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:

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
• Greg laRue (born 1956), pro titler reacher
• 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 (1925–2015), 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
• Roger ‘Roc’ LaRue (1939-2019), American Rockabilly singer-songwriter, inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
• 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
• Adeline "Addie" LaRue, the main character of the novel The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab.