Wally Olins

Wallace Olins CBE was a British practitioner of corporate identity and branding. He co-founded Wolff Olins and Saffron Brand Consultants and was the chairman of both. Olins advised many of the world's leading organisations on identity, branding, communication and related matters including 3i, Akzo Nobel, Repsol, Q8, The Portuguese Tourist Board, BT, Renault, Volkswagen, Tata and Lloyd's of London. He acted as advisor both to McKinsey and Bain. He pioneered the concept of the nation as a brand and has worked on branding projects for a number of cities and countries, including London, Mauritius, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and Lithuania.

19 December 1930

Born on the same birth date (19 December 1930): Knut Helle

Born on the same birth day (19 December): Arvydas Sabonis • Bobby Layne • Cyril Collard • Edward Bernard Raczyński • Italo Svevo • Jake Plummer • King Princess • Lola Hendricks • Michael Bates (American football) • Nathan Oliveira • Neil Kilkenny • Rajesh Chauhan • Rosemary Conley • Shane McEntee (politician) • William Schutz

Born in the same month (December 1930): Bill Young (Florida politician) • David R. Harris (geographer) • Donald Moffat • Edna O'Brien • Hal W. Smith • Jaime Escalante • Jean-Louis Trintignant • Jean-Luc Godard • Jim Hall (musician) • Joachim Hoffmann • John J. Kelley • Marie Bashir • Odetta • Robert Joffrey • Ronnie Corbett • Wayne D. Anderson • Yi-Fu Tuan