Avis

Contents 1 Businesses 2 People 2.1 Given name 2.2 Family name 3 Places 4 Science and technology 5 Vehicles 6 Entertainment 7 Acronyms 8 Other uses 9 See also

Avis may refer to:

Businesses

• Avis Budget Group, founded in 2006 as the successor company to Cendant Corporation
  • Avis Rent a Car System, a car rental company
  • Avis Worldwide Foreign Education Services, a worldwide foreign education company formed and owned by Sandeep S Pillai.

• Haugesunds Avis, a daily newspaper published in Haugesund, Norway
• Farsunds Avis, a newspaper published in Farsunds, Norway
• Flensborg Avis, a Danish-language newspaper published in Flensburg, Germany
• Moss Avis, a newspaper published in Moss, Norway
• Rakkestad Avis, a newspaper published in Rakkestad, Norway
• Rogalands Avis, a newspaper published in Stavanger, Norway
• Sogn Avis, a newspaper published in Leikanger, Norway
• Stavanger Avis, a newspaper published in Stavanger, Norway
• Skotfos Avis, a newspaper published in Skotfos, Norway

People

Given name

• Avis Bohlen (born 1940), American diplomat, former Ambassador to Bulgaria
• Avis Bunnage (1923-1990), British actress of film, stage and television
• Avis M. Dry (1922–2007), clinical psychologist and author on the psychology of Carl Jung
• Avis Favaro (born 1958), Canadian medical correspondent for CTV News since 1992
• Avis Gray (born 1954), politician in Manitoba, Canada
• Avis Kimble (born 1944), American model
• Avis McIntosh (born 1938), New Zealand former sprinter
• Avis Miller (born 1945), American model
• Avis Tucker (1915-2010), American owner and publisher of The Daily Star-Journal newspaper
• Avis Stearns Van Wagenen (1841-1907), a partner in E. C. Stearns & Company

Family name

• House of Aviz (currently spelled Avis), the Portuguese royal dynasty
• David Avis (born 1951), Canadian and British computer scientist
• Gary Avis, dancer with The Royal Ballet
• Paul Avis, Anglican priest, theologian and ecumenist
• Samuel B. Avis (1872-1924), American politician
• Warren Avis (1915-2007), the founder of Avis Rent A Car

Places

• Avis, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough
• Avis Municipality, in the south of Portugal
• Avis Dam, near Windhoek, Namibia

Science and technology

• calcar avis (hippocampus minor), an involution of the ventricular wall produced by the calcarine fissure
• The free software implementation of the Elvin network event routing specification.

Vehicles

• USS Avis (SP-382), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
• Auster Avis, a four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project)
• Avro Avis, a two-seat biplane

Entertainment

• Avis, a Harry Potter spell
• Avis Everhard, fictional narrator of Jack London's "The Iron Heel"
• Avis de Recherche, Canadian French language category 2 digital cable specialty channel

Acronyms

• Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue, or AVIS, the major Italian blood donation organisation
• Andover Village Improvement Society, the oldest conservation society in the eastern United States

Other uses

• Order of Aviz (Ordem Militar de Avis), a Portuguese military order

See also

• Avi (disambiguation)
• Aves (disambiguation)

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