# Vern

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{{About|the given name|the river in Minnesota|Vern River}}
'''Vern''' is a masculine given name, often a short form ([hypocorism](/source/hypocorism)) of [Vernon](/source/Vernon_(disambiguation)), [Lavern](/source/Lavern) or other names. People named Vern include:

* Vernon [Vern Bakalich](/source/Vern_Bakalich) (1929–2015), New Zealand rugby league player
* Verdi [Vern Barberis](/source/Vern_Barberis) (1928–2005), Australian weightlifter
* Vernon [Vern Buchanan](/source/Vern_Buchanan) (born 1951), American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
* [Vern Bullough](/source/Vern_Bullough) (1928–2006), American historian and sexologist
* Vernon [Vern Burke](/source/Vern_Burke) (born 1941), American former National Football League player
* Vernon [Vern Clark](/source/Vern_Clark) (born 1944), former US Navy admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
* Lavern [Vern Corbin](/source/Vern_Corbin), American college basketball player (1926–1929)
* Vernon [Vern Countryman](/source/Vern_Countryman) (1917–1999), American Harvard Law School professor and social critic
* [Vern Den Herder](/source/Vern_Den_Herder) (born 1948), American retired National Football League player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
* [Vern Fleming](/source/Vern_Fleming) (born 1962), American former National Basketball Association player
* [Vern Fonk](/source/Vern_Fonk) (1930–2006), American entrepreneur best known for founding Vern Fonk Insurance, a high-risk auto insurance agency
* [Vern Freiburger](/source/Vern_Freiburger) (1923–1990), American baseball player
* [Vern Gardner](/source/Vern_Gardner) (1925–1987), American National Basketball Association player
* Vernon [Vern Gosdin](/source/Vern_Gosdin) (1934–2009), American country music singer
* [Vernon Arnold Haugland](/source/Vernon_Arnold_Haugland) (1908–1984), American reporter, war correspondent and writer
* Vernon [Vern Kaiser](/source/Vern_Kaiser) (1925–2011), Canadian National Hockey League player
* [Vern Oliver Knudsen](/source/Vern_Oliver_Knudsen) (1893–1974), American acoustical physicist
* [Vern Krishna](/source/Vern_Krishna), Canadian law professor and accountant
* Vernon [Vern Law](/source/Vern_Law) (born 1930), American retired Major League Baseball pitcher
* Arild Verner [Vern Mikkelsen](/source/Vern_Mikkelsen) (1928–2013), American National Basketball Association player
* [Vern Miller](/source/Vern_Miller) (1928–2021), American attorney, former police officer, and former Attorney General of Kansas
* [Vern Moore (footballer)](/source/Vern_Moore_(footballer)) (1895–1955), Australian rules footballer
* [Vern Mullen](/source/Vern_Mullen) (1900–1980), American National Football League player
* [Vern Paxson](/source/Vern_Paxson), Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
* [Vern Poore](/source/Vern_Poore) ({{fl.|1975–1996}}), American Oscar-winning sound engineer
* [Vern Poythress](/source/Vern_Poythress) (born 1946), American Calvinist philosopher, theologian and New Testament scholar
* Lavern [Vern Pyles](/source/Vern_Pyles), American politician, former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975–1980)
* Vernal [Vern Riffe](/source/Vern_Riffe) Jr. (1925–1997), American politician, longest serving speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives
* Vernon [Vern Roberson](/source/Vern_Roberson) (born 1952), American former National Football League and Canadian Football League player
* Vernon [Vern Rumsey](/source/Vern_Rumsey) (1973–2020), American musician
* [Vern Rutsala](/source/Vern_Rutsala) (1934–2014), American poet
* [Vern L. Schramm](/source/Vern_L._Schramm) (born 1941), American biochemist and professor
* [Vern Smith (journalist)](/source/Vern_Smith_(journalist)) (1892–?), American communist, journalist and editor
* Vernon [Vern Sneider](/source/Vern_Sneider) (1916–1981), American novelist best known for ''The Teahouse of the August Moon''
* Vernon [Vern Stephens](/source/Vern_Stephens) (1920–1968), American Major League Baseball player
* [Verner E. Suomi](/source/Verner_E._Suomi) (1915–1995), Finnish-American educator, inventor and scientist, considered the father of satellite meteorology
* [Vern Swanson](/source/Vern_Swanson) (born 1941), American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
* [Vern Taylor](/source/Vern_Taylor), Canadian figure skater (1970s) and coach
* [Vern Terpstra](/source/Vern_Terpstra) (1927–2013), Professor Emeritus of international business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
* [Vern Tincher](/source/Vern_Tincher) (born 1936), American politician, former member of the Indiana House of Representatives
* Delbert Lavern [Vern Williams](/source/Vern_Williams) (1930–2006), American bluegrass musician

== Fictional Characters ==
* Vern a neighbour or fictional character [Ernest P. Worrell](/source/Ernest_P._Worrell)

==See also==
*{{Look from|Vern}}
*[Vern-d'Anjou](/source/Vern-d'Anjou), a commune in Maine-et-Loire, France
*[Vern-sur-Seiche](/source/Vern-sur-Seiche), a commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France

{{given name}}
Category:Masculine given names
Category:Hypocorisms

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