Avril (name)

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Avril is used as a given name and a surname. Measured by absolute frequency, it most often occurs in France, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the United States.[1]

Notable people with the name include:

## Given name

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* Avril Anderson (born 1953), English music educator and composer
* Avril Angers (1918–2005), English comedian
* Avril Benoît, Canadian broadcaster
* Avril Bowring (born 1942), English sprinter
* Kim Campbell (born 1947), Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister
* Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903–1998), English pianist, conductor, and composer
* Avril Dankworth (1922–2013), English music educator
* Avril de Sainte-Croix (1855–1939), French author, journalist, feminist, and pacifist
* Avril Doyle (born 1949), Irish politician
* Avril Elgar (1932–2021), English stage, radio and television actress
* Avril Fahey (born 1974), Australian cricketer
* Avril (Frédéric Magnon) (born 1974), French electro-ambient musician
* Avril Haines (born 1969), American lawyer, first female Director of National Intelligence
* Avril Henry (1935–2016), English activist
* Avril Hoare, Irish radio personality
* Avril Joy, British author
* Avril Lavigne (born 1984), Canadian singer-songwriter
* Avril Lennox (born 1956), British gymnast
* Avril Lovelace-Johnson, Ghanaian jurist
* Avril Malan (born 1937), South African rugby union player
* Avril Palmer-Baunack (born 1964), British businesswoman
* Avril Phali (born 1978), South African football player
* Avril Pyman (born 1930), British scholar and Russian literature translator
* Avril (singer) (born 1986), Kenyan singer-songwriter, actress, and entertainer
* Avril Starling (born 1953), English cricketer
* Avril Walker (born 1954), British luger
* Avril Williams (born 1961), South African rugby player

## Surname

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* Cliff Avril (born 1986), American football player
* Édouard-Henri Avril or his pseudonym Paul Avril (1849–1928), French painter
* Étienne Avril (1748–1791), French furniture designer
* Jacky Avril (born 1964), French slalom canoer
* Jane Avril (1868–1943), French dancer
* Margaux Avril (born 1991), French singer
* Philippe Avril (1654–1698?), French explorer
* Prosper Avril (born 1937), Haitian politician
* Yola d'Avril (1906–1984), American actress

## Fictional characters

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* Avril Hodgkins, a character from the educational TV series How We Used to Live
* Avril Kent, character on Emmerdale
* Avril Incandenza, mother of protagonist Hal Incandenza in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
* Avril Vent Fleur, a playable character in Wild Arms 5

## See also

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* All pages with titles containing Avril
* Abril
* April (given name)
* April (surname)
* Averell
* Averill (disambiguation)
* Avril (disambiguation)
* Averil

## References

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1. ^ "Name Avril around the world". Mondonomo.ai. Retrieved 14 October 2022.

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