Purvis
Purvis is a surname and occasionally a masculine given name which may refer to:
Surname
- Al Purvis, Canadian ice hockey player
- Arthur Blaikie Purvis, Canadian industrialist
- Bart Purvis, English footballer
- Bob Purvis, several people
- Charles Burleigh Purvis, physician and a co-founder of the medical school at Howard University
- Dawn Purvis, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
- Duane Purvis, All-American football player and track and field athlete
- Edward William Purvis, British officer and Hawaiian official
- Ella Maisy Purvis, English actress
- François Pervis, French track cyclist
- Gloria Purvis, African American Catholic media commentator, public scholar, whole life activist
- Harriet Forten Purvis, African-American abolitionist and suffragist
- Harriet Purvis, Jr., African-American abolitionist, suffragist and member of the temperance movement
- Hugh Purvis, United States Marine awarded the Medal of Honor
- Jack Purvis , British actor
- Jack Purvis , jazz musician
- James F. Purvis, American slave trader and banker
- Jeff Purvis, race car driver
- Jeremy Purvis, Scottish Member of Parliament
- Jim Purvis, American soccer player in the 1920s
- Jim Purvis , former English cricketer
- John Purvis
- Katharine Purvis, writer of "When the Saints Go Marching in"
- Melvin Purvis, FBI agent
- Neal Purvis, screenwriter
- Perrin H. Purvis American politician
- Richard Purvis, U. S. organist and composer
- Rosalie Purvis, Dutch-American theatre director
- Robert Purvis
- Ryan Purvis, National Football League player
- Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis, poet and abolitionist
- Stewart Purvis, CEO ITN, British news provider
- T G Purvis, marine artist
- Tom Purvis, painter, commercial poster artist
- William Purvis
- Xenobe Purvis, British novelist
Given name
- Purvis Short, American retired National Basketball Association player
- Purvis Young, African-American painter