Adding insult to injury in long hockey season - Edmonton Journal
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'Fringe': Nazis! - Los Angeles Times
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New Hampshire: A Record Is Blown Away - New York Times
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StarPoints For 1/31 vs Phoenix - NHL.com
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In Pictures: 'Artists for Haiti Benefit' - Monsters and Critics.com
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Olivia Wilde is Unforgettable Evening Elated - Just Jared (blog)
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18-year-old shooting victim in critical condition - The Desert Sun
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One Man Hospitalized After Shooting in Coachella - KESQ
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OLIVIA GARCIA: Taft College Foundation eyes new scholarship fund, Bar ... - Bakersfield Californian
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Olivia Biography
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Olivia
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| Olivia | |
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| Pronunciation | o-LIV-ee-ə or ə-LIV-ee-ə |
| Gender | Female |
| Meaning | peaceful, olive |
| Origin | Greek |
| Related names | Oliver, Olive, Livvy |
| Popularity | Popular names page |
| Look up Olivia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Olivia is a popular female name pronounced o-LIV-ee-ə or ə-LIV-ee-ə. 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
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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, English 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
- Olivia (magazine), Finnish women's magazine
- Olivia (novel), published in 1994 by Judith Rossner
- Olivia (Dorothy Bussy novel), a novel published in 1949 by Dorothy Bussy under the pen name "Olivia"
- Olivia (film), 1951 French motion picture based on this novel
- Olivia (play), by William Gorman Wills
- Olivia Records, record label
- Olivia (TV series), 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), 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
- Hurricane Olivia, the name of several tropical cyclones
References
- ^ Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1, p.210.





























