Oliver


Gender:
Origin: French, German, Latin, Norse
2076 famous people named Oliver found on Wikipedia.
166274 male, 598 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 5-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 5-th in year 2018
Used in: Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Macedonian, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish

Meanings

Oliver is a masculine given name of Old French origin; Oliver is one of Charlemagne's retainers in the 11th-century Song of Roland.
The name was generally associated with the Latin term/name olivarius "olive tree planter", but may have been connected with the Germanic names *wulfa- "wolf" and *χarja- "army", or the Old Norse Óleifr (Ólaf); or a genuinely West Germanic name, perhaps from ala- "all" and wēra "true", or from alf "elf" and hari "army, warrior" (in both cases possibly cognate with Álvaro).
Modern variants include French Olivier, Hungarian Olivér, Irish Oilivéar, Scottish Gaelic Oilvreis, Italian Oliviero, Spanish Oliverio.
The name was introduced to England by the Normans. It was commonly used in medieval England, but became rare after the Restoration, because of the unpopularity of Oliver Cromwell. The name was revived in the 19th century, possibly inspired by the title character of Dickens' Oliver Twist (1838). Pet forms of the English given name include Ollie and Noll.
In 2013 it was the fifth most popular name for boys in Australia.

Masc. personal name, in medieval lore the name of one of Charlemagne's peers, friend of Roland, from French Olivier, from Middle Low German Alfihar, literally "elf-host, elf-army," from alf "elf" (see elf) + hari "host, army" (see harry (v.)). Cognate with Anglo-Saxon name Ælfhere. Form influenced in Old French by olivier "olive tree."

Olive tree, guard of all. From Olivier, a Norman French form of a Germanic name Alfher, Olaf: ancestor's heir; family's descendant.

