Oz Explained

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 s Exo Zombies mode
• Wizard of Oz (character), often known simply as "Oz"

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
• , 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
• , 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.

See also

• Ornstein–Zernike equation, in statistical mechanics
• O2 (disambiguation)
• OS (disambiguation)