Oz
Appearance
oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. It may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Land of Oz, setting
- Wizard (Oz), character
Film and television
- Oz (TV series), a HBO-produced prison drama
- Oz (1976 film), an Australian update of The Wizard of Oz
- Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character
- 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 Summer Wars metaverse
Comics
- Oz (comics), based on The Wizard of Oz
- Oz (2000 AD), a future city in Australia
- Oz (One Piece), a manga character
- OZ (Ultimate Marvel), a mutagen
- Oz, a manga by Natsumi Itsuki
- Oz Vessalius, a Pandora Hearts manga's protagonist
Music
- Oz (band), a Finnish heavy metal band
- -Oz-, a Japanese Visual Kei Band
- World of Oz, a British psychedelic band
- FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa
Other media
- Oz (magazine), an Australia/UK satire magazine published 1963–73
- OZ - Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2
- Liber OZ, a spiritual text by Aleister Crowley, described as "the Thelemic declaration of rights of Man, in five sections comprised of one syllable words."
- The Oz, a nickname for the newspaper The Australian
Places
- a nickname for Australia
- Oz, Isère, a town and commune in France
- Oz Park, Chicago
- Oz Run, a trail at Beech Mountain, North Carolina, United States
- a nickname for Oswego, New York
Element (Hebrew "strength") in Israeli placenames:
People
Surname
- Amos Oz (born 1939), an Israeli author
- Avraham Oz (born 1944), an Israeli theatre professor
- Avraham Katz-Oz (born 1934), an Israeli politician
- David Oz Yifrah (born 1982), an Israeli football player
- Frank Oz (born 1944), a British film director, actor and puppeteer
- Kobi Oz (born 1969), an Israeli singer with The Teapacks
- Lisa Oz (born 1963), an American self-help author
- Mehmet Oz (born 1960), a Turkish-American surgeon, author and promoter of alternative medicine
Given name or nickname
- Oz Almog (born 1956), an Israeli–Austrian artist
- Oz Bengur, a Maryland Democrat
- Oz Clarke (born 1949), a British wine writer
- Oz Fox (born 1961), a rock musician with Stryper
- Oz Griebel (b.1949), a Connecticut businessman and Republican
- Oz Perkins (born 1974), an American actor
- Oz Scott (born 1949), an American screenwriter
- O.Z. Whitehead (1911–1998), a character actor
- Oz, ring name of Kevin Nash,an American professional wrestler
Other
- Oz (programming language)
- OZ Virtual, a 3D world viewer
- OZ Minerals, an Australian mining company
- Ornstein–Zernike equation, in statistical mechanics
- Asiana Airlines (IATA code OZ)
- Congregation Ohab Zedek, a Manhattan synagogue
- Circus Oz, an Australian circus group
- .oz, a former MHSnet domain
- OZ, an abbreviation for Operating Zone