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Names in the News Browse:
131 Name(s) Begining with "O" - Name: O'BARECK, Sghair, Ould
- Title: Prime Minister, Mauritania
- Name: O'BRIAN, Miles,
- Title: TV anchor CNN morning news show
- Name: O'CONNOR, Sandra, Day
- Title: USA Supreme Court Associate Justice 1981-2005; nominated by President Ronald REAGAN; first woman nominated to Supreme Court; replaced Potter STEWART
- Name: O'CONNOR, Carroll,
- Title: actor "All In The Family" "Archie Bunker*s Place" "Heat of the Night"
- Name: O'CONNOR, Jennifer,
- Title: Clinton Administration official who testified in court about various issues and claimed she didn't remember 343 times
- Name: O'DONNELL, Sean,
- Title: animal behaviorist postulates new theory on the origin of cooperative hunting behavior in army ants (Cheliomyrmex andicola); among most socially complex animals known; suggests the aunt's “cooperative hunting of large prey is an evolutionary predecessor of going after smaller prey"
- Name: O'HAIR, Madalyn, Murray
- Title: founder American Atheists
- Name: O'KEEFE, Sean,
- Title: Former chief administrator, NASA, USA
- Name: O'MALLEY, Sean,
- Title: Catholic Archbishop, Boston Archdiocese
- Name: O'REILLY, Bill,
- Title: TV talk shot host, files counter suit in sexual harassment case
- Name: O'SULLIVAN, Timothy,
- Title: Accused in connection to the murder of 10-year-old Kati Collman who witnessed his production of Methamphetamine
- Name: O*BEIRNE, Kate,
- Title: American author/columnist/TV commentator; "Women Who Make the World Worse"; "National Review" contributor
- Name: O*BRIAN, Hugh,
- Title: actor Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" "Twins" (aka:Hugh Krampe)
- Name: O*BRIEN, Davey,
- Title: led the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs to the 1938 national championship: quarterback award named after him; first player to win Heisman/ Walter Camp/ Maxwell Awards in same year
- Name: O*BRIEN, Tyler,
- Title: biological anthropology professor at the University of Northern Iowa; establishing America*s second “body farm” where human bodies decay in various situations to aid in criminal investigations; O*BRIEN*S mentor: William BASS III
- Name: O*CONNELL, Jerry,
- Title: American TV/film actor "Stand by Me" "Jerry Maguire" "Tomcats" "Mission to Mars" "Crossing Jordan"
- Name: O*CONNOR, John, Joseph
- Title: Roman Catholic priest
- Name: O*CONNOR, Paul,
- Title: Sun Microsystems Australia announced Google and US-based technology giant Sun Microsystems to allow web users to access Sun*s OpenOffice from any personal computer; competes with Microsoft Word
- Name: O*DOWD, George "Boy George", Alan
- Title: singer "Culture Club" "Do YouReally Want to Hurt Me" "Carma Chameleon"
- Name: O*HANLON, Michael,
- Title: national security analyst Brookings Institution; advises Democrats on defense issues; warned Democrats the efforts by liberal US Senators to block parts of the USA PATRIOT Act further weakens party*s credibility on national security
- Name: O*HARA, Maureen,
- Title: actress "Miracle on 34the Street" "The Quiet Man" "Only the Lonely"
- Name: O*HURLEY, John,
- Title: actor "Seinfeld"
- Name: O*NEILL, John,
- Title: editor/publisher; founder editor “Black Gate” magazine; founded New Epoch Press
- Name: O*NEILL, John, Ellis
- Title: attorney; debated John KERRY on Dick CAVETT TV Show 1971 on Viet Nam War; founder Swift Boat Veterans for Truth; author
- Name: O*NEILL, John,
- Title: muscian; whistled theme in movie “The Good The Bad and The Ugly”; singer: “Monty Python*s Flying Circus”
- Name: O*NEILL JR., Thomas "Tip", Phillip
- Title: USA Rep. D-MA; Speaker of the House;Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Name: O*REILLY, David, J.
- Title: COB Chevron-Texaco Corp. San Francisco
- Name: O*REILLY, Michael,
- Title: mayor Herndon-VA; voted to establish a formal center for day laborers; many of whom are illegal aliens; city being sued by Judicial Watch D.C.-based nonprofit public interest law firm
- Name: O*REILLY, Dave,
- Title: COB/ CEO Chevron
- Name: O*STEEN, David, N.
