • DJ Olive
    DJ Olive
    DJ Olive is an American disc jockey and turntablist active in free improvisation, jazz and illbient music. He is often credited with coining the latter term....

    , a disk jockey and turntablist

Fictional characters

  • Olive Oyl
    Olive Oyl
    Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was later renamed Popeye after the sailor character that became the most popular member of the cast; however Olive Oyl was a main character for 10 years before Popeye's 1929...

    , 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'
    The Bash Street Kids
    The Bash Street Kids is an ongoing comic strip featuring in the British comic The Beano. The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, and first appeared in The Beano in issue 604, dated 13 February 1954. It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956 and since then, it has...

     school cook
  • Olive Penderghast, the protagonist of the 2010 film Easy A
    Easy A
    Easy A is a 2010 teen comedy film written by Bert V. Royal, directed by Will Gluck, and starring Emma Stone. The screenplay was partially inspired by the novel The Scarlet Letter. The film was shot at Screen Gems studios and in Ojai, California. Screen Gems distributed with a release on...


Organizations

  • Olive (band)
    Olive (band)
    Olive was a breakbeat/trip hop group from the North of England. The founding membership consisted of producer, instrumentalist and songwriter Tim Kellett, producer and keyboard programmer Robin Taylor-Firth, and singer Ruth-Ann Boyle...

    , a musical group
  • Olive (retailer), a deli chain from Manchester, England
  • Olive Telecommunications
    Olive telecommunications
    -Company Background:Olive Telecom is Headquartered in Gurgaon, India and is a privately held leading Convergence Solutions Device Developer with presence in mobile phones, laptops, netbooks, Tablets , mobile computing, wireless broadband and convergence devices.The genesis of Olive Telecom lies in...

    , an Indian company
  • Olive (Antman), a super hero

Other uses

  • Tropical Storm Olive (disambiguation), the name of eleven tropical cyclones
  • Olive (magazine)
    Olive (magazine)
    olive is a modern food magazine published by Immediate Media Co. It was launched in 2003 and is an upmarket, monthly magazine in the stable that also includes BBC Good Food, bbcgoodfood.com, Easy Cook and Vegetarian Good Food.-Content:...

    , a British food magazine
  • Olive (Japanese magazine), a fashion magazine
  • The olivary body
    Olivary body
    In anatomy, the olivary bodies or simply olives are a pair of prominent oval structures in the medulla oblongata, the lower portion of the brainstem...

    , part of the brain (brainstem)
  • A type of mollusk similar to the cowry
    Cowry
    Cowry, also sometimes spelled cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries...

  • Part of a compression fitting
    Compression fitting
    Compression fittings are used in plumbing and electrical conduit systems to join two tubes or thin-walled pipes together. In instances where two pipes made of dissimilar materials are to be joined , the fittings will also be made of one or more compatible materials appropriate for the connection...

    , used in plumbing
  • Mono Olive, a subproject of the Mono project
  • Liasis olivaceus
    Liasis olivaceus
    Liasis olivaceus is a non-venomous python species found in Australia. Two subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.-Description:...

     or Olive python, the second largest Australian python
  • Olive baboon
    Olive Baboon
    The olive baboon , also called the Anubis baboon, is a member of the family Cercopithecidae . The species is the most widely spread of all baboons: it is found in 25 countries throughout Africa, extending south from Mali to Ethiopia and to Tanzania. Isolated populations are also found in some...

    , Papio anubis, a species of baboon
    Baboon
    Baboons are African and Arabian Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Papio, part of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. There are five species, which are some of the largest non-hominoid members of the primate order; only the mandrill and the drill are larger...

  • Olive skin
    Olive skin
    Olive skin describes a skin color range of some indigenous individuals who are from the Mediterranean and some other parts of Europe, Middle East and regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia. It may often be skin type 3 and 4 on the Fitzpatrick scale. However, this scale measures...

    , a type of skin color
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