Olive (disambiguation)

Olive is a genus of about 20 species of small trees in the family Oleaceae, and the fruit of those trees.

Olive may also refer to:

Color

• Olive (color), a dark yellowish-green color
• Olive skin, a type of skin color

Places

United States

• Olive, California
• Olive, Indiana
• Olive, Missouri
• Olive, Montana
• Olive, New York
• Olive, Oklahoma
• Olive, Virginia
• Olive, West Virginia
• Olive Green (disambiguation), two places in Ohio and one in England
• Olive Township (disambiguation), several places in the United States

Elsewhere

• Olive Island, an island in South Australia
• Mount Olive (disambiguation), various mountains

People

• Olive (given name)
• Olive (martyr) (Blessed Olive), a Catholic martyr from Italy
• Olive, Lady Baillie (1899–1974), Anglo-American heiress, landowner and hostess
• Fernand Olive (1891-1949), French general
• Jean-Baptiste Olive (1848–1936), French painter
• Karl Olive (born 1969), French sports journalist and politician
• Milton L. Olive, III (1946–1965), United States Army soldier during the Vietnam War
• Rich Olive (1949–2016), American politician
• Olive Ayhens, American artist (born 1943)
• Bobby Olive
• Jason Olive
• Mark Olive

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Olive, heroine of Olive, the Other Reindeer , an animated Christmas special
• Olive, The Bash St. Kids' school cook
• Olive Doyle, a main character from the show A.N.T. Farm
• Olive, a main character from the show Elinor Wonders Why
• Olive, a character in the animated series Adventure Time: Distant Lands episode "BMO"
• Olive Kitteridge, the title character of a novel by Elizabeth Strout
• Agent Olive, a character from the show Odd Squad in Season 1
• Olive Hoover, a main character in the film Little Miss Sunshine
• Olive Hornby, a minor character important to the backstory of Harry Potter character Moaning Myrtle
• Olive Oyl, Popeye's girlfriend
• Olive Penderghast, the protagonist of the 2010 film Easy A
• Olive Rozalski, a main character from the 2019 TV show Sydney to the Max
• Olive Rudge, a character from the 1969 TV show On The Buses
• Olive Snook, a character from the 2007 TV show Pushing Daisies
• Olive Stone, a character from the 2018 TV show Manifest

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Olive (band), an English electronic music group
• Olive (film), a 1988 Australian television film
• Olive (magazine), a British food magazine
• Olive, a 2017 album by Sky-Hi

Biology

Plants

• Saint Helena olive, a tree in the family Rhamnaceae
• Canarium album (Chinese olive), a tree in the family Burseraceae with fruit resembling mediterranean olives
• Olive leaf, a plant that is used medicinally

Animals

• Olive baboon, Papio anubis, a species of baboon
• Olive colobus, a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae
• Olive ibis, a species of bird in the family Threskiornithidae found in parts of Africa
• Olive long-tailed cuckoo, a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae
• Olive sparrow, Arremonops rufivirgatus, a species of American sparrow in the family Emberizidae
• Olive thrush, one of the most common members of the thrush family (Turdidae)
• Olive whistler, Pachycephala olivacea, a species of bird of the whistler family Pachycephalidae that is native to southeastern Australia
• Olive woodpecker, a species of bird in the family Picidae, found in parts of Africa
• Olive bee-eater, a species of bird in the family Meropidae, found in parts of Africa
• Olive python, Liasis olivaceus, the second largest Australian python
• Olive snout-burrower, a species of frog in the family Hemisotidae
• Olive snail, a family of medium to large predatory sea snails

Other uses

• Olive (1802 ship), launched in Calcutta
• Olive (software), a free, open-source and non-linear video editing software
• Olivary body, nicknamed the olive, a part of the brain (brainstem)
• Olive, a compression ring used in plumbing
• Mono Olive, a subproject of the Mono project
• Tropical Storm Olive (disambiguation), the name of eleven tropical cyclones