Olivia
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Olivia is a female name pronounced oh-LIV-ee-ah. It is a Latinate name, coined by Shakespeare for the rich heiress wooed by the duke in Twelfth Night (1599). He might have derived the name from the olive plant (Latin: 'oliva') or used it as a feminine form of Oliver.[1]
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[edit] People
- Olivia (singer), an American R&B singer, born Olivia Longott
- Olivia de Berardinis, pin-up artist
- Olivia de Havilland, double Oscar-winning Japanese-born American actress and leading lady in Gone with the Wind
- Olivia Hussey, Argentine actress, best know for her role of Jessica Bradford, in Canadian horror film Black Christmas
- Olivia Lufkin, sometimes called OLIVIA, a Japanese singer
- Olivia Newton-John, an Australian singer and actress, is occasionally referred to simply as "Olivia" on her album covers
- Olivia Ong, Singaporean singer
- Fictional characters
- Olivia (Buffyverse), a minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Olivia (fictional pig), protagonist of several children's books by Ian Falconer
- Olivia Kidney, main character in Olivia Kidney (book series by Ellen Potter)
- Olivia (Twelfth Night), a character in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
- Olivia Benson, a fictional character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Mariska Hargitay
[edit] Literature and entertainment
- Olivia (novel), a novel published in 1949 by Dorothy Bussy under the pen name "Olivia"
- Olivia (film), a 1951 French motion picture based on this novel
- Olivia (novel), a novel published in 1994 by Judith Rossner
- Olivia (play), a play by William Gorman Wills
- Olivia Records, a record label
[edit] Other uses
- Olivia (company), a lesbian-oriented travel company
- 835 Olivia, a minor planet
- Olivia, North Carolina, a town in the United States of America
- Olivia MFSK, an amateur radio digital transmission protocol
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[edit] Links and references
- ^ Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1, p.210.
- All Wikipedia articles with "Olivia" in the title (ca. 156 in 2008)
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