Oz

Look up -oz, -öz, Oz, oz, or öz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. Oz or OZ may also refer to:

Places

Oz, Isère, a town and commune in France
Oz, Kentucky
Oz Park, Chicago
A nickname for Australia
A nickname for Oswego, New York

Element (Hebrew "strength" - עוז) in Israeli placenames:

People

Oz (surname)

Given name or nickname

Oz Almog (born 1956), an Israeli–Austrian artist
Oz Bengur, a Maryland Democrat
Oz Clarke (born 1949), a British wine writer
Oz Fox (born 1961), a rock musician with Stryper
Oz Griebel (b. 1949), a Connecticut businessman and Republican
Oz Perkins (born 1974), an American actor
Oz Scott (born 1949), an American screenwriter
O.Z. Whitehead (1911–1998), a character actor
Oz, ring name of Kevin Nash,American professional wrestler
Oz, pseudonym of German graffiti artist Walter Josef Fischer (died 2014)

See also: Ossie (disambiguation), Ozzie (disambiguation), Osborn (disambiguation), Osborne (disambiguation), Osbourne (disambiguation), Oscar (given name), Osgood (surname) and Oswald (disambiguation)

Arts, media, and entertainment

Fictional characters and entities

Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series
Oz (One Piece), a manga character
OZ (Ultimate Marvel), a mutagen
OZ, a virtual world, virtual reality in the movie, Summer Wars
Leonard "Oz" Osbourne, a geordie bricklayer in British TV series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, played by Jimmy Nail
Chris Ostreicher, a character in the American Pie film series
Organization of the Zodiac, or Oz, an organization in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Oz Vessalius, a Pandora Hearts manga's protagonist

Comics

Oz (2000 AD), a future city in Australia
Oz (comics), based on The Wizard of Oz
"Oz" (Judge Dredd story), a mini-series
Oz, a manga by Natsumi Itsuki

Film

Oz (1976 film), an Australian update of The Wizard of Oz
Oz the Great and Powerful, a 2013 film

Games

OZ - Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2

Music

Artists

Oz (Finnish band), a Finnish heavy metal band
Oz (Japanese band), a Japanese rock band
OZ, a Swedish and Turkish Record Producer
World of Oz, a British psychedelic band

Albums

Oz (Missy Higgins album), an album by Missy Higgins
FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa

The Oz franchise by L. Frank Baum

Land of Oz, setting
The Wizard of Oz (disambiguation)
Wizard of Oz (character), a character in the Oz series for books by L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (disambiguation)

Print media

Oz (magazine), an Australia/UK satire magazine published 1963–73
Liber OZ, a spiritual text by Aleister Crowley, described as "the Thelemic declaration of rights of Man, in five sections comprised of one syllable words"
The Oz, a nickname for the newspaper The Australian

Television

Oz (TV series), an HBO-produced prison drama

Businesses and organizations

OZ Group, an Italian wheel manufacturer
OZ Minerals, an Australian mining company
Circus Oz, an Australian circus group
Congregation Ohab Zedek, a Manhattan synagogue

Computing and technology

Oz (programming language)
.oz, a former MHSnet domain
.oz, an OpenNIC hosted Top level domain

Other

Oz Academy, women's professional wrestling promotion
OZ Virtual, a 3D world viewer
Ornstein–Zernike equation, in statistical mechanics
OZ, the IATA code for Asiana Airlines