Everard is a given name and surname which is the anglicised version of the old Germanic name Eberhard. Notable people with the name include:

People

First name

  • Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps (1835–1857), English East India officer awarded the Victoria Cross
  • Everard Calthrop (1857–1927), British railway engineer and inventor
  • Everard Charles Cotes (1862—1944), British entomologist
  • Everard Digby (disambiguation)
  • Everard Hambro (1842–1925), British banker
  • Everard Home (1756–1832), British physician
  • Everard of Calne (fl 1121–1145), Bishop of Norwich
  • Everard (bishop of Nyitra) (fl. 1183–1198), Hungarian prelate
  • Everard 't Serclaes (c. 1320–1388), Brabantine patriot

Last name

  • Charles George Everard (1794–1876), pioneer farmer and politician in South Australia
  • Fiona Everard (born 1998), Irish cross country runner
  • Harriett Everard (1844–1882), English singer and actress
  • John Everard (disambiguation)
  • Mary Everard (1942–2022), English amateur golfer
  • Mathias Everard (died 1857), British major-general
  • Patrick Everard (Jacobite) (died 1720), Irish Jacobite politician and soldier
  • Sarah Everard (1987–2021), British marketing executive who went missing and was found dead
  • Susannah Kidder Everard, Lady Everard, (1683–1739) British aristocrat
  • Thomas Everard (disambiguation)
  • William Everard (disambiguation)

Fictional characters

  • Professor Everard, British wizard and former headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter fictional universe.
  • Captain Everard, from Henry James' novella In the Cage.
  • Everard, an imaginary friend used by English comedian Larry Grayson in his stand-up act.
  • Everard Webley, from Aldous Huxley's novel Point Counter Point.

See also

  • Everard baronets
  • Everard Central, South Australia, a locality
  • Hundred of Everard, South Australia, a cadastral unit
  • Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, England