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Ossie is a nickname usually used in place of a given name. It may be formed from the male given name Oswald, Osbourne or Osvaldo. Oswald can refer to: Saint Oswald, from the 10th century Lee Harvey Oswald, involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy Stephen S. Oswald, a NASA astronaut Oswald Teichmüller, a German mathematician Oswald Achenbach, a German landscape painter Oswald Veblen, an American mathematician Oswald Garrison Villard, a Americn journalist... This article resolves the various uses of the name Osbourne. ...


Famous people named Ossie include:

See also: Osvaldo (Ossie) César Ardiles (born August 3, 1952 in Córdoba, Argentina) is a football coach and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentinian national team. ... Oswald Louis Ossie Bluege (October 24, 1900 - October 14, 1985) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Washington Senators from 1922 to 1939. ... Raymond Ossie Clark (June 9, 1942–August 6, 1996) was an English fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era. ... Ossie Davis in The Green Pastures, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an African American film actor, director and social activist. ... Ossie Ostrich (full name: Oswald Q Ostrich) was a character on the long-running Australian television show Hey Hey Its Saturday. ... Oscar B. Ossie Schectman (born March 30, 1919 in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York) is a former basketball player. ...


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Ossi is an informal name for citizens of the (former) German Democratic Republic (East Germany), especially since reunification.
Most Germans consider them to be just an adjective/informal way to quickly differentiate between the two entities that form Germany today and came from reunification, when the terms were first used.
Ossi - is a family name, that orgines from the formar jewish citizens of iraq, who later immigrated to israel due the growing anti-shemitisem that developed in the jears of saddam hussein.
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Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an African-American actor, film director, and activist.
Ossie Davis and his wife, actor Ruby Dee (they married in 1948), were well-known civil rights activists, being personal friends of Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr.
Ossie’s web site is updated weekly so you can see the new surfboards for sale, as well as the used surfboards for sale in the shop.
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