Vern is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Vernon, Lavern or other names. People named Vern include:
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Vernon Vern Bakalich (1929–2015), New Zealand rugby league player
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Verdi Vern Barberis (1928–2005), Australian weightlifter
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Vernon Vern Buchanan (born 1951), American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
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Vern Bullough (1928–2006), American historian and sexologist
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Vernon Vern Burke (born 1941), American former National Football League player
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Vernon Vern Clark (born 1944), former US Navy admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
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Lavern Vern Corbin, American college basketball player (1926–1929)
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Vernon Vern Countryman (1917–1999), American Harvard Law School professor and social critic
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Vern Den Herder (born 1948), American retired National Football League player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
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Vern Fleming (born 1962), American former National Basketball Association player
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Vern Fonk (1930–2006), American entrepreneur best known for founding Vern Fonk Insurance, a high-risk auto insurance agency
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Vern Freiburger (1923–1990), American baseball player
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Vern Gardner (1925–1987), American National Basketball Association player
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Vernon Vern Gosdin (1934–2009), American country music singer
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Vernon Arnold Haugland (1908–1984), American reporter, war correspondent and writer
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Vernon Vern Kaiser (1925–2011), Canadian National Hockey League player
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Vern Oliver Knudsen (1893–1974), American acoustical physicist
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Vern Krishna, Canadian law professor and accountant
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Vernon Vern Law (born 1930), American retired Major League Baseball pitcher
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Arild Verner Vern Mikkelsen (1928–2013), American National Basketball Association player
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Vern Miller (1928–2021), American attorney, former police officer, and former Attorney General of Kansas
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Vern Moore (footballer) (1895–1955), Australian rules footballer
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Vern Mullen (1900–1980), American National Football League player
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Vern Paxson, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
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Vern Poore (), American Oscar-winning sound engineer
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Vern Poythress (born 1946), American Calvinist philosopher, theologian and New Testament scholar
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Lavern Vern Pyles, American politician, former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975–1980)
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Vernal Vern Riffe Jr. (1925–1997), American politician, longest serving speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives
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Vernon Vern Roberson (born 1952), American former National Football League and Canadian Football League player
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Vernon Vern Rumsey (1973–2020), American musician
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Vern Rutsala (1934–2014), American poet
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Vern L. Schramm (born 1941), American biochemist and professor
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Vern Smith (journalist) (1892–?), American communist, journalist and editor
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Vernon Vern Sneider (1916–1981), American novelist best known for The Teahouse of the August Moon
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Vernon Vern Stephens (1920–1968), American Major League Baseball player
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Verner E. Suomi (1915–1995), Finnish-American educator, inventor and scientist, considered the father of satellite meteorology
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Vern Swanson (born 1941), American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
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Vern Taylor, Canadian figure skater (1970s) and coach
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Vern Terpstra (1927–2013), Professor Emeritus of international business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
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Vern Tincher (born 1936), American politician, former member of the Indiana House of Representatives
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Delbert Lavern Vern Williams (1930–2006), American bluegrass musician
Fictional Characters
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Vern a neighbour or fictional character Ernest P. Worrell
See also
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Vern-d'Anjou, a commune in Maine-et-Loire, France
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Vern-sur-Seiche, a commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France