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Olga

American  
[ol-guh, ohl-, awl-guh] / ˈɒl gə, ˈoʊl-, ˈɔl gə /

noun

  1. Saint, died a.d. 968?, regent of Kyiv until 955: saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

  2. a female given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “holy.”


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Olga Kefalogianni said the Greek government did not want visitors to be "burdened" by bureaucratic procedures when entering or leaving the country.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

External collaborators included the DNAzoo project and Olga Dudchenko and Erez Lieberman Aiden, who are both faculty members at Rice University and at the Baylor College of Medicine.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

"These are our children, these are our warriors, they defended us," said Olga, 55, tearing up.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

It opened to a letter from Dame Olga to her daughters.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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