List of Famous people named Ava

Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on Selma (2014), DuVernay became the first black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and also the first black female director to have her film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2017, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her film 13th (2016).

Ava Michelle Cota is an American actress, dancer, singer and model. She is best known for her role as the character Jodi Kreyman in the Netflix comedy, Tall Girl. She is also well known from the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh seasons of Dance Moms, as well as being a member of the Select Ensemble team in season four for a short time.

Amanda Ava Koci, known professionally as Ava Max, is an American singer and songwriter. After moving across several states to pursue a music career during her childhood, Max signed with Atlantic Records in 2016, where she released the song "Sweet but Psycho" in August 2018. It became her breakthrough single after peaking at number one in 22 countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, and New Zealand. The song also peaked at number two in Australia, and number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Max released her debut studio album Heaven & Hell on September 18, 2020.

Ava Cherry is an American singer and model best known for her relationship and collaboration with David Bowie between 1972 and 1975. The two met in New York City when she was a nightclub waitress and Bowie was touring for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars; afterwards, they began a period of personal and artistic collaboration that heavily influenced the Young Americans "blue-eyed soul" era. Intending to sing with him on a tour of Japan in the early 1970s, the tour's cancellation almost ended their relationship, but they reunited and continued working together.

Ava Liu Yu-Kiu is a Hong Kong singer, actress and television host.