LaRue

LaRue is a French topographic name for someone who lived beside a road, track, or pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’, ‘fold’), with the definite article la.[1] It literally means "the street" in French.[2] It is a surname and sometime a given name. Notable people with the name include:

People

Surname

Given name

  • LaRue Kirby (1889–1961), American Major League Baseball outfielder
  • LaRue Martin (born 1950), American former National Basketball Association player
  • LaRue Parker (1935–2011), former Chairperson of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma
  • La Rue Washington (born 1953), briefly a Major League Baseball player

Fictional characters

Dominque LaRue a character in the movie Harlem Nights played by Jasmine Guy

References

  1. http://www.ancestry.com/facts/LaRue-name-meaning.ashx
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2010-08-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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