Personal Background
- Name: Oliver Ortmann
- Known as: "The Machine"
- Sex: Male
- Age: 40 years old
- Date of Birth: June 17, 1967
- Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
- Country: Germany
- Nationality: German
- Hobbies: Playing pool
- Spouse: na
- Sports: Billiard
- 2007 World Straight Pool Champion
- 2007 European Eight-ball Pool Champion
- 2006 European Eight-ball Pool Champion
- 2003 European Nine-ball Pool Champion
- 2002 European Nine-ball Pool Champion
- 2002 Mosconi Cup winning team captain
- 2000 International Challenge of Champions Winner
- 1999 European Nine-ball Pool Champion
- 1997 International Challenge of Champions Winner
- 1996 European Nine-ball Pool Champion
- 1996 European Eight-ball Pool Champion
- 1995 WPA Men's Nine-ball World Champion
- 1995 Mosconi Cup winning team captain
- 1994 European Nine-ball Pool Champion
- 1993 European Nine-ball Pool Champion
- 1989 US Open Straight Pool Champion
- 13 time European Tour Champion
- 41 German Championship medals
- 26 European Championship medals
- Oliver Ortmann is a German top professional pool player. He is renowned not only as a World Champion in Nine-Ball but also in the resurgent discipline of 14.1 or straight pool.
- A native-born Hamburger, Ortmann is one of the most successful European players. He first came to prominence by defeating Steve Mizerak to win the 1989 US Open 14.1 Championship. In 1995, he became the WPA Men's Nine-ball World Champion.
- In 2004, Ortmann formed Ortmann Billiards, a company which sells pool products. Two years later he joined the International Pool Tour, and also continued competing in events sanctioned by other organizations. He won the 2007 WPA World Straight Pool Championship defeating Huidji See, 200-171 in the final match. This is his second World title in 12 years. During the tournament Ortmann made the third-highest run of the tournament, 131.