Travers
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Travers may refer to:
Surname
| Travers | |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Norman French |
| Word/Name | traverser "to cross" |
| Meaning | to cross over |
| Other names | |
| Variant(s) | Travis |
- Allan Travers (1892–1968), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Angela Travers, fictional character
- 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
- Boyd Travers, fictional war hero in the computer game Medal of Honor: Airborne
- Cody Travers
- Dahlia Travers, fictional character in P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
- Dow Travers
- George Travers, English footballer and FA Cup winner with Barnsley F.C.
- George Travers (rugby player), Welsh international rugby union player
- Henry Travers
- James Travers
- Jerome Travers
- Joe Travers
- John Travers (actor)
- John Travers (composer)
- John Travers (murderer)
- Kyle Travers
- Linden Travers
- Mary Travers (journalist)
- Mary Travers (singer) (born 1936), American singer; member of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary
- Mary Rose-Anna Travers (1894–1941), Canadian Québécois singer known as "La Bolduc"
- Mary Travers (journalist), television journalist; a.k.a. Mary Travers-Murphy
- Morris Travers
- P. L. Travers, Australian author best known for Mary Poppins
- Paddy Travers
- Pat Travers
- Peter Travers, American film critic
- Quentin Travers
- Sarah Travers (born 1974), Northern Irish journalist
- Susan Travers (1909–2003), an English soldier and adventurer who served with the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War
- Thomas Otho Travers, 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
Geography
- Travers, Alberta, a hamlet in Alberta, Canada
- Travers Reservoir in Alberta, Canada
- Travers River in New Zealand
- Travers, Switzerland, a village in the canton of Neuchâtel, in the Val-de-Travers district
Other uses
- Travers, another name for the movement Haunches-in
- Travers SAR antenna, part of the Priroda module of the Russian space station Mir.
- The Travers Stakes, horse race held in Saratoga Springs, New York
See also
- Traverse (disambiguation)