| Frank William John Olver | |
| Birth Date: | December 15, 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Croydon, UK |
| Death Place: | Rockville, Maryland, US |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Mathematics |
| Work Institution: | University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Alma Mater: | University of London |
| Known For: | editor in chief of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions |
Frank William John Olver (December 15, 1924 – April 23, 2013) was a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland who worked on asymptotic analysis, special functions, and numerical analysis. He was the editor in chief of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.
1969• Silver Medal of the US Department of Commerce.
1974• A Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
1996• A Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
2011• Gold Medal of the US Department of Commerce.
Visiting Fellow, or Professor, at the University of Lancaster, U.K., Imperial College, London University, U.K.,Cambridge University, U.K., the Royal Irish Academy, and the Australian National University