Orson

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Orson may refer to:

Places

United States

Fictional places

  • Orson, Indiana, a small fictional town in the TV series The Middle

People

  • Orson Bean (1928–2020), American film, television, and stage actor
  • Orson Flagg Bullard (1834-1906), Pennsylvania state representative
  • Orson Scott Card (1951–), author of speculative fiction
  • Orson Squire Fowler (1809–1887), phrenologist who popularized the octagon house
  • Orson Welles (1915–1985), American director, writer, actor and producer for film, stage, radio and television

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  • Orson Pratt (1811–1881) and Orson Hyde (1805–1878), leaders in the Latter-day Saint movement and original members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles
  • Orson F. Whitney (1855–1931), politician, journalist, poet, historian and academic, and member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles
  • Orson Spencer (1802–1855), prolific writer and prominent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Orson Pratt Huish (1851–1932), Latter-day Saint hymn writer

Fictional characters

  • Orson, the hero of Valentine and Orson, a medieval romance, from which the name originates
  • Orson, a ghost who controlled his own mech suit, Toc-Man from Pac-Man World and its remake
  • Orson Hodge, a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives
  • The unseen supervisor of the alien Mork from planet Ork on the ABC situation comedy Mork & Mindy
  • Orson Pig, a fictional character on the comic strip U.S. Acres
  • Orson Pink, a character from Doctor Who
  • Orson Krennic, a character in the Star Wars franchise film Rogue One
  • Orson, the original name for Tweety Bird
  • Orson, the main antagonist of the 2022 American 3D-animated film The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.

Other

See also

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