Prevost
Prevost, Prévost or Prévôt may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Prévost (electoral district), Quebec, a provincial electoral district
- Prévost, Quebec, a community in the Laurentians region of Quebec, Canada
- Prevost, a community on Stuart Island, San Juan County, Washington, USA
Ships
[edit]- HMCS Prevost, a Canadian naval reserve unit in London, Ontario
- HMS Prevost, a 12-gun schooner that the Royal Navy purchased in 1803 and that the French privateer Austerlitz captured in 1807
- HMS Sir George Prevost, a British naval warship
- USS Lady Prevost (1812), a United States warship
Other uses
[edit]- Prevost (bus manufacturer), a bus manufacturer and division of Volvo Buses
- Prévost reaction, a chemical reaction
- Prevost's ground sparrow, a sparrow
- Prevost's squirrel, a rodent
People with the surname
[edit]- Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), French novelist
- André Prévost (composer) (1934–2001), Canadian composer
- Augustine Prévost (1723–1786), British general
- Charles Prévost (1899–1983), French chemist
- Codie Prevost (born 1984), Canadian country singer
- Constant Prévost (1787–1856), French geologist
- Daniel Prévost (born 1939), French actor
- Eddie Prévost (born 1942), English drummer and percussionist
- Eugène Prévost (carpenter) (1898–1965), founder of Prevost Car
- Eugène Prévost (cyclist) (1863–1961), French cyclist
- Eugène Prévost (musician) (1809–1872), French composer and conductor
- Florent Prévost (1794–1870), French naturalist
- Françoise Prévost (1680–1741), French dancer
- Françoise Prévost (actress) (1930–1997), actress
- Gédéon-Mélasippe Prévost (1817–1887), Quebec notary and political figure
- George Prévost (1767–1816), British general and governor
- George Prevost McKay (1840–1924), Canadian business executive and politician
- Hippolyte Prévost (1808–1873), inventor of a stenography system; see Théodore-Pierre Bertin
- Isaac-Bénédict Prévost (1755–1819), Swiss theologian, plant pathologist and naturalist
- James Charles Prevost (1810–1891), British admiral
- Jean Prévost (1901–1944), French writer and Resistance fighter
- Jean Prévost (politician) (1870–1915), Quebec lawyer, journalist and politician
- Jean-Louis Prévost (1838–1927), Swiss neurologist and physiologist
- Jean-Louis Prévost (1790–1850), botanical artist
- Joël Prévost (born 1950), musician
- Leonardo Prevost (born 1971), Cuban sprinter
- Louis Prévost de Sansac (1496–1576), a Marshal of France
- Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol (1829–1870), French journalist and essayist
- Marcel Prévost (1862–1941), French writer
- Marie Prevost (1896–1937), actress
- Maurice Prévost (1887–1948), French pioneer aviator
- Michael Prevost (born 1953), German-Canadian boxer
- Nicholas Le Prevost (born 1947), English actor
- Pierre Prévost (physicist) (1751–1839), Swiss philosopher and physicist
- Pierre André Prévost de La Prévostière, governor general of Pondicherry
- Prevost baronets, title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Robert Prévost (1927–1982), Canadian set designer
- Robert Francis Prevost (born 1955), Catholic prelate and Curial official
- Victor Prevost (1820–1881), photographer
- Wilfrid Prévost (1832–1898), Quebec lawyer and politician
- Yves Prévost (1908–1997), Quebec lawyer and politician
- Yvonne Prévost (1878–1942), tennis player
See also
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