Oliver

**Oliver** is a male given name. It has Old French and British origins. The name might come from Latin *olivarius*, meaning "olive tree planter" or "olive branch bearer" The pronunciation of the name is [ **ol**-*uh*-ver ]. This name was ranked #3 on the US Popular Names in 2021. 

## Persons with the given name
*Oliver Ekman-Larsson (born 1991), Swedish professional ice hockey player
*Oliver Bozanic (born 1989), Australian footballer
*Oliverius Carafa (1430–1511), Italian Cardinal, papal legate to King Ferdinand of Naples and Ambassador of Naples to the Holy See
*Oliver (singer) (1945–2000), American pop singer, real name William Oliver Swofford
*Oliver De Lancey (American loyalist) (1718–1785), American merchant, Loyalist politician, and major-general during the American Revolutionary War
*Oliver De Lancey (British Army general) (c. 1749–1822), British Army officer who took part in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars
*Oliver De Lancey (British Army and Spanish Legion officer) (1803–1837), British Army officer who volunteered for the Spanish Legion and died fighting in Spain during the First Carlist War
*Oliver Dobbins (born 1941), American football player
*Oliver Belmont (1858–1908), American socialite
*Oliver Bulleid (1882–1970), British railway and mechanical engineer
*Oliver Carminow (died 1597), English politician and Member of Parliament
*Oliver Churchill (1914–1997), British officer during World War II
*Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 
*Oliver Ditson (1811–1888), American businessman
*Oliver Dragojević (1947–2018), Croatian pop singer
*Oliver Ellsworth (1745–1807), American lawyer, politician, and senator
*Oliver Evans (1755–1819), American inventor
*Oliver Gavin (born 1972), British racing driver 
*Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
*Oliver Goonetilleke (1892–1978), first indigenous Governor-General of Ceylon
*Oliver Haarmann (born 1967), German private equity financier
*Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy
*Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist
*Oliver Heywood (1825–1892), English banker and philanthropist
*Oliver Hirschbiegel (born 1957), German film director 
*Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935), American jurist
*Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), American physician and poet
*Oliver Hudson (born 1976), American actor
*Oliver Hughes (1844–1911), American decorated Union Army soldier
*Oliver Ingrosso (born 1989), Swedish DJ, record producer, and actor
*Oliver Jackson a.k.a. "Bops Junior" (1933–1994), American jazz drummer
*Oliver Jackson-Cohen (born 1986), English actor and model
*Oliver Toussaint Jackson (1872–1948), American businessman
*Oliver Jarvis (born 1984), English racing driver
*Oliver Jones (Irish MP) (died 1664), Welsh-Irish soldier and politician
*Jovan Oliver (1310–1356), Serbian despot and voivode
*Oliver Kahn (born 1969), German football goalkeeper
*Oliver Kamm (born 1963), British writer and journalist
*Oliver Knussen (1952–2018), British composer and conductor
*Oliver Kuusik (born 1980), Estonian operatic tenor
*Oliver Lieb (born 1969), German electronic music producer and DJ
*Oliver Locker-Lampson (1880–1954), British politician and naval officer
*Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), British physicist and writer 
*Oliver W. F. Lodge (1878–1955), English poet and author
*Oliver Luck (born 1960), American professional football player and sports executive
*Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos (1893–1972), British businessman and politician
*Oliver Martini (born 1971), Italian racing driver
*Oliver McCall (born 1965), American heavyweight boxer
*Oliver Messel (1904–1978), English artist and pioneering stage designer
*Oliver Minatel (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
*Oliver P. Morton (1823–1877), American politician 
*Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi (1952–2019), Zimbabwean musician
*Oliver Nelson (1932–1975), American jazz musician
*Oliver North (born 1943), US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel, conservative political commentator and television host, military historian, and author
*Oliver Ortega (born 1996), Dominican Republic professional baseball player
*Oliver Parker (born 1960), English film director
*Oliver Penrose (born 1929), British theoretical physicist
*Oliver Perry (1785–1819), American naval commander 
*Oliver Petrucciani (born 1969), Swiss motorcycle racer
*Oliver Platt (born 1960), American actor
*Oliver Plunkett (1625–1681), Irish Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, last martyr of the Popish Plot
*Oliver Postgate (1925–2008), English animator, puppeteer, and writer
*Oliver Ranasinghe, 9th Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
*Oliver Reed (1938–1999), English actor
*Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), British-American neurologist and writer
*Oliver Selfridge (1926–2008), English businessman, computer scientist, and pioneer of artificial intelligence
*Oliver Sin (born 1985), Hungarian painter
*Oliver Smithies (1925–2017), British-born American geneticist
*Oliver Stanley (1896–1950), British politician
*Oliver W. Stewart (1867–1937), American politician
*Oliver Stone (born 1946), American film director, screenwriter, and producer
*Oliver Strachey (1874–1960), British civil servant in the Foreign Office and cryptographer
*Oliver s. Tyr (stage name for Oliver Pade), German musician and writer
*Oliver Sykes (born 1986), English singer-songwriter
*Oliver Tambo (1917–1993), South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress
*Oliver Tobias (born 1947), UK-based film, stage, and television actor 
*Oliver Wakeman (born 1972), rock keyboardist and composer and former member of Yes
*Oliver Wallace (1887–1963), British composer and conductor
*Oliver Weerasinghe (1907-1980), Sri Lankan Sinhala architect
*Oliver White (born 1995), British YouTube personality
*Oliver Wyman, American voice actor

## Fictional characters
* Oliver (Disney character)
* Oliver Fish, a gay police officer on the American soap opera *One Life to Live*
* Oliver Hampton, in the American television series How to Get Away with Murder.
* Oliver Jones (*The Bold and the Beautiful*), on the American soap opera *The Bold and the Beautiful*
* Oliver Lightload, in the movie *Cars*
* Oliver Oken, from *Hannah Montana*
* Oliver (paladin), a paladin featured in the Matter of France
* Oliver Queen, DC Comic book hero also known as the Green Arrow
* Oliver (Thomas and Friends character), a locomotive in the Thomas and Friends franchise
* Oliver Trask, a controversial minor character from the first season of *The O.C.*
* Oliver Twist (character), the protagonist of Dickens' novel *Oliver Twist*
* Oliver Wendell Douglas, on the American television situation comedy *Green Acres*
* Oliver, the main character of the role-playing game *Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch*

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