Olifant (disambiguation)
Olifant (also Oliphant ) is borrowed from the Dutch term for elephant and stands for:
- Olifant , musical instrument in the shape of a horn, often used as a bugle
- Olifant (tank) , South African main battle tank type
- Olifant , a historical paper format (675 mm × 1082 mm)
- Lord Oliphant , title of nobility
in the broader sense for:
- Oliphant Islands , archipelago in the Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica
- Olifants River , three different rivers in South Africa
- Oliphant Mountains , mountain landscape in South Africa
- Mûmakil , elephant-like creature from JRR Tolkien's works
Oliphant is the family name of the following people:
- Betty Oliphant (1918-2004), Canadian dance teacher
- Evan Oliphant (* 1982), Scottish cyclist
- Herman Oliphant (1884–1939), American legal philosopher
- Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888), British travel writer, diplomat and occultist
- Laurence Oliphant, 1st Lord Oliphant († 1499), Scottish nobleman
- Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), Australian physicist and politician
- Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897), Scottish writer
- Pat Oliphant (born 1935), Australian-American cartoonist
- Robert Oliphant (* 1956), Canadian politician and theologian
- Richard Blair-Oliphant , composer for films, series and documentaries
as well as a pseudonym of
- Sheri S. Tepper ("BJ Oliphant"), US author
See also:
