The name Olympia may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

* ''Olympia'' (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games * ''Olympia'' (1998 film), about a Mexican soap opera star who pursues a career as an athlete * ''Olympia'' (2011 film), about an aspiring porn actress * ''Olympia'' (2018 drama film), an American romantic drama * ''Olympia'' (2018 documentary film), about the career of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis

Music

Olympia (musician) Olivia Jayne Bartley (born 1982, Wollongong), who also performs as Olympia, is an Australian art-pop singer-songwriter-guitarist. She released her debut studio album '' Self Talk'' in April 2016 which received an ARIA Award nomination at the A ...

, Australian art-pop singer-songwriter-guitarist Olivia Jayne Bartley (born 1982) * ''Olympia'' (Bryan Ferry album) * ''Olympia'' (Austra album) * Olympia (EP), an EP by The Maybes? * "Olympia" (song), a song by Sergio Mendes

Other arts and entertainment

* ''Olympia'' (Manet), an 1863 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet * ''Olympia'', a 1948 oil on canvas painting by

René Magritte René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and bounda ...

Olympia (comics) The Eternals are a fictional extraterrestrial race of humanoids appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They were created by Jack Kirby, making their first appearance in ''The Eternals'' #1 (July 1976). In the Marvel U ...

, a fictional city in Marvel Comics * Olympia, a mechanical doll in E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story "

Der Sandmann "The Sandman" ( German: ''Der Sandmann'') is a short story by . It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled ''Die Nachtstücke'' (''The Night Pieces''). Plot summary The story is told by a narrator who claims to have known Lothar. It beg ...

", and in the opera ''

The Tales of Hoffmann ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work; he died ...

'' by Jacques Offenbach

Buildings and landmarks

Olympia (Paris) The Olympia (; commonly known as L'Olympia or in the English-speaking world as Olympia Hall) is a concert venue in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, 9th arrondissement of Paris, France, located at 28 Boulevard des Capucines, equally distancing La ...

, a famous music hall in Paris, France *

Olympia London Olympia London, sometimes referred to as the Olympia Exhibition Centre, is an exhibition centre, event space and conference centre in West Kensington, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England. A range of internation ...

, an exhibition centre in London, UK *

Olympia Apartments (Washington, D.C.) Olympia Apartments is an historic structure located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in Washington, D.C.'s Northwest Quadrant. Albert B. Morgan designed this apartment building and it was completed in 1898. The official District of Columbia ...

, U.S., listed on the National Register of Historic Places *

Olympia Building The Olympia Building is a landmark at the absolute center of Atlanta, Five Points in Downtown Atlanta. History The building was built between 1935 and 1936, architects Ivey and Crook. Since 2003, a flashing Coca-Cola sign has stood on top o ...

, Atlanta, location of an iconic Coca-Cola sign *

Detroit Olympia Detroit Olympia, also known as Olympia Stadium, was a multi-purpose arena in Detroit. Nicknamed "The Old Red Barn", it was best known as the home of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL) from its opening in 1927 to 1979. Histo ...

, the former stadium of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings *

Kensington (Olympia) station Kensington (Olympia) is a combined rail and tube station in Kensington, on the edge of Central London. Services are provided by London Overground, who manage the station, along with Southern (train operating company), Southern and London Underg ...

, a station in London, UK *

Liverpool Olympia The Eventim Olympia (originally the Liverpool Olympia) is a venue in Liverpool, England, situated on West Derby Road next to The Grafton Ballroom. History The Liverpool Olympia was built in 1905 For Moss Empires Ltd by architect Frank Matcham ...

, a theatre in Liverpool, UK *

Olympia Milk Bar Stanmore is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia 6 kilometres south west of the Sydney central business district. It is part of the local government area of the Inner West Council. It is known for its long s ...

