Vavasour (surname)

Vavasour is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Vavasour (family), an English Catholic family dating back to Norman times
  • Anne Vavasour (c. 1560–c. 1650), Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth I, and mistress of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
  • Thomas Vavasour (about 1536/7–1585), physician and recusant of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
  • Thomas Vavasour (knight marshal) (1560–1620), Knight Marshal to King James I
• John Vavasour (c. 1440–1506), English judge
• Sir Henry Vavasour, benefactor of All Saints' Church, Barwick-in-Elmet, Leeds
• Mervin Vavasour (1821–1866), officer of the British Army Royal Engineers
• William Vavasour (1514–1566), English Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Yorkshire

See also

• Vavasseur