Odessa (given name)
# 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
