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), American singer of the Andrews Sisters singing trio
 * Laverne Cox (born 1972), 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 E. Ragster (born 1951), U.S. Virgin Islands marine biologist and academic administrator
 * Laverne Smith (born 1954), American football player
 * Harry Laverne Anderson (1952–2018), 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
 * Pattie Laverne (died 1916), English singer and 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, the full name of Judy Hopps, the main protagonist from Disney's animated film, Zootopia
 * Judge Laverne Holt, a character in the television show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine