Bevis

Bevis (sometimes spelled Beavis or Bevys) is a given name of Old French or Welsh origin, and can also refer to a variety of things:

Media and literature

• Beavis, character from MTV's Beavis and Butt-head
• "Mr. Bevis", an episode of The Twilight Zone
• Bevis of Hampton, an English metrical romance
• Sir Bevis, from the Red Book of Romance, edited by Andrew Lang
• Bevis, the Story of a Boy a boy's adventure story (1882) by Richard Jefferies
• Bevis, the name of the lumberjack in Monty Python's "The Lumberjack Song"

Places

• Bevis Marks, a street in the City of London
• Bevis Marks Synagogue, the oldest functioning synagogue in the United Kingdom, situated in a courtyard off the above street

People

• Andrew Bevis, an Australian actor
• Arch Bevis, Australian Politician
• Fred Beavis, 57th mayor of Toronto
• John Bevis, an 18th-century English astronomer
• Leslie Bevis, an American actress
• PJ Bevis, professional baseball player
• Roy Bevis (also known as Roy Knight), an English wrestler
• Bevis Hillier, art historian and biographer of Sir John Betjeman
• Bevis Longstreth, novelist and former Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Other

• The Bevis, a sailing vessel carrying passengers from England to the British colonies in America between 1635 and 1638
• The Bevis Frond, an indie band from London, England
• Sir Bevys, a British thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1879 Epsom Derby