title: Odessa (given name)
text: # 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
  