Reeve

Reeve may refer to:

• High-reeve, a title taken by some English magnates during the 10th and 11th centuries
• Reeve (England), an official elected annually by the serfs to supervise lands for a lord
• Reeve (Canada), an elected chief executive in counties
• Shire reeve, an office position that originated the term Sheriff
• Vogt, an official in many European countries, often translated reeve
• Reeve Tuesti, a fictional character from the video game Final Fantasy VII
• "Reeve", a song by Nick Hinton
• "The Reeve's Prologue and Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Bird

• A female Ruff (bird)

Surname

• Ada Reeve (1874–1966), English actress
• Arthur B. Reeve (1880–1936), American author
• Arthur Stretton Reeve (1907–1981), Bishop of Lichfield
• Arthur W.V. Reeve (1913 – c. 1994), Scouting New Zealand notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1979
• Birdie Reeve Kay (1907–1996), American champion typist
• C. D. C. Reeve (born 1948), American philosopher
• Cheryl Reeve, American basketball head coach
• Chris Reeve (born 1953), American knife maker
• Christopher Reeve (1952–2004), actor, director, producer and writer
• Clara Reeve (1729–1807), English novelist
• Dana Reeve (1961–2006), actress, singer and activist
• Dermot Reeve (born 1963), former English cricketer
• Ella Reeve Bloor (1862–1951), American labor organizer and activist
• F.D. Reeve (born 1928), American poet
• Geoffrey Reeve (1932–2010), British movie director and producer
• Henry Reeve (journalist) (1813–1895), English journalist
• Henry Reeve (soldier) (1850–1876), Brigadier General in Cuba's 'Ejército Libertador'
• Isaac Van Duzen Reeve (1813–1890), soldier in the United States Army
• James H. Reeve, UK broadcaster, journalist, raconteur and radio phone-in host
• Jill Reeve (born 1969), former American field hockey defender
• Joel Reeve (1901–1988), pseudonym of American author William Robert Cox
• John Reeve (1608–1658), English prophet and author
• John Reeve (businessman), British CEO of Willis Group Holdings
• John Reeve Lavell (1857–1925), lawyer and political figure in Ontario
• John N. Reeve, American microbiologist
• Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865), malacologist
• Martin Reeve, British actor
• Paul Reeve, British record producer
• Philip Reeve (born 1966), British author and illustrator
• Robert Campbell Reeve (1902–1980), founder of Reeve Aleutian Airlines
• Sally Reeve (born 1971), British actress
• Simon Reeve
• Stephanie Reeve, English actress
• Sue Reeve (born 1951), English long jumper
• Tapping Reeve (1744–1823), American lawyer and law educator
• Ted Reeve (1902–1983), multi-sport Canadian athlete and sports journalist
• Thomas Reeve (1673–1737), British justice
• William Reeve (1757–1815), English theatre composer and organist
• William Day Reeve (1844–1925), Anglican priest

Places

United States

• Reeve, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

See also

• Reeves (disambiguation)
• Grieve