, a cultural landmark in Sydney, Australia *

Olympia Theatre, Dublin The Olympia Theatre, known for sponsorship and advertising purposes as the 3Olympia Theatre, is a concert hall and theatre venue in Dublin, Ireland, located on Dame Street. In addition to Irish acts, the venue has played host to many well-known ...

, a concert hall in Dublin, Ireland *

Olympia Theatre (New York) The Olympia Theatre (1514–16 Broadway at 44th Street), also known as Hammerstein's Olympia, was a theatre complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I in Longacre Square (later Times Square), New York City, opening in 1895. It consisted of ...

, a now-demolished theatre complex in New York City, U.S. *

Olympia (São Paulo) Olympia was a 5,000-capacity music venue located in the São Paulo, Brazil. It was open from 1988 until 2006. A few of the notable artists that performed at Olympia include The Ramones, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Uriah Heep, Eric Clapton, Deep Pu ...

, a former music venue in São Paulo, Brazil

Businesses

* , a British CD label active in the 1990s releasing material from the Soviet Union, Poland, the Netherlands and other countries *

Olympia Brewing Company The Olympia Brewing Company was a brewery in the northwest United States, located in Tumwater, Washington, near Olympia. Founded in 1896 by Leopold Friederich Schmidt, it was bought by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1983. Through a series of co ...

(1896–2003), a brewery in Tumwater, Washington, U.S. *

Olympia Capital Holdings Olympia Capital Holdings Limited is a holding company comprising several businesses in East and Southern Africa. The company's headquarters are located in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Botswana and South Africa. The company is liste ...

, a holding company for several African businessese *

Olympia Press Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebranded version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It published a mix of erotic fiction and avant-garde literary fiction, and is bes ...

, a French publisher *

Olympia and York Olympia & York (also spelled as Olympia and York, abbreviated as O&Y) was a major international property development firm based in Toronto, Canada. The firm built major financial office complexes including Canary Wharf in London, the World Fina ...

, a now-bankrupt property firm based in Canada *

Olympia-Werke Olympia-Werke AG was an important German manufacturer of typewriters. Since the plant in near Wilhelmshaven was closed in 1991, only the brand name has survived. Beginnings (1903–1945) As typewriters became increasingly popular in Germany ...

, a former major manufacturer of typewriters in Germany *

Olympia Sports Olympia Sports was a sporting goods Retail company. The company was founded in 1975 in Portland, Maine. Before it went under liquidation, Olympia Sports had 152 locations, mostly across New England, New York, and the Mid-Atlantic. It was headqua ...

, a sporting goods company

Military

* , ships of the Royal Navy * , two US Navy ships named after the city of Olympia * ''Olympia''-class cruiser, a US Navy class of protected cruisers

Organisms

* ''Olympia'', a section of the plant genus ''Hypericum'' (St. John's-worts) * ''

Olympia oyster ''Ostrea lurida'', common name the Olympia oyster, after Olympia, Washington in the Puget Sound area, is a species of edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae. This species occurs on the northern Pacific coast of North A ...

'', a Pacific coast oyster * ''

Euchloe olympia Dangers To Olympia Marble ''Euchloe olympia'', the Olympia marble, is a butterfly in the family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity ( ...

'', a North American butterfly commonly called the Olympia Marble

People

Olympia (given name) Olympia is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons (1638–1708), second-eldest of the five celebrated Mancini sisters and mother of Austrian general Prince Eugene of Savoy * Princess Mar ...

* Olympia, a nickname for American professional bodybuilder

Iris Kyle Iris Floyd Kyle (born August 22, 1974) is an African-Indian American professional female bodybuilder. She is currently the most successful female professional bodybuilder ever with seventeen titles including ten overall Ms. Olympia wins (the m ...

(born 1974)

Places

Greece

Olympia, Greece Olympia ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ολυμπία ; grc, Ὀλυμπία ), officially Archaia Olympia ( el, label=Modern Greek, Αρχαία Ολυμπία; grc, Ἀρχαία Ὀλυμπία, links=no; "Ancient Olympia"), is a small town in E ...

