LaRue

LaRue is a French topographic name for someone who lived beside a road, track, or pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’, ‘fold’), with the definite article la.[1] It literally means "the street" in French.[2] It is a surname and sometime a given name. Notable people with the name include:

For other uses, see LaRue (disambiguation).

People

Surname
  • Achille Larue (1849–1922), French-Canadian politician
  • Allen Larue (born 1981), footballer from Seychelles
  • Bartell LaRue (1932–1990), American voice actor
  • Brent LaRue (born 1987), American-Slovenian athlete
  • Charles W. LaRue (1922–2006), American trombonist and jazz arranger
  • Chi Chi LaRue (born 1959), American pornographer
  • Christian LaRue, Canadian hockey coach
  • Custer LaRue (fl. 1983–present), American soprano
  • Danny La Rue (1927–2009), British entertainer born Daniel Patrick Carroll
  • Dave LaRue, American bass guitarist
  • D.C. LaRue (born 1948), American disco artist
  • Dennis LaRue (born 1959), American hockey referee
  • Étienne-Benoît Larue (1865–1935), French Catholic missionary
  • Eva LaRue (born 1966), American actress
  • Florence LaRue (born 1944), American actress
  • François-Xavier Larue (1763–1855), French-Canadian farmer and politician
  • Frank LaRue (born 1952), UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
  • Fred LaRue (1928–2004), aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon
  • Gerald A. Larue (1916–2014), American scholar of religion, former professor of gerontology, former minister, agnostic, archaeologist and humanist
  • Gillie Larew (1882–1977), American mathematician
  • Grace La Rue (1882–1956), American actress, singer and vaudeville star
  • Henri LaRue (1892–1973), French-Canadian politician
  • Jason LaRue (born 1974), American former Major League Baseball player
  • Jim LaRue (born 1925), American football player and coach
  • Lash LaRue (1917–1996), American actor and star of westerns
  • Leonard LaRue (1914–2001), American freighter captain who rescued over 14,000 Korean War refugees, in the largest rescue operation by a single ship in history
  • Mitzy Larue, politician in Seychelles, first elected in 1993
  • Natalie LaRue, American musician
  • Perrault LaRue (1925–1987), French-Canadian politician
  • Phillip LaRue, American musician
  • Praxède Larue (1823–1902), French-Canadian physician and politician
  • Rusty LaRue (born 1973), American basketball coach and former National Basketball Association player
  • Stoney LaRue (born 1977), American country music singer-songwriter born Stoney Larue Phillips
  • Travis LaRue (1913–2009), former mayor of Austin, Texas
  • Vildebon-Winceslas Larue (1851–1906), French-Canadian politician
  • LaRue family, a family of American pioneers

Given name
  • LaRue Kirby (1889–1961), American Major League Baseball outfielder
  • LaRue Martin (born 1950), American former National Basketball Association player
  • LaRue Parker (1935–2011), former Chairperson of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma
  • La Rue Washington (born 1953), briefly a Major League Baseball player

Fictional characters
  • Clarisse LaRue, a character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
  • J.D. LaRue, on the television series Hill Street Blues, played by Kiel Martin
  • Larue Wilson, in the novel Gidget and on the television series Gidget

References
  1. http://www.ancestry.com/facts/LaRue-name-meaning.ashx
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2010-08-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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