Olivier

Olivier is the French spelling of the masculine name Oliver and means in French olive tree.

Name-day

July 11

Well-known bearers of the name

Name

  • Olivier Alain (1918-1994), French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer
  • Olivier Assayas ( born 1955 ), French film director and screenwriter
  • Olivier Besancenot ( b. 1974 ), French politician and postman
  • Olivier Caillas (* 1977), German - French footballer
  • Olivier de Châtillon (? -1433 ), French aristocrat
  • Olivier de Coëtivy (1418-1480), French military
  • Olivier Gendebien (1924-1998), Belgian racing driver
  • Olivier Grouillard (born 1958 ), French race car driver
  • Olivier Jacque ( b. 1973 ), French motorcycle racer
  • Olivier Latry (born 1962 ), French organist, improviser and teacher
  • Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French composer
  • Olivier Panis (born 1966 ), French Formula 1 driver
  • Olivier Rochus ( born 1981 ), Belgian tennis player
  • Olivier Roy ( born 1949 ), French political scientist and Islam expert
  • Olivier Schoenfelder ( born 1977 ), French figure skaters
  • Olivier van Ghent (ca. 1470-1512 ), painter and sculptor
  • Olivier van Noort (1558-1627), Dutch seafarer
  • Olivier Philippaerts (* 1993), a Belgian show jumper

Family name

  • Abelardo Olivier (1877-1951), Italian fencer and Olympic champion
  • Carlos Olivier (1952-2007), Venezuelan television actor and surgeon
  • Christiane Olivier ( born 1938 ), French psychoanalyst
  • Daan Olivier ( * 1992), Dutch cyclist
  • Eugène Olivier (1881-1964), French fencer and Olympic champion
  • Ferdinand Johann von Olivier (1785-1841), German painter
  • Fernande Olivier (1881-1966), the first partner and muse of Pablo Picasso in the years 1905-1912
  • Franck Olivier, a Belgian pop singer
  • Françoise Olivier - Coupeau (1959-2011), French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS )
  • Friedrich Olivier (1791-1859), German painter
  • Géraldine Olivier ( born 1967), Swiss pop singer
  • Guillaume- Antoine Olivier (1756-1814), French physician, zoologist and botanist
  • Heinrich Olivier (1783-1848), German painter
  • Henri Jacques François Olivier (1849-1923), French mushroom watchers
  • Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861-1952), English portrait and landscape painter
  • Jean -Baptiste Olivier (1765-1813), French cavalry general
  • Jean -Claude Olivier (1945-2013), a French motorcycle racer and motor sports official
  • Jean -Jacques Olivier (1877-1954), French writer
  • Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), English actor
  • Leonard James Olivier ( b. 1923 ), American clergyman, retired Auxiliary Bishop of Washington
  • Ludwig Heinrich Ferdinand Olivier, also Louis Ferdinand Olivier, Ferdinand Olivier the Elder (1759-1815), German educator of Swiss origin
  • Philip Olivier ( born 1980 ), British actor
  • Richard Olivier ( b. 1961 ), English film director, screenwriter and actor
  • Thomas Olivier or Oliver of Cologne ( about 1170-1227 ), Bishop of Paderborn and Cardinal
  • Yves Olivier ( b. 1974 ), Belgian racing driver

Variants

  • In short: Oli, Olli
  • Female: Olivia, Olivera, Olive
  • German: Oliver
  • Swiss German: OLAE, Ölu
  • English: Oliver
  • Italian: Oliviero
  • Portuguese: Oliveira
  • French: Olivier

Others

  • Oliviersalat, one named after the chef Lucien Olivier specialty
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