Famous People: 2076 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Oliver Cromwell 1599 English military and political leader
2 Oliver Hudson 1976 American actor
3 Oliver Stone 1946 American film director, screenwriter, and producer
4 John Oliver 1977 English comedian
5 Oliver Reed 1938 English actor
6 Oliver North 1943 US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, claimed partial responsibility for clandestinely selling weapons to Iran and channeling profits to Contras in Nicaragua
7 Oliver Sacks 1933 British neurologist and writer
8 Tommy Oliver
9 Oliver Platt 1960 American screen and stage actor
10 Oliver Sykes 1986 British musician
11 Oliver Hardy 1892 American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy
12 Oliver Kahn 1969 German footballer
13 Oliver Sipple 1941 United States Marine
14 Susan Oliver 1932 Actress, author, aviator
15 Barret Oliver 1973 American actor and photographer
16 Oliver Jackson-Cohen 1986 English actor and model
17 Oliver McCall 1965 Former professional boxer
18 Oliver Heldens 1985 A Dutch electronic music producer from Rotterdam
19 Oliver Burke 1997 Footballer
20 Mary Oliver 1935 American writer
21 Oliver Cooper 1989 American actor
22 Oliver Lynn 1926 American businessman
23 Oliver Korittke 1968 German actor
24 Oliver Bierhoff 1968 German footballer
25 Oliver Hazard Perry 1785 United States Naval Officer
26 Oliver Cheshire 1988 English fashion model
27 Neil Oliver 1967 British television presenter
28 Oliver Tambo 1917 Sesotho
29 Oliver Mommsen 1969 German actor
30 Oliver Goldsmith 1728 Irish physician and writer
31 Oliver Heaviside 1850 Electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist
32 Oliver Chris 1978 English actor
33 Oliver Boot 1979 British actor
34 Oliver Letwin 1956 British politician
35 Oliver Twist Title character and the protagonist of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
36 Oliver Rath 1978 German photographer
37 Pam Oliver 1961 American sportscaster
38 Oliver Bender 1982 German actor and voice actor
39 Oliver Mobisson 1943 Scientist
40 Michael Oliver 1985 English football referee
41 Oliver Riedel 1971 German musician
42 Maxxie Oliver
43 Andrea Oliver UK television presenter and radio presenter
44 Oliver Otis Howard 1830 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general
45 Oliver Norwood 1991 Northern Irish association footballer (b.1991)
46 Oliver Polak 1976 German cabaret artist and writer
47 Oliver Hart 1948 British economist
48 Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks
49 Ingrid Oliver 1977 British comedian
50 Oliver Berben 1971 German film producer
51 Oliver Selfridge 1926 British computer scientist
52 Oliver Luck 1960 American football player, sports executive
53 Miquita Oliver 1984 British television presenter
54 Lauren Oliver 1982 American writer
55 Oliver Robins 1971 American writer, director and actor
56 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 Poet, essayist, physician
57 Oliver Stokes 1998 British actor
58 Oliver Milburn 1973 British actor
59 Oliver Miller 1970 American basketball player
60 Nicole Oliver 1970 Canadian actor voice actor
61 Oliver Tobias 1947 British actor
62 King Oliver 1881 American jazz cornet player and bandleader
63 Oliver Plunkett 1629 Irish archbishop, martyr and saint
64 Edna May Oliver 1883 Actress
65 Oliver Peyton 1963 Irish restaurateur and judge
66 Oliver Ellsworth 1745 American lawyer and politician, third Chief Justice of the United States
67 Oliver Cowdery 1806 American Mormon leader
68 Oliver Hynd 1994 Paralympic swimmer
69 Oliver Phelps 1986 British actor known as George Weasley in the Harry Potter series
70 Oliver McBurnie 1996 English profiessional footballer
71 Oliver O'Grady 1945 Roman Catholic priest and serial child rapist
72 Oliver Chace 1769 American businessman
73 Oliver Humperdink 1949 American wrestling manager
74 Oliver Neuville 1973 German footballer
75 Oliver Bootz 1971 German actor
76 Oliver Ford Davies 1939 British actor
77 Oliver Sanne 1986 German personal trainer
78 Oliver Parker 1960 British film director and screenwriter
79 Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi 1952 Zimbabwean musician
80 Oliver Nelson 1932 American jazz musician
81 Damien Oliver 1972 Australian jockey
82 Oliver E. Williamson 1932 American economist
83 Oliver Evans 1755 American inventor
84 Tony Oliver 1958 American voice actor
85 Oliver Trask
86 Oliver Ekman-Larsson 1991 Swedish ice hockey player
87 Oliver Stark 1991 British actor
88 Oliver Holt 1966 English sports journalist
89 Dale Oliver 1970 American musician
90 Oliver Lodge 1851 British physicist
91 Oliver Valentine Fictional registrar cardiothoracic surgeon in BBC TV medical drama Holby City
92 Oliver Winchester 1810 American businessman and politician
93 Oliver Palotai 1974 German musician
94 Oliver Postgate 1925 British animator, puppeteer and writer
95 Montserrat Oliver 1966 Fashion Model, Business entrepreneur, TV Star, and Talk Show Host
