Odessa (given name) explained

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