Melissus

Melissus may refer to:


 * Melissus of Samos, (fl. c. 500 BC), Greek philosopher
 * Melissus of Thebes, Greek athlete contrasted to Orion by Pindar
 * Gaius Maecenas Melissus (fl. early 1st century AD), Roman writer
 * Paulus Melissus (1539–1602), humanist Neo-Latin writer, translator and composer
 * Melisseus (or Melissus), father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus on Crete
 * Melissus (another mythological figure), father of Actaeon; see Archias of Corinth