96 Oliver Farnworth 1982 Nice looking
97 Christian Oliver 1972 German actor
98 Oliver Hasenfratz 1966 German television actor and actor
99 Oliver Baier 1965 Austrian television presenter
100 Oliver James 1953 British psychologist
101 Oliver Hirschbiegel 1957 German film director
102 Oliver Smithies 1925 Biochemistry, genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007.
103 Tom Oliver 1938 English-Australian television, film and theatre actor
104 Oliver Mellor 1981 British actor
105 Oliver Wakeman 1972 British musician
106 Oliver Jeffers 1977 British writer and illustrator
107 Oliver Symons 1993 Belgian singer
108 Oliver Kamm 1963 British writer and journalist
109 Oliver P. Smith 1893 United States Marine Corps general
110 Oliver Belmont 1858 American congressman for New York
111 Joe Oliver 1940 Canadian federal finance minister
112 Oliver Bell 2004 American actor
113 Branden Oliver 1991 American football player, running back
114 Oliver Queen
115 Oliver Rowland 1992 Racecar driver
116 Oliver Hörner 1967 German actor
117 Paul Oliver 1984 Player of American football
118 Al Oliver 1946 Baseball player
119 Oliver Wolcott 1726 American politician
120 Oliver Dragojević 1947 Croatian pop singer
121 Oliver Ackland 1979 Television actor
122 Oliver Baumann 1990 Professional football player
123 Oliver Shanti 1948 German musician
124 Oliver Loving 1812 Cattle rancher and pioneer of the cattle drive
125 Oliver Turvey 1987 Racecar driver
126 Oliver Bozanic 1989 Australian soccer player
127 Oliver Siebeck 1961 German voice actor
128 Oliver Sabel Fictional human
129 Oliver Reed Smoot, Jr. 1940 American academic
130 Oliver Purnell 1953 American basketball player-coach
131 Oliver Fricker Swiss national convicted for vandalising a Mass Rapid Transit train in Singapore and for trespassing into a protected place
132 Oliver Cheatham 1948 American singer
133 Oliver Dimsdale 1972 British actor
134 Oliver Popplewell 1927 Cricketer
135 Oliver Mink 1963 German actor and voice actor
136 Marcos Oliver 1976 Brazilian actor and television actor
137 Oliver Cotton 1944 British actor
138 Oliver Kirch 1982 German footballer
139 Oliver Gill 1990 English footballer
140 Oliver St. John Gogarty 1878 Irish physician, writer and politician
141 Oliver Beerhenke 1970 German television presenter
142 Oliver Clark 1939 American actor
143 Oliver Seefeldt 1970
144 Jamie Oliver 1975 British musician
145 Oliver Masucci 1968 German actor
146 Oliver Sauer 1960 German actor
147 Oliver Hill 1907 American lawyer
148 Oliver Pocher 1978 TV Personality
149 Oliver Reinhard 1964 German actor
150 Oliver Lines 1995 Snooker player
151 Oliver Wallace 1887 Composer and music conductor
152 Edgar Oliver 1956 American actor and writer
153 Oliver Bröcker 1977 German actor
154 Oliver Leese 1894 British Army general
155 Deanna Oliver 1952 American actress
156 Oliver Brown 1918 American pastor, welder, and civil rights activist
157 Oliver Lafayette 1984 American basketball player
158 Oliver Coleman 1983 British actor
159 Oliver Grimm 1948 German actor and voice actor
160 Oliver Muirhead 1957 British actor
161 Oliver N'Goma 1959 Gabonese singer
162 Revilo P. Oliver 1908 American philologist
163 Oliver Wood 2000 English cinematographer
164 Oliver Bjorkstrand 1995 Danish ice hockey player
165 Oliver Koletzki 1974 German DJ
166 Oliver Heald 1954 British politician
167 Anton Oliver 1975 New Zealand rugby union player
168 Oliver White 1880 Cricket player
169 Oliver "Power" Grant 1973 American actor and producer
170 Jackie Oliver 1942 English racing driver
171 Oliver Mowat 1820 Canadian politician
172 Vic Oliver 1898 Actor and radio comedian
173 Oliver Messel 1904 English stage designer
174 Oliver Maria Schmitt 1966 German writer
175 Brian Oliver 1971 American film producer
176 Oliver Robbins 1975 British Civil Servant
177 Stephen Oliver 1950 British composer
178 Bronwyn Oliver 1959 1959-2006, Australian sculptor
179 Oliver De Coque 1947 Singer
180 Oliver Cookson 1979 British engineer
181 Oliver P. Morton 1823 American politician
182 David Oliver 1962 American actor
183 Oliver Barnes
184 Vadaine Oliver 1991 English footballer
185 Oliver Kylington 1997 Swedish ice hockey defenceman
186 Bernard M. Oliver 1916 American scientist
187 Oliver Anderson 1998 Australian tennis player
188 Oliver Dingley 1992 English diver
189 Oliver Sechting 1975 German cinematographer and writer
190 Oliver Conant 1955 American actor
191 Oliver Marach 1980 Austrian tennis player
192 Oliver Hudson Kelley 1826 Father of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
193 Andrew Oliver 1706 American merchant and public official
194 Oliver Bendt 1946 German singer
195 Oliver Mandić 1953 Serbian musician
196 Craig Oliver 1938 Canadian journalist
197 Oliver Hartmann 1970 German singer
198 Oliver Samuels 1948 Jamaican comedian
199 Oliver Onions 1873 English writer
200 Oliver Simon 1957 German singer