# Oz

Oz or OZ may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* Land of Oz, the setting for many of L. Frank Baum's novels

### Fictional characters and entities

* Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character from the 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
* Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky, a character in the comedy film, The Whole Nine Yards and its sequel, The Whole Ten Yards.
* Organization of the Zodiac, or Oz, an organization in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
* Oz Vessalius, a protagonist in the manga Pandora Hearts
* Oz, a playable character in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Exo Zombies mode
* Wizard of Oz (character), often known simply as "Oz"

### Comics

* Oz (comics), a comic book series based on The Wizard of Oz
* Oz (Judge Dredd story), a mini-series
* Oz, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic
* Oz, a manga by Natsumi Itsuki

### Music

* Oz (band), a Finnish heavy metal band
* Carmen Maki & Oz, a Japanese rock band
* Oz (album), by Missy Higgins, 2014
* Oz (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the HBO television series
* FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa
* "Oz", a song by Two Hours Traffic from their self-titled debut album

### Publications

* Oz (magazine) (1963–1973), Australia/UK underground satire magazine
* The Oz, a nickname for the newspaper The Australian
* OZ (radio amateur magazine), a Danish radio amateur magazine published by Experimenterende Danske Radioamatører
* Liber OZ, the Rights of Man.
* Ozwords (1994–2019), newsletter from the Australian National Dictionary Centre, Canberra

### Other arts and entertainment

* The Dr. Oz Show, a syndicated daytime television show
* Oz (TV series), an HBO-produced prison drama
* Oz (1976 film), an Australian update of The Wizard of Oz
* OZ - Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2
* Oz: Into the Wild, a novel featuring the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Oz

## Businesses and organizations

* OZ Group, an Italian wheel manufacturer
* OZ Minerals, an Australian mining company
* Circus Oz, an Australian circus group
* The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, an independent film studio from 1914 to 1915, co-founded by L. Frank Baum
* CHOZ-FM, a Canadian radio station based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, known as OZ FM
* Asiana Airlines (IATA code OZ since 1988)
* Ozark Air Lines (IATA code OZ until 1986)

## People

* Oz (surname), a list of people
* Oz (given name), a list of people with either the given name or nickname
* Oz (record producer), a Swiss record producer
* Oz Fox (born 1961), stage name of Richard Alfonso Martinez, lead guitarist of the Christian glam metal band Stryper
* Oz, ring name of Kevin Nash (born 1959), American semi-retired professional wrestler

## Places

* A nickname for Australia; see Name of Australia
* Oz, Isère, a town and commune in France
* Oz, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Oz Park, a public park in Chicago
* A nickname for Oswego, New York

### Extraterrestrial

* Oz Terra, a highland region on Pluto's moon Charon

## Science and technology

* Ounce, abbreviated oz., referring to several units of measure
* Oz (programming language)
* .oz, a former MHSnet domain
* .oz, an OpenNIC hosted Top-level domain
* OZ Virtual, a 3D world viewer
* Oz: an EEG electrode site according to the 10-20 system

## Other uses

* Oz Brigade, an Israel Defense Forces commando brigade
* Congregation Ohab Zedek, a Manhattan synagogue sometimes abbreviated OZ
* The Opel symbol.