# Prevost

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
* 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

* 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), 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 [fr] (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 (1950–2024), French singer
* 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