Oz

oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. It may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• 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)

Further information: Category:Oz (franchise) and Portal:Oz

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" (Judge Dredd story)
• 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:

• Givat Oz
• Migdal Oz
• Nahal Oz
• Nir Oz
• Nitzanei Oz

People

• Oz (surname)

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

See also: Ossie (disambiguation), Ozzie (disambiguation), Osborn (disambiguation), Osborne (disambiguation), Osbourne (disambiguation), Oscar (given name), Osgood (surname), and Oswald (disambiguation)

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

See also

• OS (disambiguation)
• O2 (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Oz
• All pages with titles containing Oz