Osip (; ), also spelled Ossip or Osyp, is a Russian and Ukrainian male given name, a variant of the name Joseph. Notable people with the name include:
- Osip Abdulov (1900âÂÂ1953), Soviet actor
- Osip Aptekman, Russian revolutionary
- Ossip Bernstein (1882âÂÂ1962), Ukrainian-French chess player
- Osip Bilchansky (1858âÂÂ1879), Russian terrorist hanged for using a gun to resist arrest
- Osip Bodyansky (1808âÂÂ1877), Russian Imperial Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent
- Osip Braz (1873âÂÂ1936), Russian-Jewish realist painter
- Osip Brik, Russian writer and literary critic, a futurist
- Osip Dymov (writer), pseudonym for Yosif (Osip) Isidorovich Perelman (1878-1959), Russian writer
- Osip Gelfond (1868âÂÂ1942), Russian physician and Marxist philosopher
- Osip Komissarov, hatter's apprentice famous for thwarting the assassination of Alexander II of Russia
- Osip Kozodavlev (1754âÂÂ1819), Russian statesman, politician and Minister of the Interior
- Osyp Kurylas (1870âÂÂ1951), Ukrainian painter
- Osyp Lebedowicz, American Magic: The Gathering player
- Osip Mikhailovich Lerner (1847âÂÂ1907), also known as Y. Y. (Yosef Yehuda) Lerner, a 19th-century Russian Jewish intellectual, writer and critic
- Osyp Makovei (1867âÂÂ1925), Ukrainian writer and translator
- Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet
- Osip Minor (1861âÂÂ1932), Russian revolutionary and member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party
- Osip Notovich, Russian author, journalist and publisher
- Osip Petrov (1806âÂÂ1878), Russian operatic bass-baritone
- Osip Piatnitsky (1882âÂÂ1938), Russian revolutionary
- Osip Senkovsky, Polish-Russian journalist
- Osip Sorokhtei (1890âÂÂ1941), Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, caricaturist and art teacher
- Osip Startsev (17th century â not earlier than 1714), Russian architect
- Osyp Shpytko, Ukrainian and Brazilian writer
- Osip Ivanovich Somov (1815âÂÂ1876), Russian mathematician
- Osyp Turiansky (1880âÂÂ1933), Ukrainian writer
- Osip Yermansky (1867âÂÂ1941), Russian economist
See also
- oSIP, a free software library for VoIP applications implementing lower layers of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
- Osip Dymov, central fictional character in the classic Russian story "The Grasshopper" (1892) by Anton Chekhov
- Osipov / Osipova (feminine) / Ossipoff