LaRue

LaRue is a French topographic name for someone who lived beside a road, track, or pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’, ‘fold’), with the definite article la. It literally means "the street" in French. It is a surname and sometime a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

 * Achille Larue (1849–1922), French-Canadian politician
 * Allen Larue (born 1981), footballer from Seychelles
 * Bartell LaRue (1932–1990), American voice actor
 * Brent LaRue (born 1987), American-Slovenian athlete
 * Charles W. LaRue (1922–2006), American trombonist and jazz arranger
 * Chi Chi LaRue (born 1959), American pornographer
 * Christian LaRue, Canadian hockey coach
 * Custer LaRue (fl. 1983–present), American soprano
 * Danny La Rue (1927–2009), British entertainer born Daniel Patrick Carroll
 * Dave LaRue, American bass guitarist
 * D.C. LaRue (born 1948), American disco artist
 * Dennis LaRue (born 1959), American hockey referee
 * Étienne-Benoît Larue (1865–1935), French Catholic missionary
 * Eva LaRue (born 1966), American actress
 * Florence LaRue (born 1944), American actress
 * François-Xavier Larue (1763–1855), French-Canadian farmer and politician
 * Frank LaRue (born 1952), UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
 * Greg laRue (born 1956), pro titler reacher
 * Fred LaRue (1928–2004), aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon
 * Gerald A. Larue (1916–2014), American scholar of religion, former professor of gerontology, former minister, agnostic, archaeologist and humanist
 * Gillie Larew (1882–1977), American mathematician
 * Grace La Rue (1882–1956), American actress, singer and vaudeville star
 * Henri LaRue (1892–1973), French-Canadian politician
 * Jason LaRue (born 1974), American former Major League Baseball player
 * Jim LaRue (1925–2015), American football player and coach
 * Lash LaRue (1917–1996), American actor and star of westerns
 * Leonard LaRue (1914–2001), American freighter captain who rescued over 14,000 Korean War refugees, in the largest rescue operation by a single ship in history
 * Mitzy Larue, politician in Seychelles, first elected in 1993
 * Natalie LaRue, American musician
 * Perrault LaRue (1925–1987), French-Canadian politician
 * Phillip LaRue, American musician
 * Praxède Larue (1823–1902), French-Canadian physician and politician
 * Roger ‘Roc’ LaRue (1939-2019), American Rockabilly singer-songwriter, inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
 * Rusty LaRue (born 1973), American basketball coach and former National Basketball Association player
 * Stoney LaRue (born 1977), American country music singer-songwriter born Stoney Larue Phillips
 * Travis LaRue (1913–2009), former mayor of Austin, Texas
 * Vildebon-Winceslas Larue (1851–1906), French-Canadian politician
 * LaRue family, a family of American pioneers

Given name

 * LaRue Kirby (1889–1961), American Major League Baseball outfielder
 * LaRue Martin (born 1950), American former National Basketball Association player
 * LaRue Parker (1935–2011), former Chairperson of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma
 * La Rue Washington (born 1953), briefly a Major League Baseball player

Fictional characters

 * Clarisse LaRue, a character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
 * J.D. LaRue, on the television series Hill Street Blues, played by Kiel Martin
 * Larue Wilson, in the novel Gidget and on the television series Gidget
 * Adeline "Addie" LaRue, the main character of the novel The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab.