Venn Explained

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) (1796-1873), secretary of the Church Missionary Society, grandson of Henry Venn
• Henry Venn (Clapham Sect) (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
• Richard Venn (died 1639), English merchant and Lord Mayor of London

Fictional characters

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