, the site of the ancient Olympic Games *

Olympia Province Olympia Province ( el, Επαρχία Ολυμπίας) was one of the provinces of the Elis Prefecture, Greece. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Andritsaina-Krestena and Zacharo Zacharo ( el, Ζαχάρω) is a ...

, a former province of Greece

United States

Olympia, Georgia Olympia is an extinct town in Lowndes County, Georgia, Lowndes County, in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History A post office called Olympia was established in 1898, and remained in operation until 1916. The community derives it ...

, a ghost town *

Olympia, Kentucky Olympia is an unincorporated community in Bath County, Kentucky, United States. The community is located along Kentucky Route 36 southeast of Owingsville. Olympia has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that p ...

, an unincorporated community *

Olympia, Missouri Olympia is an unincorporated community in Cedar County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route 97 Route 97 is a highway in southwest Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 32 eight miles (13 km) south of ...

, an unincorporated community *

Olympia, South Carolina Olympia is an urban unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census with a population of 1,087. The CDP is in western Richland County ...

, a census-designated place *

Olympia, Washington Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. European ...

, the state capital

Schools

* Olympia High School (disambiguation), several high schools in the United States * Olympia College, a for-profit group of American colleges, part of the

Everest College Everest College was a system of colleges in the United States, and with Wyotech, made up Zenith Education. It was until 2015 a system of for-profit colleges in the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario, owned and operated by Corint ...

system

Sport

Sports clubs

* Olympia FC (disambiguation), several football clubs *

Olympia Club de Bruxelles Olympia Club de Bruxelles was a Brussels-based Belgian football club A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an oppo ...

, a former Belgian football club *

Olympia Sofia Olympia Sofia (Олимпия София) is a Bulgarian women's football club from the capital city Sofia, currently playing in the Bulgarian AFG, the top division of Bulgarian women's football. In 2010–11 season the team wоn the Bulgarian Wo ...

, a women's football club in Sofia, Bulgaria *

TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven is a German sports club based in Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony, on the northwestern coast of the country. The football team was a department of the club which also offers its members American football, athletics, table t ...

, a German sports club *

Olympia Larissa BC Olympia Larissa B.C. (alternate spellings: Olimpia, Larissas, Larisa, Larisas) (Greek: Ολύμπια Λάρισας) was a Greek professional basketball club, based in Larissa, Greece. The club's full name was Olympia Larissa Basketball Club. It ...

, a basketball club based in Larissa, Greece *

Olympia București Olympia București was a football club based in Bucharest, in southern Romania. It was founded in 1904 and it soon became one of the best teams in the country, winning two Romanian Championships. The club was dissolved in 1946. History The firs ...

, a football club based in Bucharest, Romania *

Olympia HC Olympia Handball Club London is a handball club from London, England that has men’s and women’s teams competing in the Premier Handball League, Regional Development League and a number of Junior leagues. Club history The club was establish ...

, a handball club in London, United Kingdom

Facilities

, the former stadium of the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings *

Olympia Skistadion The name Olympia may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Olympia'' (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games * ''Olympia'' (1998 film), about a Mexican soap opera star who pursues a career as an athlet ...

, a ski-jumping facility in Garmisch, Germany *

Olympia (Helsingborg) Olympia, sometimes referred to as ''Olympiastadion'' ( en, Olympic Stadium), is a football stadium in Helsingborg, Sweden. It was opened in 1898, but has been rebuilt in 1993, 1997 and 2014–2017, and has a capacity of 17,200 (9,673 seated and a ...

, a football stadium in Helsingborg, Sweden *

Olympia Ice Center Olympia Ice Center is a 2,200-seat hockey rink in West Springfield, Massachusetts. It is currently home to the Western New England University men's and woman's ice hockey teams. The teams compete in the Commonwealth Coast Conference of the NCAA ...

