Taverner is an English-language occupational surname. Notable people with the surname include:
John le Taverner (fl. 1295–1313), MP for Bristol John Taverner (c. 1490–1545), Renaissance English composer John Tavener (1944–2013), English composer John Taverner (priest) (1584–1638), English Anglican priest Richard Taverner (1505–1575), author of Taverner's Bible, a 16th-century translation of the Bible Percy A. Taverner (1875–1947), Canadian ornithologist Sonia Taverner (1936–2018), English-born Canadian ballet dancer William J. Taverner, American sex educator
Fictional characters Jason Taverner, the main character in Philip K. Dick's novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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