Oken is a surname. Notable people
with the surname include:
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Lorenz Oken
Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist.
Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss (german: Okenfuß) in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenburg), Ortenau, Baden, and studied natural history and ...
(originally ''Okenfuß'') (1779–1851), German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist
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46563 Oken, a main-belt asteroid
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Oken (crater)
Oken is a lunar impact crater near the southeastern limb of the Moon. It is normally visible from the Earth, but is foreshortened and within the region of the surface that is subject to libration. To the south and east of this feature is the broa ...
, a lunar crater
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Steven Oken
Steven Howard Oken (January 22, 1962 – June 17, 2004) was an American spree killer who raped and murdered three women in Maryland and Maine in November 1987. He was sentenced to death and executed in Maryland by lethal injection in 2004.
Murder ...
(1962–2004), American convicted murderer
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