Ventress is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
James Alexander Ventress (1805–1867), lawyer, inventor, plantation owner, and state legislator in Mississippi Peter Ventress (born 1960), British businessman W. P. S. Ventress (1854–1911), American politician
See also PC Alf Ventress, a character in Heartbeat (British TV series) Asajj Ventress, a fictional character in Star Wars Ventress, Louisiana, a town in the United States Ventress Correctional Facility, in Alabama