Melissus may refer to:
People Melissus of Samos (fl. c. 500 BC), Greek philosopher Melissus of Thebes, Greek athlete contrasted to Orion by Pindar Gaius Maecenas Melissus (fl. early 1st century AD), Roman writer Paulus Melissus (1539–1602), humanist Neo-Latin writer, translator and composer
Mythological figures Melisseus (or Melissus), father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus on Crete Melissus, father of Actaeon - see Archias of Corinth
See also Melissaeus Melisseus