Arts and entertainment
* ''Vanessa'' (Millais painting), an 1868 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais * ''Vanessa'', a 1933 novel by Hugh Walpole * ''Vanessa'', a 1952 instrumental song written byPeople
* Vanessa (name), a female given name and list of persons named Vanessa * Esther Vanhomrigh, for whom Jonathan Swift coined the nameFictional characters
* Vanessa (''King of Fighters''), a character in SNK Playmore's ''The King of Fighters'' video game series * Vanessa (''Symphogear''), a character in the anime series ''Symphogear'' * Vanessa, a character in the Nickelodeon sitcom '' Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide'' * Vanessa, the alias of Disney's ''The Little Mermaid'' character Ursula in the 1989 film * Vanessa, daughter of Heinz Doofenshmirtz from '' Phineas and Ferb'' an animated show premiered in 2007 * Vanessa Geraldine Carlysle, known as Copycat in Marvel Comics and the 2016 film ''Deadpool'' * Vanessa Lewis, in the Japanese video game series ''Virtua Fighter'' * Vanessa Woodfield, in the British television series ''Emmerdale'' *Vanessa Taylor, long-lost daughter of Maggie Lockwood-Campbell of '' Chicago Med'' who debuted in its sixth season.Other
* ''Vanessa'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies * Vanessa, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada * , the name of more than one ship of the British Royal NavySee also
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