Paul O'Dea (July 3, 1920 – December 11, 1978) was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio and alumnus of Case Western Reserve University, O'Dea began his professional career with the Fargo-Moorhead Twins in 1938.

[1] Despite the injury, he remained in the Indians organization the next four years, and made his major league debut on April 19, 1944.

[2] O'Dea spent the two full seasons with the 1944–1945 Indians; he was exempt from reporting to service for World War II due to his earlier eye injury.

He hit his only big-league home run off Don Black of the Philadelphia Athletics on May 19, 1945, in a 2–1 Cleveland victory at League Park.