Avril (name)
Avril is used as a given name and a surname. Measured by absolute frequency, it most often occurs in France, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the United States.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Avril Anderson, English music educator and composer
- Avril Angers, English comedian
- Avril Benoît, Canadian broadcaster
- Avril Bowring, English sprinter
- Kim Campbell, Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister
- Avril Coleridge-Taylor, English pianist, conductor, and composer
- Avril Dankworth, English music educator
- Avril de Sainte-Croix, French author, journalist, feminist, and pacifist
- Avril Doyle, Irish politician
- Avril Elgar, English stage, radio and television actress
- Avril Fahey, Australian cricketer
- Avril (Frédéric Magnon), French electro-ambient musician
- Avril Haines, American lawyer, first female Director of National Intelligence
- Avril Henry, English activist
- Avril Hoare, Irish radio personality
- Avril Joy, British author
- Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Avril Lennox, British gymnast
- Avril Lovelace-Johnson, Ghanaian jurist
- Avril Malan, South African rugby union player
- Avril Palmer-Baunack, British businesswoman
- Avril Phali, South African football player
- Avril Pyman, British scholar and Russian literature translator
- Avril (singer), Kenyan singer-songwriter, actress, and entertainer
- Avril Starling, English cricketer
- Avril Walker, British luger
- Avril Williams, South African rugby player
Surname
- Armand Avril, French painter and sculptor
- Cliff Avril, American football player
- Édouard-Henri Avril or his pseudonym Paul Avril, French painter
- Étienne Avril, French furniture designer
- Jacky Avril, French slalom canoer
- Jane Avril, French dancer
- Margaux Avril, French singer
- Philippe Avril, French explorer
- Prosper Avril, Haitian politician
- Yola d'Avril, American actress
Fictional characters
- Avril Hodgkins, a character from the educational TV series How We Used to Live
- Avril Kent, character on Emmerdale
- Avril Incandenza, mother of protagonist Hal Incandenza in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Avril Vent Fleur, a playable character in ''Wild Arms 5''