Everett (surname)

Everett (anglicization of the Gaelic Eibhearard) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Entertainers

• Betty Everett (1939–2001), American soul singer, famous for her song "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"
• Bridget Everett (born 1972), American comedian
• Chad Everett (1936–2012), American actor
• Dylan Everett (born 1995), Canadian actor
• Geoff Everett, British guitarist and vocalist
• Kenny Everett (1944–1995), popular British entertainer
• Mark Oliver Everett (born 1963), US musician, founder of Eels
• Timmy Everett (1939–1977), American actor, dancer
• Rupert Everett (born 1959), British actor

Politics and government

• A. Catherine Everett, Manitoba, Canada judge
• Alexander Hill Everett (1792–1847), American diplomatist, politician and man of letters
• Alfred Hart Everett (1848–1898), British colonial administrator and naturalist
• Edward Everett (1794–1865), American politician
• Fats Everett (1915–1969), American politician
• Garth Everett (1954–2023), American attorney and politician
• James Everett (politician) (1889–1967), senior Irish politician
• Ralph B. Everett (born 1951), president and chief executive officer of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Robert Ashton Everett (1915–1969), American politician
• Robert W. Everett (1839–1915), American representative from Georgia
• Robinson O. Everett (1928–2009), American lawyer and judge
• Ron Everett, aka Maulana Karenga (born 1941), US political activist and social scientist
• Terry Everett (1937–2024), American politician
• William Everett (1839–1910), American politician

Sports

• Adam Everett (born 1977), American baseball player
• Allan Everett (footballer) (1913–2003), Australian rules footballer
• Carl Everett (born 1971), American baseball player
• Danny Everett (born 1966), American runner
• Donny Everett (1997–2016), American baseball player
• Dudley Everett (1912–1943), Australian cricketer
• Gerald Everett (born 1994), American football player
• Harold Everett (1891–1979), English cricketer
• Jim Everett, (born 1963), American football player
• Jim Everett (Australian footballer) (1884–1968), Australian rules footballer
• Kevin Everett (born 1982), American football player
• Neil Everett (born 1962), US sports announcer
• Robert W. H. Everett (1901–1942), British jockey

Other people

• Alexander Everett (1921–2005), British self-improvement and personal development consultant
• Alfred Hart Everett (1848–1898), British civil servant in Borneo and naturalist
• Amy "Dolly" Everett (2003–2018), Australian cyberbullying victim who took her life
• Barbara Everett (1932–2025), Canadian-born British academic and literary critic
• Bill Everett (1917–1973), American comic book writer
• Daniel Everett (born 1951), American linguistics professor
• Elizabeth Hawley Everett (1857–1940), American suffragist, author, and academic
• Frank Everett (1861–1920), Washington state pioneer and businessman
• H. D. Everett (1851–1923), British female novelist
• Hugh Everett III (1930–1982), US physicist, quantum mechanics theorist
• John R. Everett (1918–1992), American college president
• Joseph David Everett (1831–1904), English physicist, professor, and writer
• Joy Everett (born 1953), Australian botanist
• Julian F. Everett (1869–1955), American architect
• Minnie Everett (1874–1956), Australian ballet and operetta producer
• Percival Everett (born 1956), American novelist
• Robert Everett (computer science) (1921–2018), computer scientist (MIT, Mitre)
• Roberta Everett (1906–1979), English artist
• Raymond Everett Lisle (1910–1994), American attorney, officer in the US Foreign Service, and Dean of Brooklyn Law School
• Sylvester T. Everett (1838-1922), American financier

Fictional characters

• Lee Everett, the playable character in the video game The Walking Dead
• Logan Everett, American Girl character from the Tenney book series
• Monica Everett, character from the Japanese light novel series Secrets of the Silent Witch
• Morgan Everett, character in the video game Deus Ex

See also

• John Everet, highwayman in Everet v Williams, 1700s English court case about contracts to commit crimes
• Evert, surname