Olney may refer to:

Places

Australia

* Olney Parish, New South Wales

England

Olney, Buckinghamshire Olney (, rarely ) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 6,477 people. It lies on the River Great Ouse and is the n ...

, a town near Milton Keynes, England

United States

* Olney, Alabama * Olney, Georgia - see

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Olney, Illinois Olney ( ) is the county seat in Richland County, Illinois. The population was 9,115 at the time of the 2010 census. History Settlement of the Richland County area began around 1815 when Thaddeus Morehouse, a native of Vermont, arrived by wa ...

Olney Township, Richland County, Illinois Olney Township is located in Richland County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro Eas ...

Olney, Maryland Olney is a U.S. census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located in the north central part of the county, north of Washington, D.C. Olney was largely agricultural until the 1960s, when growth of ...

Olney Theatre Center Located in Olney, Maryland, the Olney Theatre Center offers a diverse array of professional productions year-round that enrich, nurture, and challenge a broad range of artists, audiences and students. One of two state theaters of Maryland, Olney ...

* Olney (Joppa, Maryland), a home on the National Register of Historic Places *

Olney Township, Nobles County, Minnesota Olney Township is a township in Nobles County, Minnesota, Nobles County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 232 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.5 squar ...

Olney, Missouri Olney is an unincorporated community in western Lincoln County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route O, approximately twelve miles northwest of Troy. History Olney was originally called Nineveh, and under the latt ...

Olney, Montana Olney is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Flathead County, Montana, United States. Its population was 191 as of the 2010 census. Olney has a post office with ZIP code 59927. The most recent 2020 census states the popul ...

* Olney, Oklahoma * Olney, Oregon *

Olney, Philadelphia Olney ( or ) is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is roughly bounded by Roosevelt Boulevard to the south, Tacony Creek to the east, Godfrey Avenue to the north, and the railroad right-of-way west of Seventh Stree ...

, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood *

Olney, Texas Olney is a city in Young County, Texas, United States. Its population was 3,007 in 2020. History On May 18, 1951, the city was devastated by a violent F4 tornado. Thomas P. Grazulis noted this tornado was possible F5 on the Fujita scale. Geograph ...

Schools

Olney Friends School Olney Friends School is a small, co-educational boarding and day school affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Barnesville, Ohio, the school "challenges students to grow ...

, Barnesville, Ohio *

Olney High School Olney Charter High School, formerly Aspira Charter School at Olney, and Olney High School, is a public high school located in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Previously directly controlled by the School District of Philade ...

, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

People

Buster Olney Robert "Buster" Olney (born ) is an American sports journalist for ESPN, ''ESPN: The Magazine'', and ESPN.com. He previously covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for ''The New York Times''. He is also a regular analyst for the ES ...

(born 1964), baseball commentator *

Cyrus Olney Cyrus Olney (October 11, 1815 – December 12, 1870) was an American politician and lawyer in what would become the state of Oregon. He was the 6th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving while the region was still the Oregon Territory. A nati ...

(1815–1870), American politician and judge *

David Olney David Charles Olney (March 23, 1948 – January 18, 2020) was an American folk music, folk singer-songwriter. Olney recorded more than twenty albums over his five-decade career. His songs have been covered by numerous artists, including Emmylou ...

(1948–2020), American singer and songwriter *

Frank F. Olney Frank Fuller Olney (March 12, 1851 – October 24, 1903) was the 18th mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. He served from 1894 until 1896. Personal life Frank Olney was born March 12, 1851, in Jersey City, New Jersey to Elam Ward Olney and Helen Fu ...

(1851–1903) 18th mayor of Providence, Rhode Island 1894-1896 *

Howard Olney Howard William Olney (born 7 October 1934) is the Australian Aboriginal Lands Commissioner. Olney was born in Nedlands and attended Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1957 and as a mag ...

(born 1934), Australian jurist and Aboriginal Lands Commissioner 2007- *

Ian Olney Ian Olney (born 17 December 1969) is a former footballer who played as a forward. He started his career at Aston Villa in 1988, for whom he made 88 league appearances, scoring 16 goals, and 4 years later was sold to Oldham Athletic for £750,0 ...

(born 1969), English association footballer *

Jeremiah Olney Jeremiah Olney (1749 – 10 November 1812) was born into an old family from Rhode Island. He formed a company of infantry from that state at the start of the American Revolutionary War. After serving as captain in 1776, he was promoted to lie ...

(1749–1812), Continental Army soldier and older brother of Stephen Olney *

John Olney John Olney (1932 – April 14, 2015) was a medical doctor and a professor of psychiatry, pathology, and immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine. He is known for his work on brain damage. He coined the term excitotoxicity in his 1 ...

(1932–2015), physician, medical scientist and critic of food additives *

Martha Olney Martha Louise Olney (born November 27, 1956) is a teaching professor of economics (2002–present) at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a winner of local and national teaching awards, and has authored several leading undergradua ...

(born 1956), economics professor and textbook author * Peter B. Olney (1843–1922), New York County District Attorney 1883–1884 *

Richard Olney Richard Olney (September 15, 1835 – April 8, 1917) was an American statesman. He served as United States Attorney General in the cabinet of Grover Cleveland and Secretary of State under Cleveland. As attorney general, Olney used injunct ...

(1835–1917), United States Attorney General and Secretary of State *

Richard Olney II Richard Olney (January 5, 1871 Milton, Strafford County, New Hampshire – January 15, 1939 Boston, Massachusetts) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Life He attended the public schools, Leicester A ...

(1871–1939), Congressman from Massachusetts *

Richard Olney (food writer) Richard Olney (April 12, 1927 – August 3, 1999) was an American painter, cook, food writer, editor, and memoirist, best known for his books of French country cooking. Biography Olney was born in Marathon, Iowa. He lived in a house above the ...

(1927–1999), American writer *

Sarah Olney Sarah Jane Olney (' McGibbon; born 11 January 1977) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former accountant who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park since 2019, and previously from 2016 to 2017. Olney has served as ...

(born 1977), British Liberal Democrat politician and an accountant * Stephen Olney (1755–1832), Continental Army soldier and Rhode Island legislator *

Violet Olney Violet Rose Olney (later ''Parish''; 22 May 1911 – 3 January 1999) was an English athlete from Southwark, London,England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: Violet R Olney; Apr-May-Jun quarter 1911; District: Southwark; Volume: 1d; Page: 54 ...

(1911–1999), British athlete *

Warren Olney Warren Olney, Sr. (March 11, 1841 – June 2, 1921) was an American lawyer, conservationist, and politician, in California. He was a founding member, alongside John Muir and the young botany professor, Willis Linn Jepson of the University of ...

(1841–1921), co-founder of the Sierra Club, mayor of Oakland, California *

Warren Olney Jr. Warren Olney Jr. (October 15, 1870 – March 25, 1939) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from March 1, 1919, to July 1921. Early life and education Olney was the second of six children b ...

(1870–1939), Justice of the California Supreme Court *

Warren Olney IV Warren Olney IV is an American broadcast journalist. He was the host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated Public Radio International weekday afternoon program ''To the Point'', which originated at Santa Monica, California public rad ...

(born 1938), broadcast journalist in Los Angeles, California

Other uses

* Olney station (disambiguation), stations of the name * Olney Formation, in the

Murray Basin The Murray Basin is a Cenozoic sedimentary basin in south eastern Australia. The basin is only shallow, but extends into New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It takes its name from the Murray River which traverses the Basin from eas ...

, Australia