Oz
Appearance
oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. It may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- The Wizard of Oz
- Land of Oz, setting
- Wizard of Oz (character), a character in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (disambiguation)
Film and television
- Oz (TV series), an HBO-produced prison drama
- Oz (1976 film), an Australian update of The Wizard of Oz
- Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character
- Oz, a geordie bricklayer in British TV series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, played by Jimmy Nail
- 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, a virtual world, virtual reality in the movie, Summer Wars.
- Oz the Great and Powerful, a 2013 film
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 (Finnish band), a Finnish heavy metal band
- Oz (Japanese band), a Japanese rock band
- World of Oz, a British psychedelic band
- FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa
- Oz, an album by Missy Higgins
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, Kentucky
- A nickname for Oswego, New York
Element (Hebrew "strength" - עוז) in Israeli placenames:
People
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,American professional wrestler
Other
- Oz (programming language)
- Oz Academy, women's professional wrestling promotion
- OZ Group, an Italian wheel manufacturer
- 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
- oz, an abbreviation of ounce