Famous People with Name Oliver

Oliver White Hill Sr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver White Hill Sr: was a civil rights attorney from Richmond, Virginia. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." He also helped win landmark legal decisions involving equality in pay for black teachers, access to school buses, voting rights, jury selection, and employment protection. He retired in 1998 after practicing law for almost 60 years.

Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr.: was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last living member. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.He was a directing animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978. He contributed to many films including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, in which he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus.

Oliver Eaton Williamson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Eaton Williamson: is a prominent author in the area of transaction cost economics, a student of Ronald Coase, Herbert Simon and Richard Cyert. Prof. Williamson received his Bachelor of Science in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1955, M.B.A. from Stanford University in 1960, and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1963. He has held professorships in business administration, economics, and law at the University of California, Berkeley since 1988 and is currently the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business. [1]

Oliver James Platt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver James Platt: Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to American parents Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad,[1] and Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines.[2] His family

Oliver Taylor Hawkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Taylor Hawkins: Prior to joining the band in 1997, he was the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette on her Jagged Little Pill tour, as well as the drummer in a short-lived experimental band called Sylvia. His cousin, Kevin Harrell introduced him to Dave Grohl, after camp

Samuel Addison Oliver            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Addison Oliver: was an American pioneer, lawyer, judge, and politician from western Iowa. Oliver was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives of the Tenth Iowa General Assembly in 1863, to represent the district composed of the counties of Carroll, Crawford, Monona a

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            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            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            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