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

• Ozzie (gorilla) (born c. 1961)

People

• 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

• 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).
• Ozzy the Eagle, mascot for Ozarks Technical Community College.
• Ozzie, a resistance fighter for Earth played by Travis MacDonald, on the second-season episode of the Andromeda TV series named Bunker Hill.

See also

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