Oz

oz, oz., Oz, OZ or O.Z. may refer to:

Geography

• Australia, a country
• Oz, Isère, a town and commune in France

People

• Oz Clarke, British wine writer
• Oz Fox, singer, songwriter and gutarist in the band Stryper
• Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler
• Ozzie Nelson, late American entertainer and band leader
• Ozzy Osbourne, British musician and television personality
• Amos Oz, Israeli author
• Frank Oz, British film director, actor and puppeteer
• Mehmet Oz, Turkish-American surgeon and author
• Nickname of NHL goalie, Chris Osgood

Media

Publications

• Oz (Judge Dredd story), a mini-series in the comic 2000 AD
• Oz (magazine), a now defunct Australian and British satirical humour magazine
• Oz, a manga written and drawn by Natsumi Itsuki
• Oz (One Piece), a fictional character in the manga One Piece
• OZ (Ultimate Marvel), a fictional mutagen that appears in the Ultimate Marvel comics imprint
• Oz, a manga written by Tokiya Seigo

The Wizard of Oz

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a book by L. Frank Baum, published in 1900
  • Land of Oz, the fictional empire depicted in the book
  • Wizard (Oz), a key character in the book
• The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second book of L. Frank Baum, published 1904, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, the first movie adaptation of L.Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz book series, released in 1908
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910 film), a movie short
• His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, a motion picture released in 1914
• Wizard of Oz (1925 film), a motion picture
• The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), the motion picture in which Judy Garland plays Dorothy
• Little Ayşe and the Magic Dwarfs in the Land of Dreams (Turkish: Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde), a motion picture, released in 1971, which is a very close adaptation of the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book by L. Frank Baum
• The Wiz, a 1975 Broadway musical adaptation of the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book
• Oz (1992 film), a 2 part anime OAV based on the manga Oz by Natsumi Itsuki.
• Oz (1976 film), (also known as Oz - A Rock 'n' Roll Road Movie, released as 20th Century Oz in the U.S.), an Australian motion picture re-imagining of the 1939 The Wizard of Oz film transferred to 1970s Australia
• The Wiz (film), a motion picture, released in 1978, which is an adaptation of the Broadway musical
• The Wizard of Oz (1982 film), a Japanese animated (anime) motion picture
• A Barnstormer in Oz, the 1982 science-fiction novel by Philip José Farmer
• Return to Oz, a motion picture released by Disney in 1985
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 TV series), known in Japan as Oz no Mahōtsukai (オズの魔法使い, Ozu no Mahōtsukai), a Japanese animated (anime) television series
• The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz, a Japanese animated (anime) motion picture released in 1992, originally released in 1990 as the television series Adventures of Space Oz, known in Japan as Space Oz no Bōken (スペースオズの冒険, Supeesu Ozu no Bōken)

Computing

• Oz (programming language)

Video games

• OZ - Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2
• Wizard of Oz experiment, a common experiment in human-computer interactions

Other film and television

• Chris Ostreicher, a character in the American Pie film series
• Organization of the Zodiac, an organization in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
• Oz, the metaverse in the animated film Summer Wars.
• Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a fictional television character played by Seth Green
• Oz (TV series), HBO produced prison drama

Other

• Asiana Airlines IATA code
• Circus Oz, an Australian circus group
• Congregation Ohab Zedek, a synagogue
• Ounce, a unit of measure (abbreviated oz.)
• Ornstein-Zernike equation, a concept in statistical mechanics
• A shortened form of the names Oswald, Oscar or others
• O.Z. Whitehead
• Oz (band)
• Wicked, a musical currently on broadway