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Mervyn is a masculine given name and occasionally a surname which is of Old Welsh origin, with elements mer, probably meaning "marrow", and myn, meaning "eminent".
Despite the misconception of the letter 'V' being an English spelling, through Roman occupation of Britain, the Welsh language (at least for spelling) was Latinised and through centuries of evolution of the Welsh language, the modern Welsh spelling for Mervyn is Merfyn.




People with the given name


Mervyn or Merfyn Frych, king of Gwynedd (c. 825 – c. 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 Bishop (born 1945), professional photographer, the first Aboriginal Australian to work on a metropolitan daily newspaper
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 to 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 (c. 1931-2017), 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 rower




People with the surname


Audley Mervyn (1603?–1675), lawyer and politician in Ireland
Audley Mervyn (died 1717), Irish MP for Strabane and County Tyrone - see County Tyrone (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Audley Mervyn (died 1746), Irish MP for County Tyrone - see County Tyrone (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
William Mervyn (1912–1976), English actor




Fictional 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 Brown




See also


Mervyn's, a defunct American department store chain
Merlin (disambiguation)
Mervin (disambiguation)
Merwin (disambiguation)




References

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• Mervyn King
• Mervyn LeRoy
• Tonight or Never (film 1931)
• Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan
• Mervyn S. Bennion
• Hi Nellie!
• R. M. Hare
• Orang Māori
• The World Changes
• Random Harvest (film)
• Mervyn
• Mervyn's
• Mervyn Meggitt
• Mervyn Pike
• Mervyn Peake
• Mervyn Wall
• Mervyn Wingfield (disambiguation)
• Mervyn King
• Mervyn Stockwood
• Merv Griffin