title: Kerner
text: # Kerner
  
  Kerner may refer to:
  
  * Kerner (grape), a variety of white grape
  * Kerner Commission, established in 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of race riots in the United States
  * Kerner Optical, a motion picture visual effects company
  * Durand–Kerner method, root-finding algorithm for solving polynomial equations in numerical analysis
  
  ## People
  
  ### Literature
  
  * Elizabeth Kerner (born 1958), fantasy author
  * Justinus Kerner (1786–1862), a German lyric poet of the Swabian school
  
  ### Politics
  
  * Johann Georg Kerner (1770–1812), political journalist, critical chronicler of the French revolution, brother of Justinus Kerner
  * Otto Kerner, Jr. (1908–1976), Illinois Governor and judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  * Otto Kerner, Sr. (1884–1952), an Illinois Attorney General and judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  
  ### Entertainment and media
  
  * Debby Kerner, American singer
  * Nena (Gabriele Susanne Kerner; born 1960), German singer who became famous with the New German Wave songs "Nur geträumt" and "99 Luftballons"
  * Jordan Kerner, film producer
  * Johannes B. Kerner, (born 1964), German television broadcaster
  
  ### Sports
  
  * Jonathan Kerner (born 1974), American basketball player
  * Marlon Kerner (born 1973), American football player
  
  ### Science and mathematics
  
  * Boris Kerner, (born 1947), German physicist
  * Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1831–1898), Austrian botanist
  
  ### Other fields
  
  * Ian Kerner, American sex counselor
  