List of Famous people named Oliver
Oliver Hynd
Oliver William Hynd MBE, known as Ollie, is a British swimmer. He competed in the Paralympics as a class 8 swimmer, having neuromuscular myopathy and associated limb deformities. In 2018, following reclassification protocols, Hynd moved into the S9 class, but remained in SB8 for breaststroke.
Oliver Vitouch
Oliver Vitouch is an Austrian psychologist and cognitive scientist. He has served as Rector of the University of Klagenfurt since 2012, and as Vice-President and President, respectively, of Universities Austria since 2016.
Oliver Glasner
Oliver Glasner is an Austrian professional football manager for VfL Wolfsburg. He was former player who played as a defender for Austrian Football Bundesliga side SV Ried.
Oliver Hart
Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart is a British-born American economist, currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Together with Bengt R. Holmström, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.
Óliver Laxe
Óliver Laxe Coro is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ethnicity. His debut feature film You All Are Captains premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His third film Fire Will Come was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize.
Oliver Roggisch
Oliver Roggisch is a retired German team handball player who played for Rhein-Neckar Löwen.He currently serves as the sporting director for the Löwen as well as for the German national team. Roggisch is a World champion from 2007 with the German national team. He participated for the German team that finished fourth at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship.
Oliver Skipp
Oliver William Skipp is an English professional footballer for the Championship club Norwich City, on loan from Tottenham Hotspur, who plays as a central midfielder.
Oliver Riedel
Oliver "Ollie" Riedel is a German musician, best known as the bassist for German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein.
Oliver Townend
Oliver Townend is a British eventing rider competing at the international three-day level. His wins include team gold at the 2007, 2009 and 2017 European Championships and wins at Badminton Horse Trials, Burghley Horse Trials, and the Kentucky Three Day Event. He also represented Britain at the World Equestrian Games in 2006 and 2014. He was the Event Rider Masters series champion in 2016. He has been eventing's world number one twice, in 2009 and again in 2018, and British number one seven times since 2009.
Oliver Farnworth
Oliver Farnworth is an English actor. Farnworth was brought up just outside Halifax in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, but moved to Sidmouth in Devon when he was fifteen. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He first came to recognition in Hollyoaks playing Will Hackett from September 2006 to May 2007.