Hern

• Dick Hern, British horse trainer
• Riley Hern, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• Tom Hern, New Zealand actor
• Warren Hern, American physician

• Basia A'Hern, English-born Australian actor
• Nicholas A'Hern, Australian race walker
• Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997-2008.
• Nick O'Hern, Australian golfer

  Other uses

• Hern is an archaic term for a heron
• The term has also become a synonym for "an American" among fans of The Goon Show, following the Goons' habit of parodying American accents with repetitions of "hern"
• The term was also used on television in the early 1960s by Red Skelton, who was playing a visiting Martian in a skit and asked a passerby on the street if he "had change for a hern", the Martian unit of currency