oliver | (n) United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938), Syn. Joseph Oliver, King Oliver |
cromwell | (n) English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658), Syn. Oliver Cromwell, Ironsides |
ellsworth | (n) United States jurist and the third chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1807), Syn. Oliver Ellsworth |
goldsmith | (n) Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774), Syn. Oliver Goldsmith |
hardy | (n) United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957), Syn. Oliver Hardy |
heaviside | (n) English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925), Syn. Oliver Heaviside |
holmes | (n) United States jurist noted for his liberal opinions (1841-1935), Syn. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
holmes | (n) United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894), Syn. Oliver Wendell Holmes |
lodge | (n) English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940), Syn. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge |
perry | (n) United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819), Syn. Commodore Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry |
selznick | (n) United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965), Syn. David O. Selznick, David Oliver Selznick |
stone | (n) United States filmmaker (born in 1946), Syn. Oliver Stone |