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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