O`Brien Kate 3.12.1897 - 13.8.1974
irska pisateljica

On graduating from University College, Dublin, she worked on the Manchester Guardian and as a governess in Spain. She returned to England. Her play Distinguished Villa was well received in 1926, but she preferred the more solitary occupation of novelist. Her first novel,(a chronicle of middle-class Irish life) Without My Cloak (1931), won both the Hawthornden and James Tait Black prizes. Its theme would be constant throughout her novels, namely the sturggle (particularly the struggle of Irish women) for individual freedom and love against the constricting demands of family, bourgeois society and Catholic religion. Her main works: The Ante-Room (1934), Mary Lavelle (1936), The Land of Spices (1941), Pray for the Wanderer (1938), The Last of Summer (1943). Her most successful novel was That Lady (1946), set in sixteenth-century Spain.

    
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OIKONOMOPOULOU Aikaterini 16.2.1978 -
She won silver medal OG 2004 Athene: greek water polo team.

  
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OLDERHAUSEN Karin von

Olga knjeginja  pribl.(around) 890 - 969
Olga je bila ruska princesa žena princa Igorja in mati Svjatoslava. Bila je prva ruska vladarica, ki je sprejela krščanstvo.Ukrajinska pravoslavna cerkev jo je v začetku 13. stoletja proglasila za svetnico.

Olha  was a Rus princess and wife of Prince Ihor and mother of Svyatoslav.Olha was the first Rus ruler to become a Christian. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church canonized her and made her a saint during the beginning of the 13th. century.

 
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Olsson Anna 14.3.1964 -
švedska športnica, dobitnica zlate medalje na OI 1984 v kajaku dvosedu K-2 z Agneto Andersson.

She is Swedish retired canoer. She won several Olympic medals. On 1984 Summer Olympic she won gold medal in the kayak K-2 500 metres with Agneta Andersson. She also won a silver medal in the K-4 500 metres event, together with teammates Susanne Gunnarsson-Wiberg, Eva Karlsson and Agneta Andersson. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 metres event at the 1992 Summer Olympics, with Susanne Rosenqvist, Maria Haglund and Agneta Andersson. She then won another bronze medal in the K-4 500 metres event at the 1996 Summer Olympics, with Susanne Rosenqvist, Ingela Ericsson and Agneta Andersson.

  
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Oppenheim Meret 6.10.1913 - 15.11.1985
nemško švicarska slikarka, povezana z dadaisti in kasneje z pariškimi surrealisti.
Na znamki CH-1508 je njena slika: Pod nevihtnim oblakom.

After growing up in Switzerland, Meret Opeenheim traveled in Paris an enrolled at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. After meeting Giacometti, Arp, and Man Ray, she became absorbed in Surrealism, first contributing her sculptures to their exhibitions in 1933. At this point, many of her pieces consisted of everyday objects arranged so that they had allusions to female sexuality and feminine exploitation by the opposite sex. Oppenheim’s paintings focused on the same themes. Her originality and audacity established her as a leading female figure in the Surrealist movement.
On stamp CH-1508 is her painting: Under the Storm Cloud.
 

Oranien Luise Henriette von 27. 11.1627 - 18.6.1667
volilna knjeginja Branderburga

    
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Ordonowna Hanka 25.9.1902 - 8.9.1950
(pravo ime Maria Ana Tyszkiewiczowa) poljska pevka, igralka, plesalka.

Polish singer,  dancer and actress. She performed in Warsaw, Vilnus, Cracow and Lvov. In 1942 she joined to Polish Military Forces in Middle East. After war she settled in Beirut.

 
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Orelli Susanna 27.12.1845 - 1939

Swiss temperance leader, writer, doctor, founder of the Women's Society of Zurich. She was an advocate of alcohol abstinence and the founder of a number of non-alcoholic pubs.

  
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Orleanska IVANA sv. - Joan of Arc st. 1412 – 30.5.1431

Na znamki F-3150 je njena rojstna hiša.

