List of Famous people with last name Oliva

Tony Pedro Oliva is a Cuban former professional baseball right fielder, designated hitter, and coach, who played his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Minnesota Twins, from 1962 to 1976.

John Nicholas "Jon" Oliva is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. He is best known as the co-founder, keyboardist and lead vocalist of the band Savatage, which he co-founded with his younger brother Criss Oliva. Since 1996 he has also been a songwriter, musician and vocalist in Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Producer Paul O'Neill referred to Oliva in numerous interviews as the single greatest vocalist/musician he has ever worked with.

Pavel Oliva, born Pavel Ohrenstein was a Czech classical philologist, historian of antiquity, writer, and Holocaust survivor.

Josefa Durán y Ortega (1830–1871), known by the stage name Pepita de Oliva, was a Romani Spanish dancer who performed across Europe, popularizing Spanish flamenco dancing and costumes. Despite her official marriage with her dance teacher Juan Antonio Gabriel de la Oliva in 1851, the following year she established a partnership with the British diplomat Lionel Sackville-West with whom she had five children. Her daughter Victoria gave birth to the English writer Vita Sackville-West, who in 1937 published a biography of her grandmother titled Pepita.

Christian Gabriel Oliva Giménez is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Valencia, on loan from Cagliari.

Sergio Oliva was a Cuban bodybuilder known as "The Myth". He is a 3 time Mr Olympia winner.

Juan Carlos Oliva Fornos is a Spanish football manager.

Alexandre "Alex" Oliva, is a Brazilian free software activist, developer, vice president of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and founding member of Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA). He is currently on-hold from his PhD studies at the Institute of Computing of the State University of Campinas, Brazil whilst working as a compiler engineer at Red Hat, contributing in the GCC compiler. He is the maintainer of Linux-libre, a fork of the Linux kernel which removes non-free software components, such as binary blobs from the kernel. The Linux-libre kernels are used in Linux distributions such as Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, gNewSense, and Trisquel, all of which are recommended by the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project.