Olivera J. Finn is a Yugoslav-American immunologist who is a distinguished professor and former chair of the department of immunology at the University of Pittsburgh (2001–2013) and former director of the Cancer Immunology Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (1999–2014).
She was president of the American Association of Immunologists from 2007 to 2008 and served on the AAI Council from 2002 to 2006.
She grew up and went to high school in Niš, which is south of Belgrade in what is now Serbia.
They settled in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where her husband was stationed for three years as a Coast Guard officer.
She published her first paper as an undergraduate, about completing a life cycle of a parasite.