Laverne (name)
Laverne or La Verne is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- LaVerne Andrews, American singer of the Andrews Sisters singing trio
- Laverne Brackens, American quilt maker
- Laverne Cox, American actress and LGBT advocate
- Verne Gagne, American amateur and professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter
- Laverne Harding, American cartoon animator
- LaVerne Jones-Ferrette, sprinter from the U.S. Virgin Islands
- LaVerne E. Ragster, U.S. Virgin Islands marine biologist and academic administrator
- Laverne Smith, American football player
- Harry Laverne Anderson, American actor
Surname
- Andy LaVerne, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
- Marc Chirik, also known as Marc Laverne, Communist revolutionary and one of the founding militants of the International Communist Current
- Lauren Laverne, English disc jockey and television presenter
- Lucille La Verne, American actress
- Pattie Laverne, English singer and actress
- Thomas Laverne, New York state senator
Fictional characters
- LaVerne, a character in Stephen King's The Raft (short story) and its adaptation in Creepshow 2
- 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, 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, 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''