Famous People with Name Olivier

Olivier D.A.Gh. Maingain            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Olivier D.A.Gh. Maingain: a Belgian francophone politician. After graduating as Master of Laws he qualified as a lawyer in 1982. In 1983 he became president of the FDF Youth. He was elected as a city councillor of Brussels in 1988. He entered the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital

Olivier Assayas            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Olivier Assayas: is a French film director and screenwriter.While working at Cahiers du cinéma, Assayas wrote lovingly about European film directors he admires but also about Asian directors. One of his latest films is a documentary about Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsi

Olivier D'Athos De La Fère            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Olivier D'Athos De La Fère: is a fictional character, a Musketeer of the Guard in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.In The Three Musketeers, he and the other two musketeers Porthos and Aramis are friends of th

Olivier Jacque            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Olivier Jacque: is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.He was second in the European 250 cc Championship in 1994, before moving on to the 250 cc World Championship. He achieved a top ten finish in the points standings every year he competed. In 2000 he had a season

Olivier Djappa            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Olivier Djappa: is a Cameroonian football player. As of February 2009, he plays for SV 1910 Neuhof.

Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron Olivier            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron Olivier: was an English actor, director, and producer and the recipient of scores of awards. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson. Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier: was an English actor, director, and producer and the recipient of scores of awards. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson.[1] Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is generally regarded to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries.[2] Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet,

Guillaume-Antoine Olivier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Guillaume-Antoine Olivier: was a French entomologist.He was the author of Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes (1808) and Le Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse (1807). He was a close friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a patron of Pierre André Latreille.

Brigitte Olivier            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Brigitte Olivier: is a Belgian judoka.

Sidney Olivier            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Sidney Olivier: was an English cricketer. He was a wicket-keeper who played for Hampshire. Olivier played in just one match for the team, during the 1895 season.