Avis Kimble

{{short description|American model (born 1944)}}

{{BLP sources|date=October 2012}}

{{Infobox Playboy Playmate

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| name = Avis Kimble

| issue = November 1962

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| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois{{cite web|title=Playmate Avis Kimble|url=http://www.playboy.com/girls/view/avis-kimble|work=Playboy|publisher=playboy.com|accessdate=October 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914160441/http://www.playboy.com/girls/view/avis-kimble|archive-date=September 14, 2012|url-status=dead}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1944|10|18}}

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| preceded = Laura Young

| succeeded = June Cochran

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Avis Kimble (born October 18, 1944) is an American model. At age 17 she was photographed by Jon Pownall to become Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1962 issue.

Avis was one of three finalists for that year's Playmate of the Year, and appeared on the cover of the January 1963 issue.{{cite web|title=Playboy Cover January 1963 |url=http://www.playboycoverarchive.com/united-states/us-1960s/us-1963/us-playboy-cover-january-1963 |work=Playboy Cover Archive |publisher=playboycoverarchive.com |accessdate=October 28, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110922231655/http://www.playboycoverarchive.com/united-states/us-1960s/us-1963/us-playboy-cover-january-1963 |archivedate=September 22, 2011 }} June Cochran beat out Avis and Laura Young for the title. Kimble worked as a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club, and also ran a boutique in the Windy City at the same time.

She was one of the Editors' choices for the top ten Playmates of all time during Playboy's ten-year anniversary celebration. She did not make the top ten list when the readers' top ten was voted on.