Olivia

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Olivia is a popular female name pronounced a/o-LIV-ee-a. It is a Latinate name, coined by Shakespeare for the rich heiress wooed by the duke in Twelfth Night (1599).^{[citation needed]} He might have derived the name from the olive plant (Latin: 'oliva') or used it as a feminine form of Oliver.^[1]

People named Olivia

People

• Olivia (singer), an American R&B singer, born Olivia Longott
• Olivia de Berardinis, pin-up artist
• Olivia Chow, Hong Kong politician
• Olivia Goldsmith, American writer
• Olivia Harrison, wife of musician George Harrison
• Olivia de Havilland, double Oscar-winning Japanese-born American actress and leading lady in Gone with the Wind
• Olivia Hussey, Argentine actress, best known for her debut role as Juliet in Zefferelli's "Romeo and Juliet," and Jessica Bradford, in Canadian horror film Black Christmas
• Olivia Lufkin, sometimes called OLIVIA, a Japanese singer
• Olivia Munn, American actress
• Olivia Newton-John, an Australian singer and actress, is occasionally referred to simply as "Olivia" on her album covers
• Olivia Nordgren, Swedish politician
• Olivia Ong, Singaporean singer
• Olivia Ruiz, French singer
• Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
• Olivia Williams, English actress
• Olivia Wilde, an American actress

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 (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
• Olivia Blake Richards, of Sunset Beach
• Olivia Dunham, a character in the television series Fringe
• Olivia Kidney, main character in Olivia Kidney (book series by Ellen Potter)
• Olivia Robinson, a fictional character played by Alaina Reed on the long running children's series Sesame Street
• Olivia Spencer, a fictional character from the long-running CBS soap opera Guiding Light
• Olivia Fuller, a fictional character from Family Guy

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
• Olivia, an 2009 animated show based on Ian Falconer's books.
• Olivia (Lost and Turned Out), 1978 R&B song by The Whispers from their Headlights album.

Other uses

• Olivia (company), a lesbian-oriented travel company
• 835 Olivia, a minor planet
• Hala Olivia, arena in Gdańsk
• Olivia, North Carolina, a town in the United States of America
• Olivia, Minnesota, a town in the United States of America
• Olivia MFSK, an amateur radio digital transmission protocol
• Olivia Tremor Control, an american indie rock band

References

1. ^ Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1, p.210.