Travers (surname)

Travers

Origin
Languages	Anglo-Norman Old French Middle English (ME) Irish Gaelic
Word/name	travers (ME: toll or tolltaker on bridges, etc.) from traverser (Norman: to cross) Ó Treabhair (Irish: descendant of Treabhair; skillful)
Other names
Variant forms	Travis, Trevors, Travors, Trower, Trover, Trevir

Travers is an Irish and English surname. ^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Allan Travers (1892–1968), baseball pitcher
• Ben Travers (1886–1980), English writer
• Bill Travers (1922–1994), English actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist
• Bill Travers (baseball) (born 1952), baseball pitcher
• Dan Travers (born 1956), Scottish badminton player
• David Travers, Australian corporate advisor and public servant
• Dow Travers (born 1987), Caymanian athlete
• Emily Travers, New Zealand cricketer
• Francis Travers, English cricketer
• Frederick Dudley Travers (1897–?), English aviator
• George Travers (1888–1946), English footballer
• George Travers (rugby union) (1877–1945), Welsh rugby player
• Henry Travers (1874–1965), English actor
• Herbert Travers (1891–1958), British aviator
• James Travers (1820–1884), Anglo-Irish recipient of the Victorian Cross
• Jerome Travers (1887–1951), American golfer
• Joe Travers (1871–1942), Australian cricketer
• John Travers (actor) (born 1989), Irish actor
• John Travers (composer) (1703–1758), English composer
• John Raymond Travers (born 1967), Australian convicted of the 1986 murder of Anita Cobby
• Lily Travers, British actress and model
• Linden Travers (1913–2001), British actress
• Mark Travers (born 1999), Irish footballer
• Mary Travers (1936–2009), American singer; member of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary
• Mary Travers (journalist) (born 1958), American television journalist
• Mary Rose-Anna Travers (1894–1941), Québécoise singer known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc
• Morris Travers (1872–1961), English chemist
• P. L. Travers (1899–1996), Australian author, Mary Poppins
• Paddy Travers (1883–1962), Scottish footballer and manager
• Pat Travers (born 1954), Canadian rock guitarist and singer
• Peter Travers, American film critic
• Susan Travers (1909–2003), English soldier and adventurer who served with the French Foreign Legion
• Thomas Otho Travers (1785–1844), Irish soldier, friend and aide-de-camp to Sir Stamford Rafffles
• Walter Travers (1548?–1635), English Puritan theologian
• William Travers (New Zealand politician) (1819–1903), New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist
• William R. Travers (1819–1887), American lawyer and investor

Fictional characters include:

• Angela Travers, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
• Boyd Travers, protagonist in the computer game Medal of Honor: Airborne
• Cody Travers, lead character in the Final Fight video games
• Dahlia Travers, known as Aunt Dahlia, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
• Kyle Travers, Cody's brother and protagonist in the video game Final Fight: Streetwise
• Quentin Travers, a member of the Watchers' Council in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Torquil Travers, a member of the Pure-blood Travers family from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
• Richard Travers, a character played by Rex Linn in the 1993 film Cliffhanger
• President Michelle Travers, a character played by Kari Matchett in the Netflix series The Night Agent

References

1. Browne, W.A.F.; Reaney, P.H.; Wilson, R.M.; Scull, A. (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry. Routledge. p. 3148. ISBN   978-0-415-05737-0 . Retrieved 19 August 2018.