Omi

Omi or OMI may refer to:

Organisations

• Optical Mechanics, Inc., a US telescope company
• Ottico Meccanica Italiana, an Italian company
• Original Musical Instrument Company, manufacturers of resonator guitars
• Open Music Initiative, a digital rights framework for the music industry
• OMI Rotterdam, a foundation from Rotterdam
• Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a Catholic missionary order

Places

• Omi Shrine, in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
• Ōmi Province, a former province of Japan
• Omi, Nagano, a village in Japan
• Omidiyeh Air Base (IATA code: OMI), Iran

Science and technology

• HtrA serine peptidase 2 (symbol: OMI), an enzyme encoded by the HTRA2 gene
• Oocyte maturation inhibitor, created by follicular cells
• Ozone monitoring instrument, on the AURA satellite
• Outer, Middle and Inner, types of VHF marker beacon used in navigation

Computing

• OMI cryptograph, a cipher machine produced by Ottico Meccanica Italiana
• Open Management Infrastructure, an open-source CIM/WBEM management server
• Original Machine Interface, an instruction format used in the IBM i operating system
• Open Memory Interface, used for example in IBM Power10

People

• Omi (singer) (born 1986), Jamaican reggae singer
• Omi (given name), including a list of name-holders
• Kōji Omi (尾身 幸次, born 1932), Japanese politician
• Takayuki Omi (近江 孝行, born 1982), Japanese footballer
• Yusuke Omi (近江 友介, born 1946), Japanese football player
• Toshinori Omi (尾美 としのり, born 1965), Japanese actor
• Toshiya Omi (尾身 俊哉, born 1995), Japanese footballer
• Shigeru Omi (尾身 茂, born 1949), President of the Japan Community Health Care Organization
• Tomoe Ohmi (近江 知永, born 1982), Japanese singer and voice actress
• Ōmi no Mifune (淡海三船, 722—785), Japanese scholar and writer
• Yukitaka Omi (小見 幸隆, born 1952), is a former Japanese football player
• Yurie Omi (born 1988), Japanese television announcer and news anchor

Other uses

• Eight Views of Ōmi, traditional scenic views of Ōmi Province
• Omi (title), an ancient Japanese hereditary title
• Ōmi Code, a collection of laws compiled in 668AD in classical Japan
• Omi, protagonist of the animated TV series Xiaolin Showdown
• Omi language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

See also

• Horace Ridler (1882–1965), professional freak and sideshow performer known as "The Great Omi"