Devereaux
Devereaux is a name of French origin. It is a misspelling of the original surname Devereux based on the common English mis-pronunciation "Devero". Notable people with the surname include:
- Boyd Devereaux (born 1978), Canadian hockey player
- Ed Devereaux (1925–2003), Australian actor
- Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester (born 1917), British female spy
- James P.S. Devereaux, American military officer and U.S. Congressman
- Lillie Devereux Blake, American feminist
- Maurice Devereaux, Canadian director
- Mike Devereaux (born 1963), American baseball player
- Yvette Devereaux, America conductor
- Stacie Devereaux (born 1986), curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Tricia Devereaux (born 1975), stage name of an American former pornographic actress
- Minnie Devereaux (1891–1984), Canadian silent film actress nicknamed "Indian Minnie" and "Minnie Ha-ha"
- Lollie Alexi Devereaux (born 1981), Vancouver, BC based French actress, opera singer, dancer and writer
People with the given name Devereaux include:
- Devereaux Mytton (1924–1989), Australian competitive sailor and Olympic medalist
- Devereaux Peters (born 1989), American basketball player
- Steven Peter Devereux Smith, (born 1989), Australian cricket player.
Fictional people:
- Blanche Devereaux, character on The Golden Girls
- Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, character on "The Goonies"* Dominique Deveraux, character on Dynasty
- Devereaux sisters, from Dark Hunter Series* Jeannette Deveraux, Wing Commander character
- Luc Deveraux, the protagonist of the Universal Soldier film series
- Matt Devereaux, played by Spencer Tracy as patriarch of the Devereaux family in the 1954 film, Broken Lance
- Nicholas Devereaux, Princess Mia's lover in Princess Diaries 2
- Rupert Devereaux, fictional British Prime Minister in the Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Sophie Devereaux, character on Leverage
- Sophie Devereaux, character on The Originals
- The Deveraux family, on the television series Days of Our Lives
- Father Tim Devereaux, character on Irish television series Glenroe
See also
- Devereaux, New Brunswick
- Devereaux Elementary School
- Harley Ellis Devereaux, American architectural firm
- Yoko Devereaux, clothing brand
- Deveaux
- Devereux
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