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Olifant, Oliphant, Olyphant and similar may be:
- Archaic spelling of elephant
- Derivations from Olifardus or Olifard, name of the ancestors of Clan Oliphant
People
- Clan Oliphant, a Highland Scottish clan
- Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland
- Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), British organist and composer
- Greg Oliphant, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
- Laurence Oliphant (author) (1829–1888), British author and mystic
- Laurence Oliphant (Jacobite) (1691–1767), Scottish Jacobite army officer
- Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish novelist and historical writer
- Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), Australian physicist
- Pat Oliphant (b. 1935), Australian American editorial/political cartoonist
- Thomas Oliphant, American journalist
- Timothy Olyphant (b. 1968), American actor
In literature
- Oliphaunt or mûmak, a monstrous elephant-like creature in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Sir Olifaunt, a vicious giant in "Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas" in The Canterbury Tales
Geography
Rivers in South Africa
Places
- Olyphant, Pennsylvania
- Oliphant, Ontario
Other uses
- Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, a U.S. Supreme Court case
- Oliphant (band), Finnish band
- Olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the Middle Ages, made from elephants' tusks
- Olifant tank, South African version of the British Centurion tank
- Olifant (software), an open source software tool designed for maintaining Translation memory files
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