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oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. Oz or OZ may also refer to:
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
Arts and entertainment
- Land of Oz, the setting for 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
- 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
Comics
- Oz (comics), a comic book series based on The Wizard of Oz
- Oz (Judge Dredd story), a mini-series
- Oz (Buffy comic)
- Oz (2000 AD), a future city in Australia
- Oz, a manga by Natsumi Itsuki
Music
- Oz (Finnish band), a heavy metal band
- Oz (Japanese band), a rock band
- Oz (Missy Higgins album), a 2014 album
- FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa
- Oz (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the HBO television series
Other
- 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
Publications
- Oz (magazine), an Australia/UK underground satire magazine published from 1963 to 1973
- The Oz, a nickname for the newspaper The Australian
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 1914-1915, co-founded by L. Frank Baum
- CHOZ-FM, a Canadian radio station based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, known as OZ FM
Computing and technology
- Oz (programming language)
- .oz, a former MHSnet domain
- .oz, an OpenNIC hosted Top-level domain
- OZ Virtual, a 3D world viewer
People
- Oz (surname), a list of people
- Oz (given name), a list of people with either the given name or nickname
- O. Z. Whitehead (1911–1998), American character actor
- 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
Other uses
- Congregation Ohab Zedek, a Manhattan synagogue sometimes abbreviated OZ
- OZ, the IATA code for Asiana Airlines
See also
- Ornstein–Zernike equation, in statistical mechanics
- O2 (disambiguation)
- OS (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Oz"
- All pages with titles containing Oz
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