Ovadia or Ovadya is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: * Dvira Ovadia (born 1979), Israeli television personality and interior designer * Moni Ovadia (born 1946), Italian actor, musician, singer, and theatrical author * Estreya Haim Ovadya (1922–1944), Jewish Yugoslav partisan * Robert Ovadia, Australian reporter * Ovadia Eli (born 1945), Israeli politician * Ovadia Hedaya (1889–1969), Israeli rabbi *

Ovadia Yosef Ovadia Yosef (, ; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) also known as Maran (Hebrew language, Hebrew: מרן) "Our Master", was an History of the Jews in Iraq#Otoman rule, Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, hakham, posek, and the Sephardi Jews, Sephar ...

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

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