Laverne (name)
Laverne or La Verne is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Laverne Andrews (1911–1967), one of The Andrews Sisters singing group
- Laverne Cox (born 1984), 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 Smith (born 1954), American football player
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
- Thomas Laverne (1917–1994), New York state senator
Fictional characters:
- 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 .
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