Laverne or La Verne is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
Laverne Andrews (1911–1967), one of The Andrews Sisters singing group
Laverne Cox (born 1984), American actress and LGBT advocate
Laverne Harding (1905–1984), American cartoon animator
LaVerne Jones-Ferrette (born 1981), sprinter from the U.S. Virgin Islands
Laverne Smith (born 1954), American football player
Surname:
Andy LaVerne (born 1947), American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
Marc Chirik (1907–1990), also known as Marc Laverne, Communist revolutionary and one of the founding militants of the International Communist Current
Lauren Laverne (born 1978), English disc jockey and television presenter
Lucille La Verne (1872–1945), American actress
Thomas Laverne (1917–1994), New York state senator
Fictional characters:
Laverne De Fazio, of the television series Laverne & Shirley
Laverne Roberts, a nurse on the television series Scrubs
Laverne Todd, a nurse on the television series Empty Nest
One of the characters in the television show The Cher Show
One of the player characters in the adventure game Day of the Tentacle
Laverne (gargoyle), one of the supporting characters from Disney's 1996 animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Julie LaVerne, a character in the film Show Boat (1951), played by Ava Gardner .
Judith Laverne Hopps, is the fullname of Judy Hopps. A bunny cop character from Zootopia movie.
