Vanessa

Vanessa may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Vanessa (Millais painting), an 1868 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais
 * Vanessa, a 1933 novel by Hugh Walpole
 * Vanessa, a 1952 instrumental song written by Bernie Wayne and performed by Hugo Winterhalter
 * Vanessa, a song by Grimes and d'Eon from Darkbloom
 * Vanessa (opera), a Samuel Barber opera that premiered in 1958
 * Vanessa (1977 film), a 1977 West German film featuring Olivia Pascal
 * Vanessa (Mexican TV series), 1982 Mexican telenovela starring Lucía Méndez
 * Vanessa (UK TV series), British talk show presented by Vanessa Feltz
 * Vanessa, former name of Canadian television channel Vivid TV

People

 * Vanessa (name), a female given name and list of persons named Vanessa
 * Esther Vanhomrigh, for whom Jonathan Swift coined the name

Fictional characters

 * Vanessa (King of Fighters), a character in SNK Playmore's The King of Fighters video game series
 * Vanessa (Symphogear), a character in the anime series Symphogear
 * Vanessa, a character in the Nickelodeon sitcom Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
 * Vanessa, the alias of Disney's The Little Mermaid character Ursula in the 1989 film
 * Vanessa, daughter of Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb an animated show premiered in 2007
 * Vanessa Geraldine Carlysle, known as Copycat in Marvel Comics and the 2016 film Deadpool
 * Vanessa (Five Nights at Freddy's), a character in Five Nights at Freddy's video game series
 * Vanessa Lewis, in the Japanese video game series Virtua Fighter
 * Vanessa Woodfield, in the British television series Emmerdale
 * Vanessa Taylor, long-lost daughter of Maggie Lockwood-Campbell of Chicago Med who debuted in its sixth season

Other

 * Vanessa (butterfly), a genus of butterflies
 * Vanessa, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
 * HMS Vanessa, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy