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 ARI ...

, 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 Belgium, Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature ...

Olympia (comics) The Eternals are a 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 Universe, the Eternals are an ...

, 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 in ...

'' by Jacques Offenbach

Buildings and landmarks

United Kingdom

Kensington (Olympia) station Kensington (Olympia) is an interchange station between the Mildmay line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern, located in Kensington, West London. Limited services on the District line of the London Underg ...

, a station in London, UK *

Liverpool Olympia The Liverpool Olympia (Known for sponsorship reasons as the Eventim 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 ...

, a theatre in Liverpool, UK *

Olympia London Olympia Events, formerly known as Olympia London and 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, L ...

, an exhibition centre in London, UK

United States

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. Hist ...

, the former stadium of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings * Olympia Apartments (Washington, D.C.), U.S., listed on the National Register of Historic Places * Olympia Building, Atlanta, location of an iconic Coca-Cola sign *

Olympia Theatre (New York) The Olympia Theatre (1514–16 Broadway at 44th Street), also known as Hammerstein's Olympia and later the Lyric Theatre and the New York Theatre, was a theater complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I at Longacre Square (later Times ...

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

Elsewhere

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 ...

, famous music hall in France *

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 P ...

, former music venue in Brazil *

Olympia Milk Bar Stanmore is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia 3 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 ...

, cultural landmark in Sydney, Australia *

Olympia Theatre, Dublin The Olympia Theatre, branded since 2021 for sponsorship 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 in ...

, concert hall in Ireland *

Olympia Theatre, Perth Luna Leederville (formerly ''New Oxford Theatre'', ''Nickelodeon'', Olympia, Star Theatre and Luna Cinema) is a cinema complex located at the corner of Oxford and Vincent Street, North Perth, Vincent streets in Leederville, Western Australia, L ...

, Australia, now the Luna Leederville *

Wirth's Olympia Wirth's Circus, also known as Wirth Brothers' Circus, was Australia's largest and most prestigious circus company for eight decades. Billed as Australia's own 'Greatest show on Earth' (a reference to the slogan of the American Ringling Bros. a ...

, venue in Melbourne, Australia

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 which operated at the Olympia Brewery in Tumwater, Washington. Founded in 1896 by Leopold Friederich Schmidt, it was bought by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1983. Through a series of consolidations, it ...

(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 ...

, 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, Ontario, Canada. The firm built major financial office complexes including Canary Wharf in London, the W ...

, a now-bankrupt property firm based in Canada *

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

, a former major manufacturer of typewriters in Germany * Olympia Sports, 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'', a Pacific coast oyster * ''

Euchloe olympia ''Euchloe olympia'', the Olympia marble, is a butterfly in the family (biology), family Pieridae. Its range is southern Canada and the Midwest, down into the southwestern United States. ''E. olympia'' is related to ''E. guaymasensis'', but has a ...

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

People

* Olympia (given name) * Olympia, a nickname for American professional bodybuilder

Iris Kyle Iris Floyd Kyle (born Mildred Carter; August 22, 1974) is an American professional female bodybuilder. She is currently the most successful, female or male, professional bodybuilder ever. She has a total of twenty professional bodybuilding t ...

(born 1974)

Places

Greece

Olympia, Greece Olympia ( ; ), officially Archaia Olympia ( ), is a small town in Elis (regional unit), Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name. The site was a major Panhellenic sanctuary, Panhell ...

, the site of the ancient Olympic Games * Olympia Province, a former province of Greece

United States

* Olympia, Georgia, a ghost town * Olympia, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Olympia, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Olympia, South Carolina, a census-designated place *

Olympia, Washington Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington. It had a population of 55,605 at the 2020 census, making it the state of Washington's 23rd-most populous city. Olympia is the county seat of Thurston County, and the central city ...

, 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 Cori ...

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 In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association footba ...

, a former Belgian football club * Olympia Sofia, 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, 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 first ...

, a football club based in Bucharest, Romania *

Olympia HC Olympia Handball Club London is a handball club from London, England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, an ...

, a handball club in London, United Kingdom

Facilities

, the former stadium of the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings * Olympia Skistadion, a ski-jumping facility in Garmisch, Germany *

Olympia (Helsingborg) Olympia, sometimes referred to as ''Olympiastadion'' (), 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 16,000 (14,000 seated and 2,000 standing). Al ...

, a football stadium in Helsingborg, Sweden * Olympia Ice Center, 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 was closed for two years until it reopened on 18 December 2023. History The building was constructed to replace the original Olympia Leisure Centre and is situated on a for ...

, a swimming pool in Dundee, Scotland

Other sports

* Olympia (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse *

Mr. Olympia Mr. Olympia is the title awarded to the winner of the professional men's bodybuilding contest in the open division at Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend—an international bodybuilding competition that is held annually and is sanct ...

, an annual bodybuilding contest * Ms. Olympia, 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 (, ) 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 terminal has a regular connection to Stockholm, acti ...

, 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 O ...

, Olympia, Washington, United States, a public use airport *

EoN Olympia The Eon Olympia was a glider produced from 1947 by Elliotts of Newbury. Design and development Elliotts had been asked in 1945 by Chilton Aircraft Ltd to make one set of wings for the Chilton Olympia, a glider that had been developed in pre- ...

, 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 () is a railway station that serves the town of Olympia, Greece, Olympia, Elis (regional unit), Elis in Western Greece, Greece. Located in the centre of Olympia, the station was opened in 1891 by the Pyrgos-Katakolo Railwa ...

, Olympia, Greece

Other uses

* 582 Olympia, 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, a 1936 semi-automatic handgun manufactured by Walther *

Olympia (ice resurfacer) Resurfice Corporation is a manufacturer of ice resurfacer, ice resurfacing equipment based in Elmira, Ontario, Elmira, Ontario, Canada. Their Olympia brand product line includes push models through full size models built on a Chevrolet powertra ...

, a line of ice resurfacers manufactured by Resurfice Corporation

Arts and entertainment

Film

Music

Other arts and entertainment

Buildings and landmarks

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Businesses

Military

Organisms

People

Places

Greece

United States

Schools

Sport

Sports clubs

Facilities

Other sports

Transportation

Maritime

Other transportation

Other uses

See also