Ozzie

Ozzie or Ozzy is a masculine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Oswald, Oscar, Osborne, Osman and Ozymandias and other names, surname and nickname which may refer to:

Animals

 * Ozzie (gorilla) (born c. 1961)

People

 * Chris Osgood (born 1972), National Hockey League goaltender for the Detroit Red Wings
 * Ray Ozzie (born 1955), former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
 * Ozzie Albies (born 1997), Major League Baseball player
 * Ozzie Cadena (1924–2008), American record producer
 * Ozzie Canseco (born 1964), Cuban-born former baseball player, brother of José Canseco
 * Osborne Colson (1916–2006), Canadian figure skater and coach
 * Osborne Cowles (1899-1997), American college basketball and football player and coach
 * Ozzie Guillén (born 1964), Venezuelan former Major League Baseball player and manager
 * Ozzy Lusth (born 1981), Survivor reality TV show contestant
 * Ozzie Myers (born 1943), American politician convicted for his part in the Abscam scandal
 * Ozzie Nelson (1901-1975), American band leader, actor, director, and producer, best known for playing the father in the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
 * Ozzie Newsome, American former National Football League player and current general manager of the Baltimore Ravens, member of the Hall of Fame
 * Ozzie Osborn (born 1946), American former Major League Baseball pitcher in 1975
 * Ozzy Osbourne (born 1948), English lead singer for heavy metal band Black Sabbath, songwriter and star of the reality TV show ''The Osbournes'
 * Ozzie Silna (1932-2016), American businessman and basketball franchise co-owner
 * Ozzie Simmons (1914-2001), African-American college football player
 * Ozzie Smith (born 1954), American retired Major League Baseball player and member of the Hall of Fame
 * Ozzie Sweet (1918-2013), American sports photographer born Oscar Cowan Corbo
 * Ozzie Timmons (born 1970), American former Major League Baseball player
 * Ozzie Virgil, Sr. (born 1932), former Major League Baseball utility player from the Dominican Republic
 * Ozzie Virgil, Jr. (born 1956), former Major League Baseball All-Star catcher from Puerto Rico

Fictional characters

 * Ozzie Altobello, main villain in the film The Godfather Part III, played by Eli Wallach
 * Ozzie Mandrill, villain in computer adventure game Escape from Monkey Island
 * Ozzie, Slash, and Flea, villains who serve Magus in the role-playing game Chrono Trigger
 * Ozzie Fernandez Isaacs, creator of the wormholes technology and the gaïa field in the Commonwealth universe of Peter F Hamilton
 * "My Ozzie," bachelor owner of Earl, the Jack Russell terrier in Mutts, the comic strip
 * Ozzie Graham, reporter who joins the StarCrossed group in the TV series People of Earth.
 * Ozzy Delvecchio, character played by John Leguizamo in Bloodline (TV series).
 * Ozzie Paxton, a computer-engineering prodigy, played by Vincent Kartheiser in Masterminds (1997 film).
 * Ozzy the Eagle, mascot for Ozarks Technical Community College.
 * Ozzie, a resistance fighter for Earth played by Travis MacDonald, on the second season episode of the Andromeda TV series named Bunker Hill.