Odessa (given name)

Odessa is a unisex given name. Notable people with the name include:

Women

 * Odessa (musician), American musician
 * Odessa Adlon (born 2000), actress
 * Odessa Chiklis (born 1999), daughter of Michael Chiklis
 * Odessa Cleveland (born 1944), American actress
 * Odessa Grady Clay (1917–1994), mother of Muhammad Ali
 * Odessa Harris, (1936–2007), American blues and jazz singer
 * Odessa Piper (born 1953), American restaurateur and chef
 * Odessa Warren Grey (1883–1960), American milliner, entrepreneur, and actress
 * Odessa Young (born 1998), Australian actress

Men

 * Odessa Sathyan (1957–2014), Indian documentary maker and activist
 * Odessa Turner (born 1964), American football player

Fictional characters

 * Odessa Cubbage, a minor character in the game Half-Life 2
 * Odessa Dobson, a character from The Spoils of Babylon
 * Odessa from Into the Badlands
 * Odessa (Encantadia), a character in the fantasy series Etheria
 * Odessa Silverberg, a character from the video game Suikoden