Octavia

Octavia may refer to:

People

• Octavia (given name)

Ancient Rome

• Octavia the Elder (before 66 – after 29 BC), elder half sister of Octavia the Younger and Augustus/Octavian
• Octavia the Younger (c.66–11 BC), sister of Augustus, younger half sister of Octavia the Elder and fourth wife of Mark Antony.
• Claudia Octavia (AD 39–AD 62), daughter of Claudius and Valeria Messalina and first wife of Nero

Post-Ancient Rome

• Octavia (early 20th century), the name taken by Mabel Barltrop of the Panacea Society in 1918
• Octahvia (fl. 1980s), American vocalist
• Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), African-American science fiction writer
• Octavia Hall Smillie (1889–1970), American dietitian
• Oktawia Kawęcka (born 1985), jazz musician, singer, flutist, composer, producer and actress
• Octavia Spencer (born 1972), actress

Culture

• Octavia (play), a tragedy mistakenly attributed to the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger that dramatises Claudia Octavia's death
• Octavia (opera), by Reinhard Keiser
• Octavia, a romance by Jilly Cooper
  • Octavia (TV serial), an ITV adaptation of Cooper's novel, written by Jonathan Harvey
• Octavia (film), a 1984 American film

Fictional characters

• Octavia (She-Ra), a character from the animated series She-Ra: Princess of Power by Larry DiTillio and J. Michael Straczynski and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power by ND Stevenson
• Octavia of the Julii, a character in HBO's television series Rome loosely based on Octavia Minor
• Octavia, Kielian snake in the book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky
• Octavia Blake, a character portrayed in the book series The 100 by Kass Morgan
  • Octavia Blake, a character in the television adaptation of Morgan's series, The 100, by Jason Rothenberg
• Octavia Melody, a character from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
• Octavia, a character in the adult animated web-series Helluva Boss
• Agent Octavia, a character from Odd Squad

Others

• Octavia (gens), a clan which the Roman emperor Augustus, his family and his male-line ancestors originated from
• Škoda Octavia, the name of mid-size family car introduced by the Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto
• Octavia Sperati, a doom metal band
• Octavia Boulevard, a street in San Francisco, California
• Octavia (band), a Bolivian band
• "Octavia", a song by Bruce Dickinson from the album Skunkworks
• 598 Octavia, an asteroid
• Octavia (effects pedal), developed originally for Jimi Hendrix
• Octavia, Nebraska, a village in Nebraska, USA
• Octavia, Oklahoma
• Octavia (plant genus), a former plant genus in the family Rubiaceae
• HMS Octavia