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

Middle Name

• Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018) American Actor

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
• Judith Laverne Hopps, is the full name of Judy Hopps, the rabbit cop character from Disney's animated film, Zootopia