- Title: executive director National Right to Life Committee
- Name: O*SULLIVAN, Maureen,
- Title: actress "Only the Lonely"
- Name: O*TOOLE, Peter,
- Title: actor "Lawrence of Arabia"
- Name: O*TOOLE, Patricia,
- Title: American author "When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House"
- Name: OATES, Joyce, Carol
- Title: "Bellefluer" "You Must Remember This" "Because It isd Bitter"; Pen/Malamud Award for lifetime of literary of achievement
- Name: OBAMA, Barack,
- Title: USA Senator, IL, Democrat
- Name: OBAMA, Barack, Hussein
- Title: USA Senator D-Illinois; candidate for Democrat nomination for president for 2008; fifth African-American Senator in U.S. history; born in Honolulu-Hawaii to Barack OBAMA Sr. (born: Nyanza Province - Kenya) and Ann DUNHAM (born: Wichita-Kansas); describes his multiracial heritage (father: “black”; mother: white) in 1995 Memoir “Dreams from My Father”; B.A. degree 1983 Columbia University in political science; Law degree Harvard University; graduated magna cum laude 1991; Harvard Law Review*s "first black president in its 104-year history"
- Name: OBAMA, Barack, Hussein
- Title: USA Senator D-Illinois; candidate for Democrat nomination for president for 2008; fifth African-American Senator in U.S. history; born in Honolulu-Hawaii to Barack OBAMA Sr. (born: Nyanza Province - Kenya) and Ann DUNHAM (born: Wichita-Kansas); describes his multiracial heritage (father: “black”; mother: white) in 1995 Memoir “Dreams from My Father”; B.A. degree 1983 Columbia University in political science; Law degree Harvard University; graduated magna cum laude 1991; Harvard Law Review*s "first black president in its 104-year history"
- Name: OBASANJO, Olusegun,
- Title: President, Nigeria
- Name: OBEIDI, Mohammed, Hila Hammad
- Title: leader Secret Islamic Army in Babil province with ties to al-Qaeda; captured by Iraqi forces; prime suspect kidnapping of Italian journalist Giuliana SGRENA; also alleged to be responsible for assassination attempts against Iraqi officials (aka: Abu AYMAN)
- Name: OBERING, Henry "Trey",
- Title: USA Air Force Lt. Gen. director Missile Defense Agency (MDA); department developing Pentagon Airborne Laser system
- Name: OBERSTAR, James, L.
- Title: USA Congressman, MN, D-Dist. 08
- Name: OBEY, David, R.
- Title: USA Congressman, WI-D, Dist. 07
- Name: OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, Teodoro,
- Title: President Equatorial Guinea
- Name: OBRADOR, Andres, Manuel López
- Title: presidential candidate Mexico Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD); lost to Felipe CALDERÓN National Action Party
- Name: ODDONE, Piermaria,
- Title: Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Name: ODDSSON, David,
- Title: Prime Minister, Iceland
- Name: ODEH, Abdulraham,
- Title: Muslim member of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Texas chapter; accused in plot to fund Palestinian terrorist group Hamas; CAIR calls itself mainstream promoter of civil rights but has been named with two other U.S. Islamic groups as "unindicted co-conspirators" Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust; other individuals accused in case: Mohammad EL-MEZAIN; Mufid ABDULQADER; Shukri ABU-BAKER
- Name: ODELL, Van,
- Title: Member, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
- Name: ODIERNO, Raymond,
- Title: Lt. Gen. Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff USA Military
- Name: ODUBER, Nelson, O.
