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                            Introduction
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Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to:


            People and fictional and mythical characters
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* Oscar (given name), including lists of people and fictional
characters named Oscar, Óscar or Oskar
* Oscar (footballer, born 1954), Brazilian footballer José Oscar
Bernardi
* Oscar (footballer, born 1991), Brazilian footballer Oscar dos Santos
Emboaba Júnior
* Oscar (Irish mythology), son of Oisín and grandson of Finn mac
Cumhall
* Oscar (wrestling), manager of Men on a Mission


                    Places in the United States
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* Oscar, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Oscar, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
* Oscar, Missouri, an unincorporated community
* Oscar, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
* Oscar, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
* Oscar, Texas, an unincorporated community
* Oscar, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Oscar Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, a civil township
* Lake Oscar (disambiguation)


                              Animals
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* Oscar (bionic cat), a cat that had implants after losing both hind
paws
* Oscar (bull) (died 1983) a ProRodeo Hall of Fame bucking bull
* Oscar (fish), 'Astronotus ocellatus'
* Oscar (therapy cat), a cat purported to predict the deaths of
hospice patients
* Oscar, a nickname for Beast of Busco, a North American cryptid
turtle
* Oscar, a nickname for Unsinkable Sam, a World War II ship's cat that
survived three ships sinking


Film
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* Oscar, another name for an  Academy Award
* 'The Oscar' (film), starring Stephen Boyd
* 'Oscar' (1967 film), starring Louis de Funès
* 'Oscar' (1991 film), starring Sylvester Stallone


Other uses in arts and entertainment
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* 'Oscar' (opera), a 2013 opera about Oscar Wilde, by Theodore
Morrison
* 'Oscar' (video game), a 1993 platform game
* 'Oscar' (TV serial), a 1985 British TV serial
* "Oscar" ('Juliet Bravo'), a 1980 television episode
* OSC OSCar, a music synthesizer manufactured by the Oxford
Synthesizer Company
* Oscar (ballet), a ballet choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon


                              Military
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* Oscar, the letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet (NATO phonetic
alphabet)
* Oscar, Allied codename for the Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa, a World War
II Japanese fighter aircraft
* Oscar-class submarine, a Soviet/Russian Navy submarine class
* Oscar (paradummy), American nickname for decoys dropped during the
1944 invasion of Normandy
* OSCAR (Optimum Survival Containment and Recovery), an escape pod
project for the Vought F-8 Crusader fighter aircraft


                       Science and technology
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* OSCAR McMaster, an electronic medical record system
* OSCAR protocol, a protocol used by AOL Instant Messenger
* Open Source Cluster Application Resources, a Linux-based software
installation
* OSCAR (gene), short for Osteoclast-associated immunoglobulin-like
receptor
* Ocean Surface Current Analysis - Real time, a website that provides
data on ocean currents
* OSCAR (Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio), a designation for
amateur radio satellites


                             Transport
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* OScar, a project aiming to design an open source vehicle
* OScar (Danish automobile), a Danish sports car
* 'MSC Oscar', container ship
* 'Oscar', a a whaling ship sunk off Aberdeen in 1813
* Outer Suburban CAR, a name for the NSW TrainLink H set, a type of
electric train in Australia


                             Other uses
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* List of storms named Oscar, storms bearing this name
* Oscar Health, a U.S. health insurance company
* Out of School Care and Recreation
* OSCAR Radio, a school FM radio station in Northamptonshire, England


                              See also
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* Student Oscars (Student Academy Awards), the Student Film Awards
* King Oscar (disambiguation)
* Veal Oscar, a culinary creation
* Oskar (disambiguation)
* Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)


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