People with the given name
* Mervyn or Merfyn Frych, king of Gwynedd (c. 825-844) * Mervyn Archdall (disambiguation), various persons * Mervyn S. Bennion (1887–1941), US Navy captain killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor * Mervyn Carrick (born 1946), Northern Ireland politician * Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch (born 1952), former banker and UK government minister * Mervyn Davies (1946–2012), Welsh former rugby union player * Mervyn Day (born 1955), English former football goalkeeper * Mervyn de Silva (1929-1999), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist * Mervyn Dillon (born 1974), West Indian cricketer * Mervyn M. Dymally (born 1926), American politician, first Trinidadian Lieutenant Governor of California * Mervyn Fernandez (born 1959), former National Football League and Canadian Football League wide receiver * Mervyn Fonseka, Solicitor General of Sri Lanka from 1943-1945 * Merv Griffin (1925-2007), American singer, television host and media mogul * Merv Harvey (1918–1995), Australian cricketer * Mervyn Hill (1902–1948), Welsh cricketer * Merv Hughes (born 1961), Australian cricketer * Mervyn Jayasuriya (died 2008), Sri Lankan Sinhala radio announcer * Mervyn Johns (1899–1992), Welsh film and television actor * Mervyn King (economist) (born 1948), British economist, Governor of the Bank of England * Mervyn King (judge), former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa and chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance * Mervyn King (darts player) (born 1966), British darts player * Mervyn King (bowls) (born 1966), English bowls player * Mervyn Kitchen (born 1940), English former first-class cricketer and international umpire * Mervyn LeRoy (1900–1987), American film director, producer and sometime actor * Mervyn Maynard (-2017), Aboriginal Australian jockey * Mervyn Middlecoat (1940–1971), Pakistan Air Force wing commander * Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator, best known for his ''Gormenghast'' series * Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike (1918–2004), British politician * Mervyn Rose (born 1930), Australian tennis player * Mervyn Silva (born 1944), controversial Sri Lankan politician * Mervyn Spence (born 1965-6), Northern Irish musician * Mervyn Stockwood (1913–1995), Anglican Bishop of Southwark * Mervyn Taylor (born 1931), Irish former politician * Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593–1631), English nobleman convicted of rape and sodomy * Mervyn Warren (born 1964), American film composer, record producer, songwriter, pianist and vocalist * Muff Winwood (born 1943), English songwriter and record producer * Mervyn Wood (1917–2006), Australian rowerPeople with the surname
* Audley Mervyn (1603?–1675), lawyer and politician in Ireland * Audley Mervyn (died 1717), Irish MP for Strabane and County Tyrone - see Tyrone (Parliament of Ireland constituency) * Audley Mervyn (died 1746), Irish MP for County Tyrone - see Tyrone (Parliament of Ireland constituency) * William Mervyn (1912–1976), English actorFictional characters
* Mervyn Bunter, a butler in Dorothy Sayers' stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey * Mervyn Pumpkinhead, in ''The Sandman'' comic book * Mervyn, Sheriff of Rottingham, in the Mel Brooks film ''Robin Hood: Men in Tights'' * Sir Mervyn, a paladin in the video game ''Dragon Quest VII'' * the title character of ''Arthur Mervyn'', a 1799 novel written by Charles Brockden BrownSee also
* Mervyn's, a defunct American department store chain * Merlin (disambiguation) * Mervin (disambiguation) * Merwin (disambiguation)References
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