Oscar

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Oscar is a male name used in a few Western European countries. In Irish legends, Oscar was the son of Oisín. This name was Gaelic means "deer lover". In Old English, the name also means "god spear".

Oscar or OSCAR may refer to:

People

• Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway
• Oscar II of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway
• Prince Oscar, Duke of Gotlandia, prince of Sweden and Norway, later Count Bernadotte af Wisborg
• José Oscar Bernardi, Brazilian soccer player once known as "Oscar" (however, in Brazil, "Oscar" by itself now usually refers to the basketball player)
• Oscar de la Hoya, American boxer
• Oscar de la Renta, American fashion designer
• Oscar Gutierrez, professional wrestler under stage name Rey Mysterio
• Oscar Levant, pianist, composer, comedian, writer, and actor
• Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
• Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist and composer
• Oscar Pistorius, South African athlete
• Oscar van Rappard (1896-1962), Dutch athlete and football (soccer) player
• Oskar Schindler, German who saved his Jewish workers from the holocaust
• Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player
• Oscar Traynor, commander of the Dublin brigade IRA (1920-1922)
• Oscar Vega, Spanish boxer
• Oscar Villareal, American baseball player
• Oscar Wilde, writer and poet

Fictional characters

• Oscar the Grouch, a muppet on Sesame Street
• Oscar Martinez, a character from The Office.
• Oscar (Irish mythology), the warrior son of Oisín and Niamh
• Oscar Shales, a fictional fugitive from the television series Prison Break
• A character in the Jay Jay the Jet Plane children's story series.
• A fictional fish character from the movie Shark Tale.
• A member of the Greil Mercenaries from the 2005 Nintendo Gamecube video game; Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Music and media

• The Academy Awards, widely known as the Oscars
• The Oscar (1966 film), scripted by Harlan Ellison
• Oscar (1967 film), an acclaimed comedy starring Louis de Funès
• Oscar (1991 film), a remake of the 1967 film, starring Sylvester Stallone
• Oscar (musical), a 2004 musical by Mike Read about Oscar Wilde
• Oscar (game), an Amiga platform video game
• On Coast To Coast AM, a alleged demonic entity.

Military

• The letter O in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• The Oscar fighter aircraft, used by the Japanese in World War II
• The Oscar class submarine, built by the Soviet Union

Science and technology

• Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
• Open Source Cluster Application Resources
• OSCAR protocol, the protocol used by AOL Instant Messenger
• OSCAR McMaster (Open Source Clinical Application and Resource), an electronic medical record
• OScar (open source car), an attempt to design an entire car using open source principles.
• Oil Spill Contingency And Response, a computer model for simulating the fate of oil in water, and assist during contingency planning and response actions.(OSCAR)

Other

• Oscar (SundayLeague), a server on the online football management game sundayleague
• Oscar (fish), Astronotus ocellatus, a large aquarium fish from South America.
• King Oscar sardines, a sardine brand
• Oscar Mayer, a Kraft Foods brand
• Ordnance Survey Centre Alignment of Roads, a dataset of the road network of Great Britain, now superseded by ITN
• Out of School Care and Recreation
• Outer Suburban Cars, a type of CityRail train in Sydney, Australia presently undergoing testing before entering revenue service