Laverne (name)

Laverne

Gender	Unisex
Language(s)	English
Other names
Variant form(s)	LaVern, LaVerne

Laverne or La Verne is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• LaVerne Andrews (1911–1967), American singer of the Andrews Sisters singing trio
• Laverne Cox (born 1972), American actress and LGBT advocate
• Laverne Harding (1905–1984), American cartoon animator
• LaVerne Jones-Ferrette (born 1981), sprinter from the U.S. Virgin Islands
• LaVerne E. Ragster (born 1951), U.S. Virgin Islands marine biologist and academic administrator
• Laverne Smith (born 1954), American football player
• Harry Laverne Anderson (1952–2018), American actor

Surname

• Andy LaVerne (born 1947), American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
• Marc Chirik (1907–1990), also known as Marc Laverne, Communist revolutionary and one of the founding militants of the International Communist Current
• Lauren Laverne (born 1978), English disc jockey and television presenter
• Lucille La Verne (1872–1945), American actress
• Pattie Laverne (died 1916), English singer and actress
• Thomas Laverne (1917–1994), New York state senator

Fictional characters

• LaVerne, a character in Stephen King's The Raft (short story) and its adaptation in Creepshow 2
• Laverne De Fazio, of the television series Laverne & Shirley
• Laverne Roberts, a nurse on the television series Scrubs
• Laverne Todd, a nurse on the television series Empty Nest
• One of the characters in the television show The Cher Show
• One of the player characters in the adventure game Day of the Tentacle
• Laverne (gargoyle), one of the supporting characters from Disney's 1996 animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Julie LaVerne, a character in the film Show Boat (1951), played by Ava Gardner
• Judith Laverne Hopps, the full name of Judy Hopps, the main protagonist from Disney's animated film, Zootopia
• Judge Laverne Holt, a character in the television show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

See also

• Lavern