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