Venn
# Venn

Venn is a surname and a given name. It may refer to:

## Given name

* Venn Eyre (died 1777), Archdeacon of Carlisle, Cumbria, England
* Venn Pilcher (1879–1961), Anglican bishop, writer, and translator of hymns
* Venn Young (1929–1993), New Zealand politician

## Surname

* Albert Venn (1867–1908), American lacrosse player
* Anne Venn (1620s–1654), English religious radical and diarist
* Blair Venn, Australian actor
* Charles Venn (born 1973), British actor
* Harry Venn (1844–1908), Australian politician
* Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society) the younger (1796-1873), secretary of the Church Missionary Society, grandson of Henry Venn
* Henry Venn (Clapham Sect) the elder (1725–1797), English evangelical minister
* Horace Venn (1892–1953), English cricketer
* John Venn (1834–1923), British logician and the inventor of Venn diagrams, son of Henry Venn the younger
* John Venn (academic) (died 1687), English academic administrator
* John Venn (politician) (1586–1650), English politician
* John Venn (priest) (1759–1813), one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society, son of Henry Venn
* John Archibald Venn (1883–1958), British economist
* Kath Venn (1926–2019), Australian politician
* Kim Venn, Canadian professor of physics and astronomy
* Kristin Venn (born 1994), Norwegian handball player
* Laurie Venn (born 1953), Australian racing cyclist
* Rebecca Venn, Canadian curler; see 2013 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts
* Richard Venn (died 1639), English merchant and Lord Mayor of London
* Richard Venn (priest), rector of St. Antholin's, London; see Thomas Rundle

## Fictional characters

* Diggory Venn, in the 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native
