Taverner

Taverner may refer to:

  • someone who owns tavern
  • Taverner (opera), by Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Taverner Research, an Australian polling and market research company
  • Taverner Consort and Players, a period instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber choir

People named Taverner include:

  • John Taverner (c1490–1545), a renaissance English composer
  • John Tavener (born 1944), English composer.
  • Richard Taverner (1505–1575), author of a 16th-century translation of the Bible, Taverner's Bible.
  • Percy A. Taverner (1875–1947), a Canadian ornithologist
  • Jason Taverner, the main character in Philip K. Dick's novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said