, a hockey rink in West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States *

Olympia Leisure Centre (1974) The Olympia Leisure Centre was a swimming pool in Dundee. History The facility was built on an infilled dock. The facility opened on 15 July 1974. The facility reopened on 28 August 1991 as the Olympia. Operation of the pool transferred from ...

, a former swimming pool in Dundee, Scotland *

Olympia Leisure Centre (2013) The Olympia Leisure Centre is a swimming pool in Dundee, Scotland. It is currently closed for repair work. History The building was constructed to replace the original Olympia Leisure Centre and is situated on a former car park. Construction ...

, a swimming pool in Dundee, Scotland

Other sports

Olympia (horse) Olympia (1946–1974) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won top races at age two through four then became a foundation sire for Florida breeder, Fred W. Hooper. Bred by Hall of Fame jockey turned trainer, Ivan H. Parke, he was sired by ...

, an American Thoroughbred racehorse *

Mr. Olympia Mr. Olympia is the title awarded to the winner of the professional men's bodybuilding contest at Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend—an international bodybuilding competition that is held annually by the International Federation ...

, an annual bodybuilding contest *

Ms. Olympia The IFBB Ms. Olympia is both the highest ranking professional female bodybuilding competition and the title of the winner of the competition. It was first organized in 1980, and was held as part of the Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance ...

, an annual women's bodybuilding contest

Transportation

Maritime

* , a steamship that served the northwest United States and Alaska * MV ''Olympia'', original name of SPL ''Princess Anastasia'' (1986), a cruiseferry operated by Viking Line between 1986 and 1993 * ''Olympia'', later MS ''Regal Empress'', an ocean liner *

Olympia Terminal The Olympia Terminal ( fi, Olympiaterminaali, sv, Olympiaterminalen) is a dock in the South Harbour of Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by the Hytönen- Luukkonen architects bureau and opened for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Today, the termina ...

, a dock in the South Harbour of Helsinki, Finland

Other transportation

Olympia Regional Airport Olympia Regional Airport is a public use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) south of the central business district of Olympia, a city in Thurston County and the capital of the U.S. state of Washington. It is owned by the Port of ...

, Olympia, Washington, United States, a public use airport * EoN Olympia, a glider built in numbers in the 1940s in the United Kingdom *

Opel Olympia The Opel Olympia is a compact car by German automaker Opel, then part of G.M., from 1935 to 1940, and after World War II continued from 1947 to 1953. It was one of the world's first mass-produced cars with a unitary body structure, after the 1934 ...

, a family car *

Olympia railway station Olympia railway station ( el, Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Ολυμπίας, Sidirodromikós stathmós Olympia) is a railway station that serves the town of Olympia, Elis in Western Greece, Greece. Located in the centre of Olympia, ...

, Olympia, Greece

Other uses

582 Olympia Olympia (minor planet designation: 582 Olympia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. References External links * * Background asteroids Olympia Olympia The name Olympia may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Olympia'' (1938 ...

, an asteroid *

Olympia Academy The Olympia Academy (German: ''Akademie Olympia'') was a group of friends in Bern, Switzerland, who met – usually at Albert Einstein's apartment – to discuss philosophy and physics. Overview The group was founded in 1902 by Einstein, ...

or "Akademie Olympia", a semi-formal group of friends that included Albert Einstein *

Walther Olympia The Walther Model 1936 Olympia II is a single action semi-automatic handgun manufactured by Walther. The first version was the M1925, formally known as the Automatic Walther Sport Pistol cal. 22 LR, and was introduced in 1925. It was followed by th ...

, a 1936 semi-automatic handgun manufactured by Walther *

Olympia (ice resurfacer) Resurfice Corporation is a manufacturer of ice resurfacing equipment based in Elmira, Ontario, Canada. Their Olympia brand product line includes push models through full size models built on a Chevy Powertrain. In early 2009, Don Schlupp, the ...

, a line of ice resurfacers manufactured by Resurfice Corporation