Orville may refer to:

People

Orville (given name) Orville is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Orville E. Atwood (1880–1939), American politician *Orville E. Babcock (1835–1884), American general *Orville Hickman Browning (1806–1881), American politician *Orville ...

, a list of people with the male given name * Howard Thomas Orville (1901-1960), American naval officer and meteorologist *

Max Orville Max-Léo Orville (born 1962) is an Ivory Coast-born French politician from the Democratic Movement (France), Democratic Movement (MoDem) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2022 to 2024. Political career Orville was candidat ...

(born 1962), French politician * Merlyn Orville Valan (1926-2010), American politician and farmer *

Orville Redenbacher Orville Clarence Redenbacher (July 16, 1907 – September 19, 1995) was an American food scientist and businessman most often associated with the brand of popcorn that bears his name which is now owned by Conagra Brands. ''The New York Times' ...

(1907-1995), American popcorn entrepreneur *

Orville Wright The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first succes ...

(1871-1948), American aviation pioneer *

Orville the Duck Orville the Duck was the most famous puppet often used by the ventriloquist Keith Harris (1947–2015) and was named after Orville Wright (one of the Wright Brothers). Appearance Orville is a green duckling who wears a nappy with a large saf ...

(1982-), Duck, Northern, puppet *

Shaggy (musician) Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968), known professionally as Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae musician who scored hits with the songs "It Wasn't Me", "Boombastic (song), Boombastic", "In the Summertime#Shaggy version, In the S ...

real name Orville Richard Burrell (1968-), Jamaican-American singer

Places

France

* Orville, Côte-d'Or, a commune in the Côte-d'Or department * Orville, Indre, a commune in the Indre department *

Orville, Loiret Orville () is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Loiret department The following is the list of the 325 communes of the Loiret department of France. The communes cooperate in the followi ...

, a commune in the Loiret department * Orville, Orne, a former commune in the Orne department * Orville, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department

United States

Mount Orville Mount Orville is a high peak of the Fairweather Range, the southernmost part of the Saint Elias Mountains. It is included in Glacier Bay National Park. The peak is the lower of a pair of peaks, Mounts Wilbur and Orville, named after the Wright ...

, Alaska, a high peak of the Fairweather Range *

Orville, West Virginia Orville is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The Un ...

, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

Orville Coast Orville Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying west of Ronne Ice Shelf between Cape Adams and Cape Zumberge. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, under Ronne, who named this coast for Capta ...

, a portion of the coast of Antarctica

Other uses

Orville by Gibson or was a brand of guitars that was managed by the Gibson Guitar Corporation for the Japanese market during the late 1980s and most of the 1990s. The name is borrowed from Orville Gibson, who founded Gibson in 1902. Products manufactured under ...

, a brand of guitars * ''

The Orville ''The Orville'' is an American science fiction comedy drama television series created by Seth MacFarlane, who also stars as the protagonist Ed Mercer, an officer in the Planetary Union's line of exploratory space vessels in the 25th century. It ...

'', a science fiction television series *

Don Orville Below is a list of characters in the U.S. television comedy series ''3rd Rock from the Sun'': Cast Main characters Dr. Richard "Dick" Solomon (Portrayed by John Lithgow; seasons 1-6) Though the High Commander and head of the expedition to Eart ...

, a character in the American TV series ''3rd Rock from the Sun'' *

Orville (horse) Orville (1799–1826) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and Horse breeding#Terminology, sire. In a racing career which lasted from August 1801 until October 1807 the horse ran thirty-four times and won twenty races. In his early career he ...

, a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire *

, a puppet character featured by British ventriloquist Keith Harris