Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Oliver Cummings Farrington (9 ga Oktoba 1864 Brewer, Maine, Amurka 2 ga Nuwamba 1933 Chicago, Illinois, Amurka) masanin kimiyyar kasa ne na Amurka. An haife shi ne a Brewer, Maine, kuma an horar da shi a Jami'ar Maine (B.S., 1881; M.S., 1888) da kuma Jami'ar Yale (Ph.D., 1891), inda ya kasance mai koyarwa a 1890-91. Tsakanin 1882 da 1887 ya koyar da kimiyya a kwalejojin Maine daban-daban, a 1893 ya kasance mataimaki a Gidan Tarihi na Kasa na Amurka, a 1894 ya zama mai kula da ilimin ƙasa a Gidan Tarihi na Tarihi, Chicago, kuma daga 1894 zuwa 1904 ya kasance mai koyar da ilimin ma'adinai a Jami'ar Chicago. Ya kasance mai haɗin gwiwa a cikin ma'adinai da ma'adinai a baje kolin Paris a 1900 kuma memba na Jury na Duniya na Kyauta a St. Louis
a shekara ta 1904. Ya kasance shugaban kungiyar gidajen tarihi na Amurka (yanzu kungiyar Amurka ta gidajen tarihi) a cikin 1914-16.