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Devis

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Devis is a masculine given name and a surname. Bearers include:

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  • Anthony Devis (1729–1816), English landscape painter, half-brother of Arthur Devis
  • Arthur Devis (1712–1787), English painter
  • Arthur William Devis (1762–1822), English painter, son of the above
  • Charles Walter De Vis (1829–1915), originally spelled Devis, English zoologist, ornithologist, herpetologist and botanist
  • Ellin Devis (1746–1820), schoolmistress and author of The Accidence, a popular eighteenth-century grammar, daughter of Arthur Devis