Olney (surname)
Olney is a surname. People with the surname include:
- Buster Olney, baseball commentator
- Cyrus Olney, American politician and judge
- David Olney, American singer and songwriter
- Frank F. Olney 18th mayor of Providence, Rhode Island 1894-1896
- Frederick C. Olney, African-American lawyer with Native American ancestry
- Howard Olney, Australian jurist and Aboriginal Lands Commissioner
- Ian Olney, English association footballer
- Jeremiah Olney, Continental Army soldier and older brother of Stephen Olney
- Jesse Olney, American geographer
- John Olney, physician, medical scientist and critic of food additives
- Martha Olney, economics professor and textbook author
- Peter B. Olney, New York County District Attorney 1883–1884
- Richard Olney, United States Attorney General and Secretary of State
- Richard Olney II, Congressman from Massachusetts
- Richard Olney (food writer), American writer
- Sarah Olney, British Liberal Democrat politician and an accountant
- Stephen Olney, Continental Army soldier and Rhode Island legislator
- Violet Olney, British athlete
- Warren Olney, co-founder of the Sierra Club, mayor of Oakland, California
- Warren Olney Jr., justice of the California Supreme Court
- Warren Olney IV, broadcast journalist in Los Angeles, California