Trevor

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Trevor can be a male given name or a surname. It is also a place-name in Wales.

Etymology

Trevor can be a given name or surname of Welsh origin (as a given name Trefor in Welsh): also a habitational name from any of the numerous places in Wales, in particular the one near Llangollen, from the Welsh tre(f), meaning "homestead", or "settlement" and a form of mawr, meaning "large".

Trevor is also a name of Irish origin. It is a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Treabhair (descendant of Treabhar), a byname meaning "industrious", "tight", or "prudent".

As a given name

Notable people with the forename Trevor include:

• Trevor Ariza, NBA basketball
• Trevor Bailey, cricketer
• Trevor Berbick, boxer
• The Hon. Sir Trevor Bigham, policeman
• Sir Trevor Brooking
• Sir Trevor Chinn
• Sir Trevor Dawson Bt, arms manufacturer
• Trevor Devall, actor
• Trevor Eve, actor
• Sir Trevor Henry, NZ judge
• Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough
• Trevor Hoffman, MLB baseball
• Trevor Howard, actor
• Trevor Huddleston, Anglican priest and anti-apartheid activist
• Trevor Immelman, golfer
• Trevor Jones (composer), orchestral film score composer
• Trevor Lock, comedian
• Trevor Mallard, New Zealand politician and Cabinet Minister
• Trevor Manuel, South African politician and economist
• Peter Trevor Maxwell, Peter Maxwell, 28th Baron de Ros, Premier Baron of England
• Sir Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Baronet
• Trevor Linden, NHL hockey
• Sir Trevor McDonald, broadcaster
• Trevor Moore, American comedian
• Trevor Murdock, ring name of professional wrestler William Mueller
• Trevor Nelson, British DJ
• Sir Trevor Nunn, theatre and film director
• Trevor Phillips (born 1953), British politician
• Trevor Plouffe, MLB baseball
• Trevor Pryce (born 1975), American football player
• Trevor Rabin, guitarist formerly of the rock group Yes
• Trevor Rees-Jones, Bodyguard and sole survivor of the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales
• Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd
• Trevor St. John, American actor, best known as Todd Manning on ABC-TV soap opera One Life to Live
• Sir Trevor Skeet, Conservative MP
• Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton, Liberal Democrat Peer
• Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr., a.k.a Busta Rhymes, American rapper
• Admiral Sir Trevor Soar, C-in-C Fleet from June 2009
• Trevor Steven, English footballer
• Trevor Wilkinson, founder (1947–1965) TVR sports cars
• Sir Trevor Williams, 1st Baronet

Fictional characters

• Trevor the Traction Engine, character from The Railway Series children's books by the Rev. W. Awdry
• Trevor, Neville Longbottom's pet toad in the Harry Potter series
• Trevor Belmont, a character from the popular Castlevania game series
• Trevor McKinney, a 12-year-old character in the movie Pay It Forward played by Haley Joel Osment
• Trevor Goodchild, the title character's antagonist in the franchise Æon Flux.
• D.S. Trevor Hands, character from the British crime drama television series M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team played by Michael McKell (2003, 2005)
• Trevor Morgan, a fictional character from the BBC soap opera, EastEnders
• Magical Trevor, magician in Weebl's cartoons
• Trevor Pierce is the name of a man who thinks he is the god Cupid, in the 2009 remake of the show Cupid. In the 1998 show, the character was named Trevor Hale.

Other uses of the name

• Trevor, 1994 award-winning short film which received honorable mention at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Live Action Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards
• The Trevor Project, toll-free suicide prevention helpline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States, inspired by the film
• Trevor disease, a bone development disorder

Places

in Wales

• Trevor, Wrexham
  • Trevor Basin, a canal basin
  • Trevor railway station
• Trefor, Gwynedd
• Trefor, Anglesey

See also

• John Trevor, various people
• Trevor Jones, various people

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