Ovadia is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: *

Dvira Ovadia Dvira Ovadia (born 1979 in Israel) is a Canadian television personality and an award-winning/celebrity designer. She is best known as winning the 2007 show called '' From The Ground Up with Debbie Travis'' season two. The show aired on Global TV M ...

(born 1979), Israeli television personality and interior designer *

Moni Ovadia Salomone "Moni" Ovadia (born 16 April 1946 in Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian-born Italian actor, musician, singer and theatrical author. He is one of the most highly regarded figures in contemporary Italian culture. His theatrical performances recall ...

(born 1946), Italian actor, musician, singer, and theatrical author *

Robert Ovadia Robert Ovadia is an Australian journalist. Ovadia is currently a reporter and fill-in presenter for ''Seven News'' in Sydney. Career Ovadia studied Communications and French at Macquarie University, and began his career in regional televi ...

, Australian reporter *

Ovadia Eli Ovadia Eli ( he, עובדיה עלי, born 22 May 1945) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 1984 until 1996, Deputy Minister of Defense between 1991 and 1992, and mayor of Afula from 1978 until 1 ...

(born 1945), Israeli politician *

Ovadia Hedaya Ovadia Hedaya ( he, , 24 December 1889 – 8 February 1969) was a leading Israeli rabbi. Biography Rabbi Hadaya was born in 1889 in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, to rabbi Shalom Hedaya. In 1945, he succeeded his father as head of Yeshivat Ha ...

(1889–1969), Israeli rabbi *

Ovadia Yosef Ovadia Yosef ( he, , Ovadya Yosef, ; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodo ...

(1918 or 1920 – 2013), Iraqi-born former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel

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