List of People From Brighton and Hove - O

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• Peter O'Donnell, creator of Modesty Blaise
• Laurence Olivier (Lord Olivier) and Joan Plowright; lived at Royal Crescent 1960–78
• John Osborne, playwright, lived in 7a Arundel Terrace, Kemp Town in the 1950s
• Steve Ovett, Olympic runner, 800 metres gold medalist in 1980, born and brought up in Brighton. There was a statue of him in Preston Park, Brighton, which got stolen, and a replacement statue is in Madeira Drive. Ovett was made Freeman of the city in July 2012.
• Denise Van Outen, television presenter, currently renovating a house
• Bill Owen, actor, lived in Sussex Square in the 1950s
• Tom Owen (born 1949), actor, son of Bill Owen, was born in Brighton
• Adrian Oxaal, guitarist, formerly with James