- Title: Prime Minister Aruba
- Name: OEFELEIN, William,
- Title: US Navy Commander/NASA astronaut; object of fellow astronaut Lisa Marie NOWAK*s affections; NOWAK was fired from NASA and charged with trying to kidnap Colleen SHIPMAN whom NOWAK allegedly believed was a romantic rival for the affection of fellow space shuttle astronaut William OEFELEIN
- Name: OELRICH, Ivan,
- Title: U.S.physicist Energy Department Oak Ridge-Tennessee and member Federation of American Scientists; told Associated Press Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein had 1.95 tons of low-enriched uranium; enough to produce at least one nuclear bomb; Saddam stockpiled 500-ton un-enriched uranium
- Name: of beaver-like animal that lived at the time of dinosaurs indicating ecological role of mammals in the time of dinosaurs was far greater than previously thought; discovered remains in the Inner Mongolia; Matthew CARRANO: curator of dinosaurs at the Smiths, ,
- Title:
- Name: OGI, Chikage,
- Title: first female Japanese Speaker of Upper House
- Name: OKUDA, Hiroshi,
- Title: CEO Toyota
- Name: OLAJUWON, Hakeem,
- Title: NBA basketball player who funded a mosque that is alleged to have given $80K to al-Qaeda & Hamas
- Name: OLDER, Charles,
- Title: judge Hall of Justice in Los Angeles-CA; presiding judge Charles MANSON trial in Tate-LaBianca murders
- Name: OLESKER, Michael,
- Title: columnist “The Baltimore Sun” resigned amid allegations of plagiarism from other newspapers
- Name: OLIN, John, Merrill
- Title: businessman in chemical and munitions manufacturing; founded John M. Olin Foundation; funded law and economics movement applying incentive-based thinking and cost-benefit analysis to legal theory; William E. Simon was president of Foundation 1977-2000; foundation has shut down
- Name: OLIPHANT, Pat,
- Title: Political cartoonist accused of racial stereotyping, Condoleezza Rice, Sec. of State USA
- Name: OLIPHANT, “Sir” Marcus “Mark”, Laurence Elwin
- Title: Australian physicist and humanitarian; discovered helium 3 and tritium and was first to discover heavy hydrogen nuclei could be made to interact; protege of New Zealand physicist Ernest RUTHERFORD; his discoveries used as basis of a hydrogen bomb by Edward TELLER
- Name: OLIVIER, Laurence,
- Title: actor Shakespearean Actor "Boys of Brazil"
- Name: OLLILA, Jorma,
- Title: CEO Nokia; world*s leading mobile phone maker
- Name: OLMERT, Ehud,
- Title: deputy prime minister Israel; assumed reigns of power in Israel upon the incapacitation of Prime Minister Ariel SHARON who suffered stroke
- Name: OLSEN, Johnny,
- Title: TV announcer "The Jackie Gleason Show" "The Price if Right"
- Name: OLSEN, Susan,
- Title: actress "The Brady Bunch"
- Name: OLSEN, Gregory,
- Title: technology entrepreneur; founder CEO Sensors Unlimited Inc; scheduled to be space tourist on Russian Soyuz TMA-7 crew
- Name: OLSEN, Timmy, Brent
- Title: 28-yoa Spanish Fork-Utah man - has been charged in her disappearance and alleged murder of Spanish Fork teenager Kiplyn DAVIS in 1995; also involved in case: Scott BRUNSON; David Rucker LEIFSON; Scott BRUNSON; Christopher JEPPSON; Garry BLACKMORE all of Spanish Fork-Utah and former high school classmates of OLSEN; BRUNSON and BLACKMORE accepted pleas and agreed to testify at murder trial of Timmy Brent OLSEN charged in disappearance and alleged murder of Spanish Fork teenager Kiplyn DAVIS in 1995; Judge Magistrate Samuel ALBA Salt Lake City-Utah
- Name: OLSEN, Eric,
- Title: 28-yoa BAKERSFIELD - substitute teacher in local elementary school districts as well as the Kern High School Districts; Ontario may have molested as many as 30 children in Kern County-California
- Name: OLSEN, Eric,
- Title: 28-yoa BAKERSFIELD - substitute teacher in local elementary school districts as well as the Kern High School Districts; Ontario may have molested as many as 30 children in Kern County-California
- Name: OLSON, Theodore,
- Title: former USA Solicitor General; appointed by President George W. BUSH (43); investigated by Independent Counsel Alexia MORRISON; Assistant Attorney General in the Pres. Ronald REAGAN administration; represented BUSH (43) in the case BUSH v. GORE in contested 2000 Presidential election
- Name: OLSON, Sarah,
- Title: radio producer/freelance journalist Oakland-California reporter listed as potential witnesses in the government case against US Army 1st Lt. Ehren WATADA accused of disobeying an order to go to Iraq
- Name: OLVER, John, W.
- Title: USA Congressman, MA, Democrat, District 01
- Name: OMAR, Mohammed,
- Title: Taliban Mullah, Aghanistan
- Name: OMAR, Yasin, Hassan
- Title: suspect in the failed July 21-005 London subway bombing arrested; bombs failed and no one was injured; second suspect Muktar Said IBRAIHIM
- Name: OMOKUNDE, Sowande,
- Title: Democrat operative charged with felony property damage carrying maximum sentence of 3 ½ years in prison and $10K fine; son of Rep. Gwen MOORE Democrat-Wisconsin; accused of flattening tires on 25 Republican Party vehicles rented to get out the vote for KERRY-BUSH Presidential campaign November-2004; attempted to stop Republicans from voting; four other Democrat activists also charged: Michael PRATT- son of former Milwaukee acting mayor Marvin PRATT; Lewis CALDWELL; Justin HOWELL; Lavelle MOHAMMAD
- Name: OMOKUNDE, Sowande, A.
