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People: O

9 people of 861, A to Z.

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  • Olaudah EquianoCampaigner who took news of the Zong case to Granville Sharp on 19 March 1783.
  • Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658Lord Protector of England from 1653 to 1658.
  • Olivier J. WoutersHealth policy researcher; author of the 2020 JAMA Internal Medicine study of pharmaceutical industry lobbying.
  • Olzhas SuleimenovPoet from Kazakhstan who founded the Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement in February 1989.
  • Omar BashirPolitical scientist; author of “Testing inferences about American politics” (2015).
  • Osama bin LadenLed al Qaeda; gave the go-ahead for the 11 September 2001 operation, according to the 9/11 Commission.
  • Oskar Potiorek 1853–1933Austro-Hungarian general and governor of Bosnia in 1914.
  • Oswaldo BallarinChairman of the board of the company that made and sold Nestlé products in Brazil; spoke for Nestlé at the Senate hearing of 1978.
  • Ousamequin (Massasoit)Sachem of the Pokanoket who made an agreement with Plymouth in 1621.