Avery (surname)

Avery is an English surname of ambiguous origin. Some scholars believe that the name is of Anglo-Norman origin and derived from "Every" or "Evreux". The name may have arrived in England after the Norman Conquest. It is the name of a county in Normandy. It can also be found in the northern Spanish region of Navarra, where the House of Évreux was a ruling royal house from 1328 to 1441. At the time of the ^[1], its frequency was highest in Devon (5.9 times the British average), followed by Sussex, Buckinghamshire, Rutland, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Kent, Warwickshire, Cornwall and Somerset.

In acting:

Brian Avery, American actor known for playing Carl Smith in The Graduate
James L. Avery, Sr., American actor known for playing "Uncle Phil" on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Margaret Avery, American singer and actress
Phyllis Avery, American actress
Shondrella Avery, American actress
Stephen Morehouse Avery, screenwriter

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In law:

Brian Avery, former volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement
Jack Avery, the former Attorney General of the Guam
John Keith Avery, the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police from 1984 to 1991
Steven Avery, the first person in the U.S. to be charged with a homicide after being exonerated by DNA evidence for a previous crime

In activism:

Byllye Avery, American health care activist
Greg Avery, British animal rights activist and co-founder of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the late 19th century

In politics:

Ephraim Kingsbury Avery, Methodist minister accused of the 1832 murder of Sarah Cornell and acquitted in 1833 for lack of evidence
Isaac E. Avery, grandson of Waightstill Avery and a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
John Avery, physician and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan
Waightstill Avery, North Carolina's first Attorney General and colonel during the American Revolutionary War
William H. Avery (1911-2009), former Governor of Kansas

In literature:

Fiona Avery, comic book and television writer
Gillian Avery, British children’s writer and scholar
Harold Avery, British author of children's literature
Tom Avery, explorer, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker
Valeen Tippetts Avery, American biographer and historian known for her work on American Old West and Latter Day Saint history

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