Taverner (surname)

Taverner is an English-language occupational surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * John le Taverner (fl. 1295–1313), MP for Bristol
 * John Taverner (c. 1490–1545), Renaissance English composer
 * John Tavener (1944–2013), English composer
 * Richard Taverner (1505–1575), author of Taverner's Bible, a 16th-century translation of the Bible
 * Percy A. Taverner (1875–1947), Canadian ornithologist
 * William J. Taverner, American sex educator

Fictional characters

 * Jason Taverner, the main character in Philip K. Dick's novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said