Prevost Explained

Prevost, Prévost or Prévôt may refer to:

Places

• Prévost (electoral district), Quebec, a provincial electoral district
• Prévost, Quebec, a community in the Laurentians region of Quebec, Canada
  • Prévost station
• Prevost, a community on Stuart Island, San Juan County, Washington, USA

Ships

• HMCS Prevost, a Canadian naval reserve unit in London, Ontario
• , 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

• 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

• 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), writer
• 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
• (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

• • Provost (disambiguation)