Vanessa
Vanessa may refer to:
Art
- Vanessa (Millais painting), an 1868 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais
- Vanessa, a 1933 novel by Hugh Walpole
- "Vanessa" (song), a 1952 instrumental song written by Hugo Winterhalter
- Vanessa (opera), a Samuel Barber opera that premiered in 1958
- Vanessa, a 1976 German film featuring Olivia Pascal
People
- Vanessa (name), a female given name
- Esther Vanhomrigh, for whom Jonathan Swift coined the name
- Vanessa Zamora, singer and song-writer
Fictional characters
- Vanessa (King of Fighters), a character in SNK Playmore's The King of Fighters video game series
- Vanessa, a character in the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide American sitcom
- Vanessa, the alias of Disney's The Little Mermaid character Ursula in the 1989 film
- Vanessa daughter of Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb a show released in 2007
- Vanessa Geraldine Carlysle, known as Copycat in Marvel Comics and the 2016 Deadpool film
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
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