Avril (name)
Avril is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Avril Angers, English comedian
- Avril Benoît, Canadian broadcaster
- Kim Campbell, Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister
- Avril Coleridge-Taylor, English pianist, conductor, and composer
- Avril Dankworth, English music educator
- Avril Doyle, Irish politician
- Avril (Frédéric Magnon), French electro-ambient musician
- Avril Haines, American lawyer, first female Director of National Intelligence
- Avril Hoare, Irish radio personality
- Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Avril Phali, South African football player
- Avril Williams, South African rugby player
Surname:
- Cliff Avril, American football player
- Édouard-Henri Avril or his pseudonym Paul Avril, French painter
- Étienne Avril (1748-1791), French furniture designer
- Jacky Avril, French slalom canoer
- Jane Avril, French dancer
- Margaux Avril, French singer
- Philippe Avril, French explorer
- Prosper Avril, Haitian politician
- Yola d'Avril, American actress
Fictional characters:
- 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
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