Vern is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Vernon, Lavern or other names. People named Vern include:
Vernon Vern Bakalich (1929-2015), New Zealand rugby league player
Verdi Vern Barberis (1928–2005), Australian weightlifter
Vernon Vern Buchanan (born 1951), American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
Vern Bullough (1928–2006), American historian and sexologist
Vernon Vern Burke (born 1941), American former National Football League player
Vernon Vern Clark (born 1944), former US Navy admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
Lavern Vern Corbin, American college basketball player (1926-1929)
Vernon Vern Countryman (1917-1999), American Harvard Law School professor and social critic
Vern Den Herder (born 1948), American retired National Football League player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Vern Fleming (born 1962), American former National Basketball Association player
Vern Fonk (c. 1931–2006), American entrepreneur best known for founding Vern Fonk Insurance, a high-risk auto insurance agency
Vern Gardner (1925–1987), American National Basketball Association player
Vernon Vern Gosdin (1934–2009), American country music singer
Vernon Arnold Haugland (1908-1984), American reporter, war correspondent and writer
Vernon Vern Kaiser (1925-2011), Canadian National Hockey League player
Vern Oliver Knudsen (1893–1974), American acoustical physicist
Vern Krishna, Canadian law professor and accountant
Vernon Vern Law (born 1930), American retired Major League Baseball pitcher
Arild Verner Vern Mikkelsen (1928-2013), American National Basketball Association player
Vern Miller (born 1928), American attorney, former police officer and former Attorney General of Kansas
Vern Moore (footballer) (1895–1955), former Australian rules footballer
Vern Mullen (1900-1980), American National Football League player
Vern Paxson, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Vern Poore (fl. 1975-1996), American Oscar-winning sound engineer
Vern Poythress (born 1946), American Calvinist philosopher, theologian and New Testament scholar
Lavern Vern Pyles, American politician, former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975-1980)
Vernal Vern Riffe Jr. (1925–1997), American politician, longest serving speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives
Vernon Vern Roberson (born 1952), American former National Football League and Canadian Football League player
Vern Rutsala (1934–2014), American poet
Vern L. Schramm (born 1941), American biochemist and professor
Vern Smith (journalist) (1892-?), American communist, journalist and editor
Vernon Vern Sneider (1916–1981), American novelist best known for The Teahouse of the August Moon
Vernon Vern Stephens (1920-1968), American Major League Baseball player
Verner E. Suomi (1915-1995), Finnish-American educator, inventor and scientist, considered the father of satellite meteorology
Vern Swanson (born 1941), American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
Vern Taylor, Canadian figure skater (1970s) and coach
Vern Terpstra (1927-2013), Professor Emeritus of international business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Vern Tincher (born 1936), American politician, former member of the Indiana House of Representatives
Delbert Lavern Vern Williams (1930-2006), American bluegrass musician
