Jarvis

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Jarvis is a surname and, less frequently, a male given name.

It can refer to:

[edit] People

• Jarvis Cocker, English singer, musician and songwriter

• Jarvis, debut solo album by Jarvis Cocker

• Adrian Jarvis, rugby fly-half
• Anna Jarvis, founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the US
• Doug Jarvis, ice hockey forward
• Edwin Jarvis, comic book butler
• Eugene Jarvis, game designer and programmer
• Frank Jarvis, athlete
• Graham Jarvis, actor
• Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut

• 3353 Jarvis, an asteroid named after Gregory Jarvis

• Jeff Jarvis, journalist
• John Arthur Jarvis, swimmer
• John Jarvis, karate practitioner
• Kevin Jarvis, baseball player
• Martin Jarvis, English actor
• Paul Jarvis, English cricketer
• Piret Järvis, Estonian musician
• Robbie Jarvis, actor
• Robin Jarvis, novelist
• Thomas Jordan Jarvis, US State Governor
• Oliver Jarvis British racing car driver

[edit] Other

• Jarvis Algorithm, also known as the gift wrapping algorithm
• Jarvis (CTA), a rapid transit station in Chicago, Illinois
• Jarvis Collegiate Institute, a high school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Jarvis Island, a territory of the U.S., located in the South Pacific
• Jarvis PLC, United Kingdom public sector contractor
• USS Jarvis, a series of three ships with the name

• James C. Jarvis, for whom the aforementioned ships were named

See also Jervis.