                       
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Orlova Petrovna Ljubov 29.1.1902 - 26.1.1975

She was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, famous theatre actress and a gifted singer. She studied in Moscow Conservatory but did not graduate because she had to work to support her parents. Orlova's performance in a very popular 1934 comedy, Jolly Fellows, earned the young star the sympathy of Stalin and the title "Honorable actor of Soviet Republic". In the next years she played in many popular soviet movies: Circus (1936), Volga-Volga (1938), Bright Path (1940), and Spring (1947).

  
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Osipenko Pauline 23.10.1907 -1939
je ruska pilotka. Skupaj z Marino Raskovo in Valentino Grizodubovo so leta 1938 dosegle ženski rekord o daljinskem neprekinjenem poletu od Moskve do daljnega ruskega vzhoda.

Rusian pilot. On September 24-25, 1938, Paulina Ossipenko with Marina Raskova and Valentina Grizodubova set world record with their a non-stop flight of 5,900 km from Moscow to Siberia in an ANT-37.

  
        SU - 690

OSIRIS Wanda 3.6.1905 - 12.11.1994

Italian singer, stage name of Anna Marzio, the most famous ‘soubrette’ from the thirties to the fifties. Wonderful variety show actress and singer, she became the queen of the ‘curtain-raiser’.

  
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Ottesen-Jensen Elisa 1886 – 4.9.1973

Elise Ottesen-Jensen lectured for fifty years about birth control and sexual questions. She fought against legislation with a zeal that gradually overcame resistance in ever greater fields. In 1933 she took the initiative for the National Swedish Association for Sexual Information (RFSU) and twenty years later the IPPF was formed (the International Planned Parenthood Federation) with Elise Ottesen-Jensen as the chairman for Europa, Africa and the Middle East. A few years later she became the president. Three events were of decisive importance in Elise`s life: she was hurt in an explosion at a dental laboratory and several fingers had to be amputated; after a new education she was drawn towards journalism mainly for the oppotunity to reach many people with her protests against social injustice; her yungest sister bore child out of wedlock and was labelled a "fallen woman". The cild was taken fro the mother and many hardships led to her suicide.

  
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Otto-Peters Luise 26.3.1819 - 13.3.1895

Luise Otto-Peters was one of the most important German feminists and socialists. However, she had to publish her enlightenment-style writings about social poverty under her pseudonym (Otto Stern). She was the publisher and editor of the Frauen-Zeitung, which appeared for the first time in 1849. However, due to the Prussian laws, it was prohibited in 1850. After that, she published the Mitteldeutsche Volkszeitung with her husband, August Peters. Together with Auguste Schmidt and Henriette Goldschmidt, she founded the General German Women's Society in 1865, which she managed for three decades. This association opened a Sunday school, a continuation school for girls.

  
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Ozolina Elvira 8. 9. 1939 -
je latvijska atletinja, metalka kopja. Je prva atletinja, ki je vrgla kopje preko 61 m. Na OI 1960 je dobila zlato medaljo. Poročena je z atletom Janisom Lusisom, ki je ravno tako metalec kopja in je na OI 1968 zmagal v tej disciplini. Njun sin Voldemars je kot metalec kopja sodeloval na OI 2000 in 2004.
Na bloku LV-431 je tudi Jaunzeme Inese.

She is a Latvina athlete - javelin throw. She was the first woman to throw a javelin over 61 meter. She won the gold medal in the 1960 Olympic. Ozoliņa is married to Janis Lusis,  1968 Olympic champion in men's javelin throw. Their son, Voldemars Lusis, is also a javelin thrower who competed in 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
On sheet LV-431 is also Jaunzeme Inese.

   
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OZORAN Beria Remzi 1916 - 1992 
ciprska novinarka

Turkish journalist, daughter of newspaper publisher Remzi Bey. She worked in father`s office. Later she became a teacher for English traslation in Islamic school. From 1942-81 she was a translator in Turkish Prime Minister`s press office.  She wrote some socio-politic articles.

  
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