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 (born 1953), English music educator and composer
• Avril Angers (1918–2005), English comedian
• Avril Benoît, Canadian broadcaster
• Avril Bowring (born 1942), English sprinter
• Kim Campbell (born 1947), Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister
• Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903–1998), English pianist, conductor, and composer
• Avril Dankworth (1922–2013), English music educator
• Avril de Sainte-Croix (1855–1939), French author, journalist, feminist, and pacifist
• Avril Doyle (born 1949), Irish politician
• Avril Elgar (1932–2021), English stage, radio and television actress
• Avril Fahey (born 1974), Australian cricketer
• Avril (Frédéric Magnon) (born 1974), French electro-ambient musician
• Avril Haines (born 1969), American lawyer, first female Director of National Intelligence
• Avril Henry (1935–2016), English activist
• Avril Hoare, Irish radio personality
• Avril Joy, British author
• Avril Lavigne (born 1984), Canadian singer-songwriter
• Avril Lennox (born 1956), British gymnast
• Avril Lovelace-Johnson, Ghanaian jurist
• Avril Malan (born 1937), South African rugby union player
• Avril Palmer-Baunack (born 1964), British businesswoman
• Avril Phali (born 1978), South African football player
• Avril Pyman (born 1930), British scholar and Russian literature translator
• Avril (singer) (born 1986), Kenyan singer-songwriter, actress, and entertainer
• Avril Starling (born 1953), English cricketer
• Avril Walker (born 1954), British luger
• Avril Williams (born 1961), South African rugby player

Surname

• Cliff Avril (born 1986), American football player
• Édouard-Henri Avril or his pseudonym Paul Avril (1849–1928), French painter
• Étienne Avril (1748–1791), French furniture designer
• Jacky Avril (born 1964), French slalom canoer
• Jane Avril (1868–1943), French dancer
• Margaux Avril (born 1991), French singer
• Philippe Avril (1654–1698?), French explorer
• Prosper Avril (born 1937), Haitian politician
• Yola d'Avril (1906–1984), 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

See also

• All pages with titles containing Avril
• Abril
• April (given name)
• April (surname)
• Averell
• Averill (disambiguation)
• Avril (disambiguation)
• Averil