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词条 Travers (surname)
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| languageorigin = Norman French
Middle English (ME)
Irish Gaelic
| origin = travers (ME: toll or tolltaker on bridges, etc.) from traverser (Norman: to cross)
Ó Treabhair (Irish: descendant of Treabhair; skillful)
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| variant = Travis, Trevors, Travors, Trower, Trover, Trevir
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Travers is an English and Irish surname.[2] 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
  • Emily Travers, New Zealand cricketer
  • Francis Travers, English cricketer
  • 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
  • Lily Travers, British actress and model
  • 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 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 Streetwise
  • Quentin Travers, a member of the Watchers' Council in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series
  • Torquil Travers, a member of the Pure-blood Travers family from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

References

1. ^{{cite book| last1 = Seary| first1 = E.| last2 = Kirwin| first2 = William| title = Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland| date = 1998| publisher = McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP| isbn = 978-0-7735-6741-2| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qG7ZfjizfQQC&pg=PA518| accessdate = 13 July 2017| language = en}}
2. ^{{cite book| last = Browne| first = W.A.F.| last2 = Reaney| first2 = P.H.| last3 = Wilson| first3 = R.M.| last4 = Scull| first4 = A.| title = A Dictionary of English Surnames| publisher = Routledge| series = Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry| year = 1991| isbn = 978-0-415-05737-0| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5sVq7VQlNwcC&pg=PA3148| access-date = 19 August 2018| page = 3148}}
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