- Title: Milwaukee Democrat operative sentenced to 4 to 6 months in jail for slashing tires of vehicles used by Bush-Cheney campaign office on Election Day 2004; fined $1-thousand plus $5-thousand in restitution; Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael BRENNAN rejected prosecutors* probation recommendation; son of U.S. Rep. Gwen MOORE D-Wisconsin; also sentenced: Lavelle MOHAMMAD; Caldwell LEWIS; Michael PRATT all Democrat party operatives
- Name: ONASSIS, Jacqueline, Lee Bouvier Kennedy
- Title: USA First Lady Wife of John F. KENNEDY
- Name: ONDEKANE, Jean, Pierre
- Title: rebel commander Major-General Republic of Congo/Defence Minister that the UN would be remembered for sex with children and “running after little girls”
- Name: ONO, Yoko,
- Title: wife of assassinated “Beatles” member John Lennon
- Name: ONOFRI, Tommaso,
- Title: 17-month-old Italian child murdered by kidnappers who took him March 2006; they killed him for “crying too much”; boy suffered from epilepsy and needed medication; Mario ALESSI - one of three persons arrested in the case; demand of Italians growing for death penalty for the kidnappers
- Name: OPINION, Virgil,
- Title: indicted on fraud and conspiracy; allegedly diluted AIDS/HIV medication and taking $1.2 million from insurance companies; office assistant to Newport Beach Dr. George Steven KOOSHIAN accused in same case
- Name: OPPENHEIMER, J., Robert
- Title: American physicist of German-Jewish origin; scientific director Manhattan Project to develop first nuclear weapons at Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico during WWII; dubbed "the father of the atomic bomb"; appointed director first Atomic Energy Commission; given Enrico Fermi Award honoring scientists of international stature for lifetime achievement in development - use or production of energy; other theoretical physicists Hans BETHE and Edward TELLER worked on the bomb
- Name: OPPENHEIMER, Michael,
- Title: professor geosciences and international affairs-Princeton University; published peer-reviewed papers advocating concept of man-caused global warming
- Name: OQILOV, Oqil,
- Title: Prime Minister, Tajikistan
- Name: ORBISON, Roy,
- Title: singer/songwriter "Only the Lonely" "Crying" "Pretty Woman"
- Name: ORLANDO-CASSIVITIS, Michael, Anthony "Tony"
- Title: singer "Knock Three Times" "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" "He Don*t Love You"
- Name: ORR, Bobby,
- Title: hocky player NHL-Hall of Fame
- Name: ORTEGA, Daniel,
- Title: Communist Sandinista leader Nicaragua candidate for president; ousted Anastasio SOMOZA-DEBAYLE Nicaraguan civil war; Cold War partner of the Soviet Union against the United States
- Name: ORTEGA-Saavedra, Daniel,
- Title: President Nicaraguan Sandanista leader
- Name: ORTEGA-SAAVEDRA, Daniel, Nicaraguan
- Title: guerilla; director Sandanista Libertion Front; communist front group
- Name: ORTIZ, Solomon, P.
- Title: USA Congressman, TX-D, Dist. 27
- Name: ORTIZ, Oscar, Antonio
- Title: arrested Border Patrol agent Thursday in Escondido suspected of being an illegal immigrant; allegedly submitted doctored birth certificate for employment; Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle JENNINGS in charge of case
- Name: ORTIZ JR., Milton,
- Title: Sgt. accused of conspiracy in connection with killing an Iraqi civilian; after investigation charges dismissed; also charged: Nathan B LYNN Spc. US Army - accused of killing an Iraqi civilian; all charges against LYNN dismissed
- Name: ORTIZ JR., Milton,
- Title: Sgt. accused of conspiracy in connection with killing an Iraqi civilian; after investigation charges dismissed; also charged: Nathan B LYNN Spc. US Army - accused of killing an Iraqi civilian; all charges against LYNN dismissed
- Name: Osama BIN LADEN; said to be responsible for plotting cross-border attacks from Pakistan; led an effort to assassinate Pakistan president - Gen. Pervez MUSHARRAF; born: Mosul - Iraq -1961
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- Name: Osama BIN LADEN; said to be responsible for plotting cross-border attacks from Pakistan; led an effort to assassinate Pakistan president - Gen. Pervez MUSHARRAF; born: Mosul - Iraq -1961
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- Name: OSBORNE, Tom,
- Title: USA Congressman, NE, R-Dist. 03
- Name: OSHIRO, Marcus, R.
