Oliphant

Olifant, Oliphant, Olyphant and similar may be:

• Archaic spelling of elephant
• Derivations from Olifardus or Olifard, name of the ancestors of Clan Oliphant

People

• Clan Oliphant, a Highland Scottish clan
• Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland
• Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), British organist and composer
• Greg Oliphant, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
• Laurence Oliphant (author) (1829–1888), British author and mystic
• Laurence Oliphant (Jacobite) (1691–1767), Scottish Jacobite army officer
• Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish novelist and historical writer
• Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), Australian physicist
• Pat Oliphant (b. 1935), Australian American editorial/political cartoonist
• Thomas Oliphant, American journalist
• Timothy Olyphant (b. 1968), American actor

In literature

• Oliphaunt or mûmak, a monstrous elephant-like creature in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Sir Olifaunt, a vicious giant in "Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas" in The Canterbury Tales

Geography

Rivers in South Africa

• Olifants River (Western Cape)
• Olifants River (Southern Cape)
• Olifants River (Mpumalanga)

Places

• Olyphant, Pennsylvania
• Oliphant, Ontario

Other uses

• Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, a U.S. Supreme Court case
• Oliphant (band), Finnish band
• Olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the Middle Ages, made from elephants' tusks
• Olifant tank, South African version of the British Centurion tank
• Olifant (software), an open source software tool designed for maintaining Translation memory files