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Famous People with Name Oliver

Oliver as First Name

Oliver Adams     Oliver Adams        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Adams: an American actor who appeared as Bobby in the 2004 movie American Crime and in The Celestine Prophecy

Oliver Rutledge Hudson     Oliver Rutledge Hudson        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Rutledge Hudson: an American actor. He is the brother of actress Kate Hudson. In 2007, Hudson starred in the CBS Series Rules Of Engagement, co-starring David Spade.Hudson may be best remembered for starring in the TV series My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star and The Mountain (2004-2005), and supporting roles in the films New Best Friend (2002) and The Out-of-Towners (1999). Hudson also played opposite Katie Holmes as her love interest "Eddie Doling" in sixteen episodes of Dawson's Creek. Hudson played in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event but experienced terrible luck, when he went broke on the very first hand, losing to 2003 runner-up Sam Farha (who had a better Full House than Hudson).

Oliver Edwin Baker     Oliver Edwin Baker        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Edwin Baker: was an American economic geographer.By 1912 he took a job with the United States Department of Agriculture, where he would stay for the next thirty years. Baker's work was noticed rather quickly, in part because of his contributions to the Yearbooks from 1915 to 1938, several of which he edited. For the first eighteen years at the USDA he was devoted to studying the geographical aspects of land use. One of his first works, co-authoring Geography of the World's Agriculture (1917) with Vernor Clifford Finch, led him to even wider recognition. Shortly after its publication, Baker returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for further graduate study,

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.     Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" majority opinion in the 1919 case of Schenck v. United States, as well as one of the most influential American common-law judges.

Oliver Perry-Smith     Oliver Perry-Smith        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Perry-Smith: was an American climber who moved to Dresden in 1902 to attend a technical university. He became well-known in the Sächsische Schweiz for the first ascents of major peaks such as

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Oliver as Last Name

Andrew Oliver     Andrew Oliver       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andrew Oliver: was a merchant and public official in colonial Massachusetts.In 1765, Oliver was commissioned to administer the unpopular Stamp Act in Massachusetts. He was actually against the act, but that was just his personal life. Publicly, he told people he was wit

Thomas Oliver     Thomas Oliver       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Oliver: was the last Royal Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts.A mob of four thousand angry citizens forced him to resign on September 2, 1774. He fled to Boston, remaining there for a year. When the British troops sailed to Halifax in March 1776, Oliver went wi

George Tener Oliver     George Tener Oliver       Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Tener Oliver: was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. He was born in Dungannon, Ireland while his parents were visiting there. After graduating from Betha

Sheila Y. Oliver     Sheila Y. Oliver       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sheila Y. Oliver: is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2004, where she represents the 34th legislative district. She is the Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, having taken office on January 12, 2010 af

William Bacon Oliver     William Bacon Oliver       Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Bacon Oliver: was a Congressman from Alabama. He was born in Eutaw, Alabama, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1887 and from the law department in 1889. After additional courses at the University of Virginia in the same year, he was admitted to the Alabama ba

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