Famous People with Name Olin

Olin Dutra            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Olin Dutra: (January 17, 1901 – May 5, 1983) was a professional golfer

Olin Jeuck Eggen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Olin Jeuck Eggen: was an American astronomer. Some sources incorrectly give his name as Olin Jenck Eggen.He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1940. After serving in World War II in the OSS, he returned to the university and received his Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1948.He became known as one of the best observational astronomers of his time. He is best known for a seminal 1962 paper with Donald Lynden-Bell and Allan Sandage which suggested for the first time that the Galaxy had collapsed out of a gas cloud. He first introduced the now-accepted notion of moving groups of stars.

Olin Chaddock Wilson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Olin Chaddock Wilson: was an American astronomer best known for his work as a stellar spectroscopist.Wilson showed an interest in physics at an early age. He studied astronomy and physics at the University of California, Berkeley and wrote his first scientific paper in 1932 on the subject of the speed of light. He received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1934.Wilson was a staff member of Mount Wilson Observatory for most of his research career where he studied stellar chromospheres. He was the first scientist to discover activity cycles, similar to the solar 11-year sunspot cycle, in other stars. In collaboration with Vainu Bappu he also showed that there was a correlation between the width of the Ca II lines in stellar spectra and the star's luminosity, the Wilson-Bappu Effect.

Olin Levi Warner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Olin Levi Warner: an American sculptor and artist, was noted for the striking bas relief portrait medallions and busts he created in the late 19th century.Warner was born in Suffield, Connecticut. As a young man he worked as an artisan and a telegraph operator. In 1869 he

Olin Stephen Pace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Olin Stephen Pace: was an American politician and lawyer.From 1917 to 1920, Pace served in the Georgia House of Representatives and then served in the Georgia Senate from 1923 to 1924. In 1936, he won election as a Democrat representing Georgia's 3rd congressional district

Elisabeth Olin            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Elisabeth Olin: was one of the first professional female singers in Sweden, the first Swedish Opera- prima donna, a court-singer, an actress, and composer. Together with Fredrique Löwen, she was the most successful Swedish actress in the 18th century.

Lena Maria Jonna Olin            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Lena Maria Jonna Olin: an Academy Award-nominated Swedish actress.It was Ingmar Bergman who had cast her for the first time (in a small part in Face to Face), after she had not passed her first audition for theatre school because of her shyness. Later she acted at the national stage in Stockholm in several productions directed by Bergman, and with Bergman's production of King Lear (in which Olin played Cordelia) she toured national theatres in Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen

Stig Olin            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Stig Olin: was a Swedish actor, theatre director, songwriter and singer. Father of actress Lena Olin and Swedish singer Mats Olin.Enjoyed a successful acting career when he acted in leading parts in a number of early Ingmar Bergman films, including Torment (Swedish: Hets) (1944; Bergman's script debut), Crisis (1946), Kvinna utan ansikte (Woman Without a Face) (1947; script by Bergman), Port of Call (1948), Eva (1948; script by Bergman), Prison (1949), To Joy (1950), Summer Interlude (1951) and Divorced (1951; script by Bergman).

Ken Olin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ken Olin: an American actor, director and producer. He first became well known for his starring role on the television series thirtysomething, but is now a prolific television producer and director.As an actor, Olin played Michael Steadman on thirtysomething (1987–1991) and Dr. Roger Cattan on L.A. Doctors (1998-1999). He was also noted for his performance as Detective Harry Garibaldi on Hill Street Blues and as the lead in the short-lived but critically praised EZ Streets. Olin has also performed in a number of television programs including Alias (as David McNeil), Falcon Crest, and Murder, She Wrote.

Antero Olin            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Antero Olin: is a Finnish visual artist, best known as a printmaker (graphic artist). He lives and works in Helsinki and also in Budapest Hungary. Italy, especially Rome has always been important working site for him.Olin's first drawing and painting teachers were prof. Unto Pusa and Urho Lauanne in Helsinki (1965–1969). He continued his studies in Lahti Finland (1967–1969), but only while studying in Stockholm (1970–71), in Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, he found, as a prinmaker, his artistcally and technically completed style of making his prints.