Olly, like the similarly spelt
Ollie
Ollie is a given name and a nickname, often as a shortened form of Oliver, Olive, Olympia, Olga or Olivia. Variants include Olie, Oli, Oly and Olly.
People Given name
* Ollie Marie Adams (1925–1998), American gospel and R&B singer
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, is a variant of the given names
Olivia Olivia may refer to:
People
* Olivia (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
* Olivia (singer) (Olivia Longott, born 1981), American singer
* Olívia (basketball) (Carlos Henrique Rodrigues do Nascimento, born 19 ...
and
Oliver. Notable people and characters with this form of the name include:
People
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Olly Alexander
Oliver Alexander Thornton (born 15 July 1990) is a British singer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of Years & Years and for his performance as Ritchie Tozer in the Channel 4 drama series, ''It's a Sin''.
Early life
Alexander w ...
(born 1990), British musician, actor, television presenter and LGBTQ advocate
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Olly Ashall-Bott (born 1997), English rugby league footballer who plays as a full-back or wing for the Widnes Vikings
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Olly Cracknell (born 1994), Welsh rugby union player who plays for Ospreys regional team as a flanker
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Olly Croft
Oliver Albert Croft, (17 November 1929 – 23 November 2019) was a darts administrator and the founder of the British Darts Organisation. He was one of the most influential protagonists in darts for almost four decades having set up and run the ...
(1929–2019), darts administrator
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Olly Dondokambey (born 1961), Indonesian politician
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Olly Donner (1881-1956), Finnish writer
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Olly Flynn
Oliver ("Olly") Thomas Flynn (born 30 June 1950 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is a retired male race walker from England.
Athletics career
Flynn represented Great Britain at the 1976 Olympic Games. He represented England and won a gold medal in the 3 ...
(born 1950), English race walker
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Olly Gebauer
Olly Gebauer (1908–1937) was an Austrian film actress.Vieira p.151 During the early sound era she established herself in the German film industry. Following the rise of the Nazi Party to power in 1933 she fled into exile with her Jewish husband, ...
(1908–1937), Austrian film actress
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Olly Hicks
Oliver "Olly" Hicks (born 3 December 1981) is a British ocean rower, kayaker, explorer and inspirational speaker. He holds three world records for adventure. He is best known for his solo ocean rows and extreme kayak voyages. He first made the he ...
, British kayaker, explorer and inspirational speaker
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Olly Holzmann
Olly Holzmann (1915–1995) was an Austrian dancer and film actress.Dassanowsky p.98 During the Second World War years, she appeared in films made by Wien-Film.
Selected filmography
* ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939)
* '' A Mother's Love'' (1939)
* ''Woma ...
(1915–1995), Austrian dancer and film actress
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Olly Kohn
Olly Kohn (born 19 March 1981, in Bristol) is a Wales international rugby union player for Harlequins having previously played for Bristol and Plymouth Albion.
A lock forward, Kohn won the English Premiership with Harlequins in 2011-12, startin ...
(born 1981), Welsh international rugby union player for Harlequins having previously played for Bristol and Plymouth Albion
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Olly Mann
Oliver Louis Mann is a British writer, presenter and gadget correspondent. He is best known as the presenter of the weekend evening show on LBC and for his work with longtime collaborator Helen Zaltzman with whom he presented the award-winning ...
(born 1981), British presenter
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Olly Martins
Oliver James Martins (born 17 December 1969 in Cambridge) is a British politician. He served as the Labour and Co-operative Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 to 2016.
Career
Martins spent eight years working for Victim Suppor ...
(born 1969), British politician
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Olly Moss
Oliver Jonathan Moss (born 24 January 1987) is an English Graphic designer, graphic artist, best known for his reimagining of movie posters. His work has been released by Mondo (American company), Mondo and is regularly featured in Empire (film ...
(born 1987), English graphic artist
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Olly Murs
Oliver Stanley Murs (born 14 May 1984) is an English singer, songwriter, and television presenter. He was runner-up on the sixth series of ''The X Factor'' in 2009 and was subsequently signed to RCA Records and Sony Music in the United Kingdom, ...
(born 1984), English singer, songwriter, television presenter and dancer
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Olly Robinson (born 1991), English rugby union player who plays for Cardiff Blues as a flanker
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Olly Simpson
Olly Simpson (born 10 January 1998 in Adelaide) is an Australian motorcycle racer. From 2013 to 2015 he was a competitor of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup
The Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup is a motorcycle racing series contested by young, up-and ...
(born 1998), Australian motorcycle racer
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Olly Stone
Oliver Peter Stone (born 9 October 1993) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Nottinghamshire and England. Stone is a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk and was educated at Thorpe St Andrew ...
(born 1993), English cricketer
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Olly Taylor (footballer)
Oliver Scott Taylor (born 13 December 1993) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Dorchester Town.
Career
Taylor started a two-year scholarship with Wycombe Wanderers in 2010. He finished his scholarship and signed his first prof ...
(born 1993), English footballer
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Olly Westbury
Oliver Edward Westbury (born 2 July 1997) is an English cricketer. He made his List A debut for Worcestershire against the West Indies A in a tri-series warm-up match on 19 June 2018. He made his Twenty20
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened ...
(born 1997), English cricketer
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Olly Williams
Olly and Suzi, Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, are two British artists who specialise in collaborative painting of endangered wildlife. Olly and Suzi met at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, in 1987, and developed their unique art making ...
, British wildlife painter
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Olly Woodburn (born 1991), English rugby union player for Exeter Chiefs
Characters
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Olly (mascot), one of the mascots of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
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Olly (Game of Thrones)
The characters from the medieval fantasy television series '' Game of Thrones'' are based on their respective counterparts from author George R. R. Martin's '' A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of novels. Set in a fictional universe that has bee ...
, in the ''Game of Thrones'' series
* Olly, a character in ''
The Sifl and Olly Show
''The Sifl and Olly Show'' is a comedy TV series that incorporates sock puppets, animation, and musical performances. Musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco created and performed the series. The first episode aired on MTV in 1998. The show was c ...
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Olly Manthrope-Hall
'' EastEnders: E20'' is a British Internet teen soap opera, available on BBC Online, the official website of the BBC. The series is a spin-off from the long-running soap opera '' EastEnders'' and was created by Diederick Santer. The series is s ...
, a character in the British soap opera ''
EastEnders: E20''
* King Olly, a character in ''
Paper Mario: The Origami King''
Other
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Olly (company)
Olly (stylized OLLY), also known as Olly Public Benefit, is an American company and brand of vitamin supplements and other products.
History
In 2012, Olly founder Eric Ryan sold his Method company to Ecover.
Olly was founded in 2013. Later, in 2 ...
, a vitamins company
See also
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Ollie (disambiguation)
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Olli (disambiguation)
Olli is a children's book character.
Olli may also refer to:
People with the surname
* Egil Olli (born 1949), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
*Harri Olli (born 1985), Finnish ski jumper who has been competing since 2002
* Simo-Pekka Ol ...
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Oli (disambiguation) Oli or OLI may refer to:
Places
* Oli-ye Jonubi, a village in Bushehr Province, Iran
* Oli-ye Shomali, a village in Bushehr Province, Iran
People
* Óli, a Faroese and Icelandic given name
* Oliver (given name), nickname
* Oli (footballer), a ...
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Oly (disambiguation)
Oly may refer to:
* Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States
* OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics
People with the name
* Oly (born 1992), American singer-songwriter and musician
* Oly Hicks (born 1968) ...
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