Olive (disambiguation)

Olive (name) can be a shorterned form of the names Olivia or Oliver. Olive may also refer to:

• Olive (tree) (Olea), a genus of about 20 species of small trees in the family Oleaceae
• Olive leaf, which is used medicinally
• St Helena olive, Nesiota, a tree in the Rhamnaceae
• Olive (color), a dark green/brown colour
• Olive skin, a yellowish-brown colour

Places

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

People

• Olive (martyr) (Blessed Olive), a Catholic martyr from Italy
• Olive, Lady Baillie (1899–1974), Anglo-American heiress, landowner and hostess
• Milton L. Olive, III (1946–1965), United States Army soldier during the Vietnam War
• DJ Olive, disk jockey and turntablist

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

Biology

• Olive baboon, Papio anubis, a species of baboon
• Olive colobus, a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family
• Olive Bee-eater, a near passerine bee-eater species in the genus Merops
• Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family
• Olive Snout-burrower, a species of frog in the Hemisotidae family
• Olive Ibis, a species of bird in the Threskiornithidae family 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 Picidae family found in parts of Africa

Organizations

• Olive (band), a musical group
• Olive Telecommunications, an Indian company

Other uses

• Olive (film), adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, featuring Martin Potter (actor)
• Tropical Storm Olive (disambiguation), the name of eleven tropical cyclones
• Olive (magazine), a British food magazine
• Olive (Japanese magazine), a fashion magazine
• The olivary body, part of the brain (brainstem)
• A type of mollusk similar to the cowry
• Part of a compression fitting, used in plumbing
• Mono Olive, a subproject of the Mono project
• Liasis olivaceus or Olive python, the second largest Australian python
• Olive skin, a type of skin color