Orson

Orson may refer to:

United States

 * Orson, Iowa, an unincorporated community
 * Orson, Pennsylvania, a village in Preston Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

Fictional places

 * Orson, Indiana, a small fictional town in the TV series The Middle

People

 * Orson Bean (1928–2020), American film, television, and stage actor
 * Orson Flagg Bullard (1834-1906), Pennsylvania state representative
 * Orson Scott Card (1951–), author of speculative fiction
 * Orson Squire Fowler (1809–1887), phrenologist who popularized the octagon house
 * Orson Welles (1915–1985), American director, writer, actor and producer for film, stage, radio and television

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

 * Orson Pratt (1811–1881) and Orson Hyde (1805–1878), leaders in the Latter-day Saint movement and original members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles
 * Orson F. Whitney (1855–1931), politician, journalist, poet, historian and academic, and member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles
 * Orson Spencer (1802–1855), prolific writer and prominent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Orson Pratt Huish (1851–1932), Latter-day Saint hymn writer

Fictional characters

 * Orson, the hero of Valentine and Orson, a medieval romance, from which the name originates
 * Orson, a ghost who controlled his own mech suit, Toc-Man from Pac-Man World and its remake
 * Orson Hodge, a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives
 * The unseen supervisor of the alien Mork from planet Ork on the ABC situation comedy Mork & Mindy
 * Orson Pig, a fictional character on the comic strip U.S. Acres
 * Orson Pink, a character from Doctor Who
 * Orson Krennic, a character in the Star Wars franchise film Rogue One
 * Orson, the original name for Tweety Bird
 * Orson, the main antagonist of the 2022 American 3D-animated film The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.

Other

 * Orson (band), a former American rock band