Olin
Olin is both a surname and a masculine given name.
There are various meanings of the given name:
Middle English origin: From the word holly, the evergreen shrub or tree; (Middle English holi(n), Old English holegn).
Old Norse origin: diminutive form of the name Olaf and Ole (name) meaning "ancestor's heir" or "family's descendant"
Swedish: "to inherit"
Possible variation of the name "Olen", Russian for deer.
People
- Abram B. Olin, U.S. Representative from New York
- Bob Olin, American boxer
- Dave Olin, Democratic Farmer Labor Party, Minnesota House of Representatives
- Elisabeth Olin, Swedish opera singer
- Franklin W. Olin, founder of Olin Corporation
- Gideon Olin, U.S. representative from Vermont
- Henry Olin, U.S. Representative from Vermont
- Jim Olin, U.S. Representative from Virginia
- Johan Olin, Finnish Olympic wrestler
- John Olin, American professional wrestler
- John M. Olin, Chairman of Olin Corporation
- Ken Olin, actor, director and producer
- Laurie Olin, landscape architect
- Lena Olin, Swedish actress
- Margareth Olin, Norwegian film director and producer
- Nahum Olin, Mexican race car driver and team owner
- Nelly Olin, French Minister of Environment
- Spencer Truman Olin, American industrialist and philanthropist
- Steve Olin, Major League Baseball player
- Stig Olin, Swedish actor, singer, songwriter, director
- Thomas F. Olin, Chairman of Archway Cookies, Incorporated
- William M. Olin, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
Organizations
- Olin Corporation, a chemical corporation with a history of producing chemicals and ammunition
- F. W. Olin Foundation, a foundation endowed by Franklin W. Olin
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, an undergraduate engineering college in Massachusetts
- John M. Olin Foundation, a foundation endowed by John M. Olin
- Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
- OLIN, American landscape architecture firm
Places
- Olin, Iowa, a small city in the United States
- Olin, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Olin, Poland
Other uses
- Olin (name)
- Olin, a fictional character on the TV series General Hospital
- Olin Raschig process, an industrial process for manufacturing hydrazine
- Olin (spider), a spider genus in the family Trochanteriidae
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