Fern (disambiguation)

Fern is the common name for plants in the phylum or division Pterophyta, also known as Filicophyta.

Fern may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

• Capel-le-Ferne, near Folkestone, Kent

Ireland

• Ferns, County Wexford

United States

• Fern, Pleasants County, West Virginia
• Fern, Wisconsin, a town
  • Fern (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Fern Cliff, Tampa, Florida
• Fern Creek, Kentucky
• Fern Park, Florida
• Fern Forest, Hawai'i
• Fern Acres, Hawai'i
• Fern Rock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

People

Given name

• Fern Andra, American actress, film director, script writer and producer
• Fern Britton, English television presenter
• Fern Schumer Chapman, journalist and author
• Fern Coppedge, American impressionist painter
• Fern Emmett, American film actress
• Fern Fitzgerald, American actress
• Fern Gauthier, retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward
• Fern Headley, American professional ice hockey defense player
• Fern Hobbs, American attorney from Oregon who served as private secretary to Governor Oswald West
• Fern Holland, American lawyer killed in the Iraqi conflict
• Ferne Jacobs, American fiber artist and basket maker
• Fern Kinney, American R&B and disco singer
• Ferne Labati, the head women's basketball coach at Seton Hill University
• Fern LeBlanc, professional ice hockey player
• Fern Majeau, retired professional ice hockey player
• Fern Mallis, fashion executive in New York
• Fern Michaels, American author of romance and thriller novels
• Fern Perreault, professional ice hockey player
• Fern Rahmel, Canadian writer and educator
• Fern Rivard, retired Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Fern Shubert, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly
• Fern Shollenberger, third basewoman for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Fern M. Smith, former United States federal judge
• Fern Sutherland, Neozelander actress
• Fern Whelan, English female football central defender

Surname

• Alex Ferns, Scottish actor and media personality
• Charlie Fern, American speechwriter and journalist
• Fanny Fern, pseudonym of American writer Sara Willis Parton
• Fritzi Fern, motion picture actress from Akron, Ohio
• Harold Fern, British president of swimming's world governing body FINA
• Henry Ferne, Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles I
• Joseph J. Fern, first Mayor of Honolulu
• Lyndon Ferns, South African swimmer
• Ronald Ferns, English illustrator, designer, cartoonist and surrealist painter
• Rube Ferns, boxer who held the Welterweight Champion Of the World
• Tan Paey Fern, Singaporean table tennis player
• Tom Fern, English footballer

Other

• FERN, the Forests and the European Union Resource Network
• Fern (letter), in Ogham, a medieval British alphabet
• Fern (TV series)
• Fern ally, a term covering a group of vascular plants that are not flowering plants and not true ferns
• Fern bar, a slang term for an upscale bar or tavern
• Fern green, a colour
• Fern moth, the geometer moth Horisme tersata
• USS Fern, several ships
• Ferns Report, an Irish government inquiry into allegations of clerical sexual abuse in the Irish Catholic Diocese of Ferns
• Fern Arable, a character from E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
• Fern Walters, a character from the animated television series Arthur