- Title: state representative 39th District Hawaii; pressured Hawaii representatives to imposes gas price controls; controls backfire raising fuel costs faster under new controls; February 2006
- Name: OSMANAGIC, Semir,
- Title: Bosnian/American archaeologist may have discovered pyramid hidden in hill near Visoko--Bosnia-Herzegovina; would be first pyramid know in Europe
- Name: OSMANI, Akhtar, Mohammed
- Title: Taliban southern military commander; associate Osama BIN LADEN; heir to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar; killed by U.S. air strike in southern province of Helman - Afghanistan near Pakistan border December 2006; instrumental in destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Bamiyan
- Name: OSMOND, Alan,
- Title: singer/songwriter "Osmonds" "The Andy Williams Show" "Down by the Lazy River"
- Name: OSMOND, Donald "Donny", Clark
- Title: singer/TV host; The Donny and Marie" Show" "Go Away Little Girl" "Puppy Love" "I*m Leaving It All Up to You"
- Name: OSMOND, Jay,
- Title: singer/drummer Osmonds "The Andy Williams Show"
- Name: OSMOND, Jimmy,
- Title: singer "The Osmonds"
- Name: OSMOND, Ken,
- Title: actor "Leave It To Beaver"
- Name: OSMOND, Olive, Marie
- Title: singer/TV host "The Donny and Marie Show" "Paper Roses "I*m Leaving It All Up To You" "Read My Lips"
- Name: OSMOND, Merrill,
- Title: singer Osmonds "The Andy Williams Show"
- Name: OSMOND, Wayne,
- Title: singer "The Osmonds "The Andy Williams Show"
- Name: OSSANLOO, Mansour,
- Title: president Sherkat-e Vahed - Union of Workers of the United Bus Company of Tehran-Iran; jailed when his bus drivers union threatened to strike over wages; Iranian police shaved a layer of his tongue off demanding he quit promoting a strike
- Name: OSTHOFF, Susanne,
- Title: German woman taken hostage in Iraq; freed by terrorist kidnappers; announced by Germany*s foreign minister Frank-Walter STEINMEIER
- Name: OSWALD, Lee, Harvey
- Title: assassin of John Fitzgerald KENNEDY in Dallas November 22 1963; was assassinated by Jack Ruby a Dallas TX bar ownerJack RUBY
- Name: OTEGI, Arnaldo,
- Title: Leader, Batasuna, Basque separatist group
- Name: OTELLINI, Paul,
- Title: president/COO Intel
- Name: OTTER, C. (Butch), L.
- Title: USA Congressman ID, Republican, District 01
- Name: OTTON, Solis,
- Title: president candidate Costa Rica of Citizens Action Party
- Name: OVERBEEKE, H., David
- Title: Executive Vice President/Chief Information Officer - NBC Universal
- Name: OVITZ, Michael,
- Title: Former president, Walt Disney, Inc.
- Name: OWEN, Pricilla,
- Title: Judge nominated by BUSH (43) fought by Democrats who threaten a filibuster. Confirmed a federal appeals court judge
- Name: OWENS, William, F.
- Title: Governor, R-Colorado; took office 1998
- Name: OWENS, Major, R.
- Title: USA Congressman, NY, D-Dist. 11
- Name: OWENS, Alvis "Buck", Edgar
- Title: singer/TV host "Hee Haw"; Country Music Hall of Fame
- Name: OWENS, Gary,
- Title: announcer/radio personality "Rowan & Martin*s Laugh-In"
- Name: OWENS, James, Cleveland Jesse
- Title: track athlete 4-time Olympic Gold Medalist; Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Name: OWENS, Bill,
- Title: president CEO Nortel
- Name: OWENS, Terrell,
- Title: football player/wide receiver; temporarily suspended by Eagles coach Andy Reid for contentious behavior to team*s offensive coordinator
- Name: OWENS, Terrell,
- Title: NFL football receiver; apologized to coach Andy REID - quarterback Donovan MC NABB - team owner president and fans; suspended from playing by Coach Andy REID; agent Drew ROSENHAUS said OWENS* made apology hoping to return to Eagles after suspension; OWENS insulted MC NABB - Eagle*s team and organization and fans
- Name: OWENS, Lamar,
- Title: Midshipman Naval Academy Annapolis-Md; quarterback of Navy 2005 football squad; charged with raping a female midshipman in her dormitory room; 22-yoa senior from Savannah-GA
- Name: OXENBERG, Christina,
- Title: Novelist; Launches Clothing Line at Bloomingdale stores; sister of actress Catherine OXENBERG known for role on TV*s "Dynasty”
- Name: OXLEY, Michael, G.
- Title: USA Congressman, OH-R, Dist. 04
- Name: OZ, Frank,
- Title: Puppetteer characters "Bert" "Grover" "Cookie Monster" "Miss Piggy" "Fozzie Bear" "Yoda" "Sesame Street" "The Empire Strikes Back"
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