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Oliphant
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Olifant, Oliphant, Olyphant and similar variations may refer to:
Geography edit
- Oliphant, Ontario, Canada, a community
- Oliphant Islands, South Orkney Islands
- Olifants River (Limpopo), South Africa
- Olifants River (Southern Cape), South Africa
- Olifants River (Western Cape), South Africa
- Olifants Water Management Area, South Africa
- Olyphant, Pennsylvania, a borough in Pennsylvania, United States
People edit
- Oliphant (surname), a list of notable people with this name
- Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), British organist and composer
- Clan Oliphant, a Highland Scottish clan
Arts, entertainment, and media edit
- Oliphant (band), a Finnish band
- Oliphant, a type of monster in the Index of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition monsters
- Oliphaunt or mûmak, a monstrous elephant-like creature in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Sir Olifaunt, a vicious giant in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Thopas", in The Canterbury Tales
- Eleanor Oliphant, protagonist of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Titles edit
- Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland
- Oliphant baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Vehicles edit
- Olifant (tank), a South African version of the British Centurion tank
Others edit
- Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, a U.S. Supreme Court case deciding that Indian tribal courts have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians
- Olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the Middle Ages, made from elephants' tusks
- D'Oliphant, a Dutch mansion originally built near Nieuwesluis, later moved to Rotterdam
- De Olifant, Burdaard, a windmill in the Netherlands