Oz

Oz or OZ may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Land of Oz, the setting for many of L. Frank Baum's novels

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
 * Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky, a character in the comedy film, The Whole Nine Yards and its sequel, The Whole Ten Yards.
 * Organization of the Zodiac, or Oz, an organization in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
 * Oz Vessalius, a protagonist in the manga Pandora Hearts
 * Oz, a playable character in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Exo Zombies mode
 * Wizard of Oz (character), often known simply as "Oz"
 * Oz Harmounian

Comics

 * Oz (comics), a comic book series based on The Wizard of Oz
 * Oz (Judge Dredd story), a mini-series
 * Oz, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic
 * Oz, a manga by Natsumi Itsuki

Music

 * Oz (band), a Finnish heavy metal band
 * Carmen Maki & Oz, a Japanese rock band
 * Oz (album), by Missy Higgins, 2014
 * Oz (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the HBO television series
 * FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa
 * "Oz", a song by Two Hours Traffic from their self-titled debut album

Publications

 * Oz (magazine) (1963–1973), Australia/UK underground satire magazine
 * The Oz, a nickname for the newspaper The Australian
 * OZ (radio amateur magazine), a Danish radio amateur magazine published by Experimenterende Danske Radioamatører
 * Liber OZ, the Rights of Man.
 * Ozwords (1994–2019), newsletter from the Australian National Dictionary Centre, Canberra

Other arts and entertainment

 * The Dr. Oz Show, a syndicated daytime television show
 * Oz (TV series), an HBO-produced prison drama
 * Oz (1976 film), an Australian update of The Wizard of Oz
 * OZ - Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2
 * Oz: Into the Wild, a novel featuring the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Oz

Businesses and organizations

 * OZ Group, an Italian wheel manufacturer
 * OZ Minerals, an Australian mining company
 * Circus Oz, an Australian circus group
 * The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, an independent film studio from 1914 to 1915, co-founded by L. Frank Baum
 * CHOZ-FM, a Canadian radio station based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, known as OZ FM
 * Asiana Airlines (IATA code OZ since 1988)
 * Ozark Air Lines (IATA code OZ until 1986)

People

 * Oz (surname), a list of people
 * Oz (given name), a list of people with either the given name or nickname
 * Oz (record producer), a Swiss record producer
 * Oz Fox (born 1961), stage name of Richard Alfonso Martinez, lead guitarist of the Christian glam metal band Stryper
 * Oz, ring name of Kevin Nash (born 1959), American semi-retired professional wrestler

Places

 * A nickname for Australia; see Name of Australia
 * Oz, Isère, a town and commune in France
 * Oz, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
 * Oz Park, a public park in Chicago
 * A nickname for Oswego, New York

Extraterrestrial

 * Oz Terra, a highland region on Pluto's moon Charon

Science and technology

 * Ounce, abbreviated oz., referring to several units of measure
 * Oz (programming language)
 * .oz, a former MHSnet domain
 * .oz, an OpenNIC hosted Top-level domain
 * OZ Virtual, a 3D world viewer
 * Oz: an EEG electrode site according to the 10-20 system

Other uses

 * Oz Brigade, an Israel Defense Forces commando brigade
 * Congregation Ohab Zedek, a Manhattan synagogue sometimes abbreviated OZ
 * The Opel symbol.