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), 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"
- Olivia Lufkin, sometimes called OLIVIA, a Japanese singer
- Olivia Munn, American actress
- Olivia Newton-John, 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 Wilde, American actress
- Olivia Williams, English actress
Fictional characters
- Olivia (Buffyverse), minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Olivia (fictional pig), protagonist of several children's books by Ian Falconer
- Olivia (Twelfth Night), character in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
- Olivia Benson, character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Mariska Hargitay
- Olivia Blake, character from the American soap opera Sunset Beach
- Olivia Dunham, character in the television series Fringe
- Olivia Falconeri, character from the long-running American soap opera General Hospital
- Olivia Fuller, character from Family Guy
- Olivia Harper, nurse in the American comedy-drama Grey's Anatomy
- Olivia Kidney, main character in Olivia Kidney (book series by Ellen Potter)
- Olivia Robinson, character played by Alaina Reed on the long-running children's series Sesame Street
- Olivia Spencer, character from the long-running American soap opera Guiding Light
- Olivia Walton, matriarch of the Walton clan on the TV series The Waltons
Literature and entertainment
Other uses
- Olivia (company), lesbian-oriented travel company
- 835 Olivia, a minor planet
- Hala Olivia, arena in Gdańsk, Poland
- Olivia, Minnesota, a small city in the United States
- Olivia, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Olivia MFSK, an amateur radio digital transmission protocol
- The Olivia Tremor Control, an American indie rock band
References
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