title: Venn
text: # 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
  