Oz

oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. Oz or OZ may also refer to:

Places

• Oz, Isère, a town and commune in France
• Oz, Kentucky
• Oz Park, Chicago
• A nickname for Australia
• A nickname for Oswego, New York

Element (Hebrew "strength" - עוז פרל) in Israeli placenames:

• Givat Oz
• Migdal Oz
• Nahal Oz
• Nir Oz
• Nitzanei Oz

People

• Oz (surname)

Given name or nickname

• Oz Almog (born 1956), Israeli–Austrian artist
• Oz Bengur (born 1949), Maryland Democrat
• Oz Clarke (born 1949), British wine writer
• Oz Fox (born 1961), rock musician with Stryper
• Oz Griebel (born 1949), Connecticut businessman and Republican
• Oz Perkins (born 1974), American actor
• Oz Scott (born 1949), American screenwriter
• O. Z. Whitehead (1911–1998), character actor
• Oz, ring name of Kevin Nash,American professional wrestler
• Oz, pseudonym of German graffiti artist de (died 2014)

See also: Ossie (disambiguation), Ozzie (disambiguation), Osborn (disambiguation), Osborne (disambiguation), Osbourne (disambiguation), Oscar (given name), Osgood (surname), and Oswald (disambiguation)

Arts, media, and entertainment

The Oz franchise by L. Frank Baum

• Land of Oz, setting
• The Wizard of Oz (disambiguation)
• Wizard of Oz (character), a character
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (disambiguation)

Further information: Category:Oz (franchise) and Portal:Oz

Fictional characters and entities

• Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character from the TV series
• Oz (One Piece), a manga character
• OZ (Ultimate Marvel), a mutagen
• OZ, a virtual world, virtual reality in the movie, Summer Wars
• Leonard "Oz" Osbourne, a Geordie bricklayer in British TV series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, played by Jimmy Nail
• Chris Ostreicher, a character in the American Pie film series
• Organization of the Zodiac, or Oz, an organization in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
• Oz Vessalius, a Pandora Hearts manga's protagonist

Comics

• Oz (2000 AD), a future city in Australia
• Oz (comics), based on The Wizard of Oz
• Oz (Judge Dredd story), a mini-series
• Oz, a manga by Natsumi Itsuki

Film

• Oz (1976 film), an Australian update of The Wizard of Oz
• Oz the Great and Powerful, a 2013 film

Games

• OZ - Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2

Music

Artists

• Oz (Finnish band), a Finnish heavy metal band
• Oz (Japanese band), a Japanese rock band
• OZ, a Swedish and Turkish record producer
• World of Oz, a British psychedelic band

Albums

• Oz (Missy Higgins album), a 2014 album by Missy Higgins
• FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa

Print media

• Oz (magazine), an Australia/UK satire magazine published 1963–73
• Liber OZ, a spiritual text by Aleister Crowley, described as "the Thelemic declaration of rights of Man, in five sections comprised of one syllable words"
• The Oz, a nickname for the newspaper The Australian

Television

• Oz (TV series), an HBO-produced prison drama

Businesses and organizations

• OZ Group, an Italian wheel manufacturer
• OZ Minerals, an Australian mining company
• Circus Oz, an Australian circus group
• Congregation Ohab Zedek, a Manhattan synagogue

Computing and technology

• Oz (programming language)
• .oz, a former MHSnet domain
• .oz, an OpenNIC hosted Top-level domain

Other

• Oz Academy, women's professional wrestling promotion
• OZ Virtual, a 3D world viewer
• Ornstein–Zernike equation, in statistical mechanics
• OZ, the IATA code for Asiana Airlines

See also

• O2 (disambiguation)
• OS (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Oz"
• All pages with titles containing Oz