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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

People

• Olivia (singer), American R&B singer, born Olivia Longott
• Olivia De Berardinis, pin-up artist
• Olivia Chow, Chinese-Canadian 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

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