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"
Jonathan Devereaux "Double Jeopardy"
Ben & Violet Devereaux "The Skeleton Key"
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, Jane-Anne Devereaux and Monique Devereaux, characters on The Originals
The Deveraux family, on the television series Days of Our Lives
Father Tim Devereaux, character on Irish television series Glenroe
