Olive (disambiguation)

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Olive is a genus of about 20 species of small trees in the family Oleaceae, and the fruit of those trees

Olive may also refer to:

• Olive leaf, which is used medicinally
• Olive (color), a dark yellowish-green color
• Olive skin, a type of skin color

Places

In the United States

• Olive, California
• Olive, Indiana
• Olive, Missouri
• Olive, Montana
• Olive, New York
• Olive, Oklahoma
• Olive, Virginia
• Olive, West Virginia
• Olive Township (disambiguation), several places in the United States

Elsewhere

• Mount Olive (disambiguation), various mountains

People

• DJ Olive, disk jockey and turntablist
• Milton L. Olive, III (1946–65), United States Army soldier during the Vietnam War
• Olive (martyr) (Blessed Olive), a Catholic martyr from Italy
• Olive, Lady Baillie (1899–1974), Anglo-American heiress, landowner and hostess
• Olive Sturgess (born 1933), Canadian-American actress
• Olive Zorian (1916–65), English violinist
• Jean-Baptiste Olive (1848-1936), French painter
• Rich Olive (1949-2016), American politiciam

Characters

• Olive Oyl, Popeye's girlfriend
• Olive Rudge, a character from the TV show On The Buses
• Olive Snook, a character from the TV show Pushing Daisies
• Olive, heroine of Olive, the Other Reindeer, an animated Christmas special
• Olive, The Bash St. Kids' school cook
• Olive Penderghast, the protagonist of the 2010 film Easy A
• Olive Hornby, a minor character important to the backstory of Harry Potter character Moaning Myrtle

Biology

• Olive baboon, Papio anubis, a species of baboon
• Olive colobus, a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae
• Olive bee-eater, a near passerine bee-eater species in the genus Merops
• Olive long-tailed cuckoo, a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae
• Olive snout-burrower, a species of frog in the family Hemisotidae
• Olive ibis, a species of bird in the family Threskiornithidae found in parts of Africa
• Olive sparrow, Arremonops rufivirgatus, is a species of American sparrow in the family Emberizidae
• Olive thrush, one of the most common members of the thrush family (Turdidae)
• Olive whistler, Pachycephala olivacea is a species of bird of the whistler family Pachycephalidae that is native to southeastern Australia
• Olive woodpecker, a species of bird in the family Picidae found in parts of Africa
• Olive snail, a family of medium to large predatory sea snails

Organizations

• Olive (band), an English electronic music group

Other uses

• Tropical Storm Olive (disambiguation), the name of eleven tropical cyclones
• Olive (magazine), a British food magazine
• Nesiota, a tree in the Rhamnaceae, also called St Helena olive
• The olivary body, part of the brain (brainstem)
• Mono Olive, a subproject of the Mono project
• Liasis olivaceus or olive python, the second largest Australian python
• A name for a ring-shaped gasket used in plumbing