Oliver Peoples is an American luxury eyewear brand established in 1986, and owned by Luxottica. The brand is sold in Oliver Peoples boutiques, online, and in fashion boutiques and department stores throughout the world. Oliver Peoples eyewear is designed in Los Angeles, Italy, and Japan.

Oliver Peoples was founded by Kenny Schwartz, Larry Leight and his brother Dennis Leight in 1986. Before they launched the company, Schwartz and Larry Leight worked as opticians. They would draw glasses on the celebrities in Vogue magazine. In 1984, Leight designed a frame, later named "Identity," that was fabricated for pop artist Andy Warhol. Warhol wore the glasses for an editorial spread published in the German magazine Männer Vogue in 1987.

In 1986, while Schwartz and the Leight brothers were searching for eyewear brands to stock their new boutique in West Hollywood, California, they purchased a bulk lot of American brand name frames in their original packaging for $5,000 at an auction in Connecticut. Contrary to popular belief and often advocated by Larry in the past for marketing purposes, the evocative brand name was not created accidentally while going through the inventory where a receipt was found naming the frames' original owner as Oliver Peoples, it was brainstormed by the founders including Cindy Leight starting as the abbreviation of OP, then as O Peoples and Oscar Peoples in referencing to the Oscars and finally settling on Oliver Peoples partially with inspiration from the novel Oliver Twist. Early manufacturing partnership was with the Japanese eyewear maker EYEVAN from the city of Sabae, Fukui.

In 2006, Oakley acquired Oliver Peoples for $46.7 million. In 2007, Oakley was purchased by eyewear giant Luxottica. In 2016, Rocco Basilico became the CEO of Oliver Peoples. After his first year at the helm, Basilico earned himself a place on the famed Forbes' '30 Under 30' list. To date, Basilico has helped increase Oliver Peoples' retail footprint from 14 to 42 global stores.

1989, Denise Crosby wears OP-505 in “Pet Sematary".

1991, Oliver Peoples is mentioned in Bret Easton Ellis' novel, American Psycho. The film adaptation, released in 2000, features Christian Bale in the iconic Oliver Peoples 'O'Malley' frames. The same year, Julia Roberts wears 'M-4 Sun' frames in Dying Young.^{[citation needed]}

1993, Whoopi Goldberg wears MP-2 in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. Also in 1993, Laura Dern wore Oliver Peoples glasses in Jurassic Park.

1994, Anthony Edwards wears Oliver Peoples (full rim frames, later rimless) throughout his entire tenure on ER.^{[citation needed]}