Beverly (name)
Beverly or Beverley is a given name and surname. It is derived from an English surname, which was in turn taken from the place name Beverley. The place name derives from Old English, combining befer (beaver) and leah (clearing).
It was at one time a common masculine given name, but is now almost exclusively a feminine name due to the popularity of a 1904 novel, Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon.[1]
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Beverly Adams (born 1945), Canadian-American actress and author
- Beverly Allen (born 1945), Australian botanical artist
- Beverley Allitt (born 1968), British serial killer of children
- Beverley Badenhorst, South African politician
- Beverley Bass (born c. 1951), American pilot
- Beverly Bayne (1894–1982), American actress
- Beverley "Bev" Bevan (born 1944), English rock musician
- Beverly Boys (born 1951), Canadian diver
- Beverly Briley (1914–1980), mayor of Nashville, Tennessee (1963–1975)
- Beverly Caimen (born 1994), stage name Beverly, Filipino pop singer in Japan
- Beverley Cochrane Cayley (1898–1928), Canadian lawyer and mountaineer
- Beverly Cleary (1916–2021), American children's author
- Beverley Cressman, British actress
- Beverly M. Emerson, American biochemist
- Beverly Baker Fleitz (born 1930), American tennis player
- Beverly Thomas Galloway (1863–1938), American plant pathologist
- Beverly Garland (1926–2008), American actress
- Beverly Garlick (born 1944), Australian architect
- Beverley Goddard (born 1956), former British sprinter
- Beverley Goodway (1943–2012), British glamour photographer
- Beverley Harper (1943–2002), Australian author of novels set in Africa
- Beverly Johnson (born 1952), American supermodel
- Beverley Knight (born 1973), English soul and R&B singer-songwriter
- Beverley Randolph Mason (1834–1910), American educator
- Beverly McClellan (1969–2018), American singer, contestant in the first season of the American TV series The Voice
- Beverley McLachlin (born 1943), Canadian jurist and 17th Chief Justice of Canada
- Beverley Mitchell (born 1981), American actress and country music singer
- Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), English author
- Beverley Randolph (1754–1797), eighth governor of Virginia
- Beverley Shenstone (1906-1979), Canadian aerodynamicist
- Beverly Sills (1929–2007), American operatic soprano
- Beverly Washburn (born 1943), American actress
- Beverly Watkins (1939–2019), American blues guitarist
Surname
- Charles Beverly, American baseball player
- Charles James Beverley (1788–1868), British Naval surgeon, FRS.
- Cliff Beverley (born 1977), former New Zealand Rugby League player
- Frankie Beverly (born 1946), American soul/funk singer-songwriter
- Gerald Beverly, (born 1993) American basketball player
- Harry Beverley (rugby league, born 1907), rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 1940s
- Harry Beverley (rugby league, born 1947), rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s
- Hattie Beverly, (1874–1904) African-American school teacher
- Henry Roxby Beverley (1790–1863), English actor
- James R. Beverley (1894–1967), United States lawyer
- Jo Beverley (1947–2016), British novelist
- Nick Beverley (born 1947), former Canadian National Hockey League player and head coach
- Patrick Beverley (born 1988), American basketball player
- Peter Beverley (c. 1668 – 1728), Virginia colonial politician, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses
- Robert Beverley Jr. (1673–1722), American historian
- Trazana Beverley, American actress
- William Beverley (1696–1756), American legislator, civil servant, planter, and landowner
Fictional characters
- Beverly Bighead, one of the supporting characters in Rocko's Modern Life
- Beverly Crusher, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and related media
- Beverly Harris, in the sitcom Roseanne
- Beverly Hope, a recurring character in the television series American Horror Story: Cult, played by Adina Porter
- Beverly Katz, in the novel Red Dragon and the TV series Hannibal
- Beverley Leslie, a recurring character (Karen Walker's frenemy) in the sitcom Will and Grace
- Beverly Mantle, one of the identical twin main characters of the movie Dead Ringers, both played by Jeremy Irons
- Beverly Marsh, the only female member of the loser's club in Stephen King's novel It
- Beverly Marshall, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Beverly Moss, the central character of Mike Leigh's television play Abigail's Party
- Beverly Weston, in the play August: Osage County
- Beverley Carlton, a character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner, based on Noël Coward
- "B", real name Beverly, from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
References
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1979). American Given Names: Their Origin and History in the Context of the English Language. Oxford University Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780195024654.
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