Travers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Allan Travers (1892–1968), Major League Baseball pitcher
Ben Travers (1886–1980), English writer
Bill Travers (1922–1994), English actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist
Bill Travers (baseball) (born 1952), former Major League Baseball pitcher
David Travers, South Australian corporate advisor and former senior public servant
Dow Travers (born 1987), Caymanian athlete
George Travers (1888–1946), English footballer and FA Cup winner with Barnsley F.C.
George Travers (rugby player) (1877–1945), Welsh international rugby union player
Henry Travers (1874–1965), English actor
James Travers (1820–1884), Anglo-Irish recipient of the Victorian Cross
Jerome Travers (1887–1951), American amateur golfer
Joe Travers (1871–1942), Australian cricketer
John Travers (actor) (born 1989), Irish actor
John Travers (composer) (1703–1758), English composer
John Raymond Travers (born 1967), Australian convicted of the 1986 murder of Anita Cobby
Linden Travers (1913–2001), British actress
Mary Rose-Anna Travers (1894–1941), Québécoise singer known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc
Mary Travers (journalist) (born 1958), American television journalist
Mary Travers (1936–2009), American singer; member of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary
Morris Travers (1872–1961), English chemist
P. L. Travers (1899–1996), Australian author best known for Mary Poppins
Paddy Travers (1883–1962), Scottish footballer and manager
Pat Travers (born 1954), Canadian rock guitarist and singer
Peter Travers, American film critic
Sarah Travers (born 1974), Northern Irish journalist
Susan Travers (1909–2003), English soldier and adventurer who served with the French Foreign Legion
Thomas Otho Travers (1785–1844), Irish soldier, friend and aide-de-camp to Sir Stamford Rafffles
Walter Travers (1548?–1635), English Puritan theologian
William Travers (politician) (1819–1903), New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist
William R. Travers (1819–1887), American lawyer and investor
Fictional characters include:
Angela Travers, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
Boyd Travers, protagonist in the computer game Medal of Honor: Airborne
Cody Travers, lead character in the Final Fight video games
Dahlia Travers, known as Aunt Dahlia in P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
Kyle Travers, Cody's brother and protagonist in the video game Final Fight:Streetwise
Quentin Travers, a member of the Watchers' Council in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series