Avery (surname)
Avery is an English surname that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest, derived from the French surname Evreux from the county Evreux in Normandy. The name came from the Galician-Portuguese name Abreu. It can also be found in the northern Spanish region of Navarra, where the House of Évreux was a ruling royal house from 1328 to 1441. At the time,[1] the name's frequency was highest in Devon (5.9 times the British average), followed by Sussex, Buckinghamshire, Rutland, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Kent, Warwickshire, Cornwall and Somerset.
Notable people with the surname include:
Activism[]
- Byllye Avery, American health care activist
- Greg Avery, British animal rights activist
- Rachel Foster Avery, 19th century American suffragist
- Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894), American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer; mother-in-law of Rachel Foster Avery
Law and politics[]
- Bill Avery (born 1940), Nebraska politician and professor
- Brian Avery (activist), former volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement
- Carlos Avery (1868–1930), Minnesota newspaper publisher and politician
- Ephraim Kingsbury Avery, Methodist minister accused of an 1832 murder
- Isaac E. Avery, Colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
- James Avery (American colonist) (1620–1700), Connecticut colonist, legislator, and military commander
- John Avery (politician), physician and politician from Michigan
- John Keith Avery, former commissioner of the New South Wales police
- Oscar F. Avery (1841–1924), Illinois state senator and lawyer
- Steven Avery, American exonerated by DNA evidence for a crime
- Waightstill Avery, North Carolina's first attorney general and a colonel during the American Revolutionary War
- William H. Avery (politician) (1911–2009), former governor of Kansas
- William Tecumsah Avery (1819–1880), former member of the United States House of Representatives
Literature[]
- Catharine Hitchcock Tilden Avery (1844–1911), American author, editor, educator
- Fiona Avery, comic book and television writer
- George Avery, American professor of German Studies
- Gillian Avery, British children's writer and scholar
- Harold Avery, British author of children's literature
- Tom Avery, explorer, mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker
- Valeen Tippetts Avery, American biographer and historian
Performance and music[]
- Brad Avery, guitarist for the rock band Third Day
- Eric Avery, original bass player for Jane's Addiction
- Jack Avery, member of the American pop band Why Don't We
- James Avery (actor) (1945–2013), American actor known for playing "Uncle Phil" on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- James Avery (musician) (1937–2009), American and German pianist and conductor
- Margaret Avery, American singer and actress
- Patricia Avery (1902–1973), American silent film actress
- Phyllis Avery, American actress
- Shondrella Avery, American actress
- Val Avery (1924–2009), American actor
Science and engineering[]
- Clarence W. Avery, engineer at Ford Motor Company
- John Scales Avery, theoretical chemist and peace activist
- Oswald Avery, physician and scientist
- R. Stanton Avery, (1907–1997), American inventor, created self-adhesive labels, founded Avery Dennison Corporation.
- Robert Hanneman Avery, founded the Avery Company, an American farm tractor, truck and automobile manufacturer.
- William H. Avery (engineer), aeronautics engineer
Sports[]
- Albert Avery, English rugby league footballer
- Donnie Avery (born 1984), American football player
- Genard Avery (born 1995), American football player
- George Avery Young (1866–1900), English sportsman who played rugby and cricket
- Gordon George Avery (1925–2006), Australian track and field athlete
- James Avery (baseball) (born 1984) Canadian baseball player
- Jim Avery (born 1944), American football player
- John Avery (Canadian football), Canadian football player
- Ryan Avery (lacrosse), former lacrosse player
- Sean Avery, professional hockey player
- Steve Avery, former Major League Baseball pitcher
- William Avery (basketball), professional basketball player
- Xavier Avery (born 1990), American baseball player
Visual arts[]
- Milton Avery, American Modernist painter
- Tex Avery, animator and director; creator of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
Other[]
- Bryan Avery, British architect
- Cyrus Avery, American highway commissioner
- Henry Every (or Avery), 17th-century pirate
- James Avery (Medal of Honor), (1825–1898) Union Navy seaman and recipient of the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War
- Peter Avery, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
- R. Stanton Avery, founder of Avery Dennison Corporation and namesake of Caltech's Avery House
- Sewell Avery, U.S. businessman
- William Beilby Avery (1854–1908), philatelist
Fictional characters[]
- Jackson Avery, in the TV series Grey's Anatomy, or his grandfather, Harper Avery
- Avery, a minor Death Eater in the Harry Potter series
- Bree Avery, protagonist of the lonelygirl15 Internet video series
- Rupert Avery, a main character in The Serpentwar Saga
- Shug Avery, one of the main characters in the 1983 novel The Color Purple
See also[]
- Justice Avery (disambiguation)
- Averin (surname) (Аверины), a Russian surname
- Every (surname)
References[]
- ^ "Avery Meaning and Distribution". Forebears. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
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