Oliphant
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Olifant, Oliphant, Olyphant and similar variations may refer to:
People
- Oliphant (surname) list of notable people with this name
- Clan Oliphant, a Highland Scottish clan
- Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), British organist and composer
In literature
- Oliphaunt or mûmak, a monstrous elephant-like creature in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Sir Olifaunt, a vicious giant in "Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas" in The Canterbury Tales
- The horn sounded to alert Charlemagne in "The Song of Roland"
Geography
- Olyphant, Pennsylvania, a borough
- Oliphant, Ontario, Canada, a community
- Olifants River (Western Cape), South Africa
- Olifants River (Southern Cape), South Africa
- Olifants River (Limpopo), South Africa
- Olifants Water Management Area, South Africa
- Oliphant Islands, South Orkney Islands
Other uses
- Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland
- Oliphant baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
- Oliphant (band), Finnish band
- Olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the Middle Ages, made from elephants' tusks
- Olifant tank, a South African version of the British Centurion tank
- De Olifant, Burdaard, windmill in the Netherlands
- D'Oliphant, a Dutch mansion originally built near Nieuwesluis, later moved to Rotterdam
- Oliphant (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of monster in the fantasy role-playing game
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