City

Olympia

Olympia may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • Olympia (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games
  • Olympia (1998 film), about a Mexican soap opera star who pursues a career as an athlete
  • Olympia (2011 film), about an aspiring porn actress
  • Olympia (2018 drama film), an American romantic drama
  • Olympia (2018 documentary film), about the career of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis

Music

  • Olympia (musician), Australian art-pop singer-songwriter-guitarist Olivia Jayne Bartley (born 1982)
  • Olympia (Bryan Ferry album)
  • Olympia (Austra album)
  • Olympia (EP), an EP by The Maybes?
  • "Olympia" (song), a song by Sergio Mendes

Other arts and entertainment

  • Olympia (Manet), an 1863 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet
  • Olympia, a 1948 oil on canvas painting by René Magritte
  • Olympia (comics), a fictional city in Marvel Comics
  • Olympia, a mechanical doll in E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story "Der Sandmann", and in the opera The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach

Buildings and landmarks

United Kingdom

  • Kensington (Olympia) station, a station in London, UK
  • Liverpool Olympia, a theatre in Liverpool, UK
  • Olympia London, an exhibition centre in London, UK

United States

  • Detroit Olympia, the former stadium of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings
  • Olympia Apartments (Washington, D.C.), U.S., listed on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Olympia Building, Atlanta, location of an iconic Coca-Cola sign
  • Olympia Theatre (New York), a now-demolished theatre complex in New York City, U.S.

Elsewhere

  • Olympia (Paris), a famous music hall in Paris, France
  • Olympia (São Paulo), a former music venue in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Olympia Milk Bar, a cultural landmark in Sydney, Australia
  • Olympia Theatre, Dublin, a concert hall in Dublin, Ireland
  • Olympia Theatre, Perth, Australia, now the Luna Leederville

Businesses

  • Olympia Compact Discs Ltd., a British CD label active in the 1990s releasing material from the Soviet Union, Poland, the Netherlands and other countries
  • Olympia Brewing Company (1896–2003), a brewery in Tumwater, Washington, U.S.
  • Olympia Capital Holdings, a holding company for several African businessese
  • Olympia Press, a French publisher
  • Olympia and York, a now-bankrupt property firm based in Canada
  • Olympia-Werke, a former major manufacturer of typewriters in Germany
  • Olympia Sports, a sporting goods company

Military

  • HMS Olympia, ships of the Royal Navy
  • USS Olympia, two US Navy ships named after the city of Olympia
  • Olympia-class cruiser, a US Navy class of protected cruisers

Organisms

  • Olympia, a section of the plant genus Hypericum (St. John's-worts)
  • Olympia oyster, a Pacific coast oyster
  • Euchloe olympia, a North American butterfly commonly called the Olympia Marble

People

  • Olympia (given name)
  • Olympia, a nickname for American professional bodybuilder Iris Kyle (born 1974)

Places

Greece

  • Olympia, Greece, the site of the ancient Olympic Games
  • Olympia Province, a former province of Greece

United States

  • Olympia, Georgia, a ghost town
  • Olympia, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
  • Olympia, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Olympia, South Carolina, a census-designated place
  • Olympia, Washington, the state capital

Schools

  • Olympia High School (disambiguation), several high schools in the United States
  • Olympia College, a for-profit group of American colleges, part of the Everest College system

Sport

Sports clubs

  • Olympia FC (disambiguation), several football clubs
  • Olympia Club de Bruxelles, a former Belgian football club
  • Olympia Sofia, a women's football club in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven, a German sports club
  • Olympia Larissa BC, a basketball club based in Larissa, Greece
  • Olympia București, a football club based in Bucharest, Romania
  • Olympia HC, a handball club in London, United Kingdom

Facilities

  • Detroit Olympia, the former stadium of the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings
  • Olympia Skistadion, a ski-jumping facility in Garmisch, Germany
  • Olympia (Helsingborg), a football stadium in Helsingborg, Sweden
  • Olympia Ice Center, a hockey rink in West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
  • Olympia Leisure Centre (1974), a former swimming pool in Dundee, Scotland
  • Olympia Leisure Centre (2013), a swimming pool in Dundee, Scotland

Other sports

  • Olympia (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Mr. Olympia, an annual bodybuilding contest
  • Ms. Olympia, an annual women's bodybuilding contest

Transportation

Maritime

  • SS Olympia, a steamship that served the northwest United States and Alaska
  • MV Olympia, original name of SPL Princess Anastasia (1986), a cruiseferry operated by Viking Line between 1986 and 1993
  • Olympia, later MS Regal Empress, an ocean liner
  • Olympia Terminal, a dock in the South Harbour of Helsinki, Finland

Other transportation

  • Olympia Regional Airport, Olympia, Washington, United States, a public use airport
  • EoN Olympia, a glider built in numbers in the 1940s in the United Kingdom
  • Opel Olympia, a family car
  • Olympia railway station, Olympia, Greece

Other uses

  • 582 Olympia, an asteroid
  • Olympia Academy or "Akademie Olympia", a semi-formal group of friends that included Albert Einstein
  • Walther Olympia, a 1936 semi-automatic handgun manufactured by Walther
  • Olympia (ice resurfacer), a line of ice resurfacers manufactured by Resurfice Corporation

See also

  • Olympiastadion (Berlin), a stadium originally built for the cancelled 1916 Summer Olympics
  • Olympia Heights, Florida, United States
  • Olympia Fields, Illinois, United States
  • DFS Olympia Meise, a glider built in numbers in the 1930s in Germany
  • Olympias (disambiguation)
  • Olympic (disambiguation)
  • Olympus (disambiguation)
  • Olympe (disambiguation)
  • Olimpia (disambiguation)
  • Olimpija (disambiguation)
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