Oz

oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. It may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

In The Wizard of Oz

• Land of Oz, setting
• Wizard (Oz), character

See also: Category:Oz (franchise) and Portal:Oz

Film and television

• Oz (TV series), a HBO-produced prison drama
• Oz (1976 film), an Australian update of The Wizard of Oz
• Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character
• Chris Ostreicher, a character in the American Pie film series
• Organization of the Zodiac, an organization in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
• OZ, the Summer Wars metaverse

Comics

• Oz (comics), based on The Wizard of Oz
• Oz (2000 AD), a future city in Australia
  • "Oz" (Judge Dredd story)
• Oz (One Piece), a manga character
• OZ (Ultimate Marvel), a mutagen
• Oz, a manga by Natsumi Itsuki
• Oz Vessalius, a Pandora Hearts manga's protagonist

Music

• Oz (band), a Finnish heavy metal band
• -Oz-, a Japanese Visual Kei Band
• World of Oz, a British psychedelic band
• FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa

Other media

• Oz (magazine), an Australia/UK satire magazine published 1963–73
• OZ - Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2
• Liber OZ, an occultist work by Aleister Crowley
• The Oz, a nickname for the newspaper The Australian

Places

• a nickname for Australia
• Oz, Isère, a town and commune in France
• Oz Park, Chicago
• Oz Run, a trail at Beech Mountain, North Carolina, United States
• a nickname for Oswego, New York

Element (Hebrew "strength") in Israeli placenames:

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

People

Surname

• Amos Oz (born 1939), an Israeli author
• Avraham Oz (born 1944), an Israeli theatre professor
• Avraham Katz-Oz (born 1934), an Israeli politician
• David Oz Yifrah (born 1982), an Israeli football player
• Frank Oz (born 1944), a British film director, actor and puppeteer
• Kobi Oz (born 1969), an Israeli singer with The Teapacks
• Lisa Oz (born 1963), an American self-help author
• Mehmet Oz (born 1960), a Turkish-American surgeon, author and promoter of alternative medicine

Given name or nickname

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

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

Other

• Oz (programming language)
• OZ Virtual, a 3D world viewer
• OZ Minerals, an Australian mining company
• Ornstein–Zernike equation, in statistical mechanics
• Asiana Airlines (IATA code OZ)
• Congregation Ohab Zedek, a Manhattan synagogue
• Circus Oz, an Australian circus group
• .oz, a former MHSnet domain
• OZ, an abbreviation for Operating Zone

See also

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

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