Travers (surname)

Travers is an English and Irish surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Allan Travers (1892–1968), Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Ben Travers (1886–1980), English writer
 * Bill Travers (1922–1994), English actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist
 * Bill Travers (baseball) (born 1952), former Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Dan Travers (born 1956), Scottish badminton player
 * David Travers, South Australian corporate advisor and former senior public servant
 * Dow Travers (born 1987), Caymanian athlete
 * Emily Travers, New Zealand cricketer
 * Francis Travers, English cricketer
 * George Travers (1888–1946), English footballer and FA Cup winner with Barnsley F.C.
 * George Travers (rugby player) (1877–1945), Welsh international rugby union player
 * Henry Travers (1874–1965), English actor
 * James Travers (1820–1884), Anglo-Irish recipient of the Victorian Cross
 * Jerome Travers (1887–1951), American amateur golfer
 * Joe Travers (1871–1942), Australian cricketer
 * John Travers (actor) (born 1989), Irish actor
 * John Travers (composer) (1703–1758), English composer
 * John Raymond Travers (born 1967), Australian convicted of the 1986 murder of Anita Cobby
 * Lily Travers, British actress and model
 * Linden Travers (1913–2001), British actress
 * Mark Travers (born 1999), Irish footballer
 * Mary Travers (1936–2009), American singer; member of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary
 * Mary Travers (journalist) (born 1958), American television journalist
 * Mary Rose-Anna Travers (1894–1941), Québécoise singer known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc
 * Morris Travers (1872–1961), English chemist
 * P. L. Travers (1899–1996), Australian author best known for Mary Poppins
 * Paddy Travers (1883–1962), Scottish footballer and manager
 * Pat Travers (born 1954), Canadian rock guitarist and singer
 * Peter Travers, American film critic
 * Susan Travers (1909–2003), English soldier and adventurer who served with the French Foreign Legion
 * Thomas Otho Travers (1785–1844), Irish soldier, friend and aide-de-camp to Sir Stamford Rafffles
 * Walter Travers (1548?–1635), English Puritan theologian
 * William Travers (New Zealand politician) (1819–1903), New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist
 * William R. Travers (1819–1887), American lawyer and investor

Fictional characters include:


 * Angela Travers, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
 * Boyd Travers, protagonist in the computer game Medal of Honor: Airborne
 * Cody Travers, lead character in the Final Fight video games
 * Dahlia Travers, known as Aunt Dahlia in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
 * Kyle Travers, Cody's brother and protagonist in the video game Final Fight: Streetwise
 * Quentin Travers, a member of the Watchers' Council in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series
 * Torquil Travers, a member of the Pure-blood Travers family from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
 * Richard Travers, a character played by Rex Linn in the 1993 film Cliffhanger