Ozzie

This article is about the given name. For the video game series, see Ozzie (series). For other uses, see Ozzy (disambiguation).

Ozzie or Ozzy is a masculine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Oswald, Oscar, Osborne, Osman and Ozymandias and other names, surname and nickname which may refer to:

## Animals[edit]

* Ozzie (gorilla) (born c. 1961)

## People[edit]

* Chris Osgood (born 1972), National Hockey League goaltender for the Detroit Red Wings
* Ray Ozzie (born 1955), former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
* Ozzie Albies (born 1997), Major League Baseball player
* Ozzie Cadena (1924–2008), American record producer
* Ozzie Canseco (born 1964), Cuban-born former baseball player, brother of José Canseco
* Osborne Colson (1916–2006), Canadian figure skater and coach
* Osborne Cowles (1899-1997), American college basketball and football player and coach
* Ozzie Guillén (born 1964), Venezuelan former Major League Baseball player and manager
* Ozzy Lusth (born 1981), Survivor reality TV show contestant
* Ozzie Myers (born 1943), American politician convicted for his part in the Abscam scandal
* Ozzie Nelson (1901-1975), American band leader, actor, director, and producer, best known for playing the father in the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
* Ozzie Newsome, American former National Football League player and current general manager of the Baltimore Ravens, member of the Hall of Fame
* Ozzie Osborn (born 1946), American former Major League Baseball pitcher in 1975
* Ozzy Osbourne (born 1948), English lead singer for heavy metal band Black Sabbath, songwriter and star of the reality TV show The Osbournes'
* Ozzie Silna (1932-2016), American businessman and basketball franchise co-owner
* Ozzie Simmons (1914-2001), African-American college football player
* Ozzie Smith (born 1954), American retired Major League Baseball player and member of the Hall of Fame
* Ozzie Sweet (1918-2013), American sports photographer born Oscar Cowan Corbo
* Ozzie Timmons (born 1970), American former Major League Baseball player
* Ozzie Virgil, Sr. (born 1932), former Major League Baseball utility player from the Dominican Republic
* Ozzie Virgil, Jr. (born 1956), former Major League Baseball All-Star catcher from Puerto Rico

## Fictional characters[edit]

* Ozzie Altobello, main villain in the film The Godfather Part III, played by Eli Wallach
* Ozzie Mandrill, villain in computer adventure game Escape from Monkey Island
* Ozzie, Slash, and Flea, villains who serve Magus in the role-playing game Chrono Trigger
* Ozzie Fernandez Isaacs, creator of the wormholes technology and the gaïa field in the Commonwealth universe of Peter F Hamilton
* "My Ozzie," bachelor owner of Earl, the Jack Russell terrier in Mutts, the comic strip
* Ozzie Graham, reporter who joins the StarCrossed group in the TV series People of Earth.
* Ozzy Delvecchio, character played by John Leguizamo in Bloodline (TV series).
* Ozzie Paxton, a computer-engineering prodigy, played by Vincent Kartheiser in Masterminds (1997 film).

## See also[edit]

* Aussie, a slang term for Australian, both the adjective and the noun, and less commonly, Australia
* Ossi (disambiguation)
* Ossie, a given name

## References[edit]

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