Kerr (given name)
Kerr is traditionally an English and Scottish surname, a topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland. Middle English kerr means ‘brushwood wet ground.’ People with the given name Kerr include:
- Kerr Avon, fictional character from Blakes 7
- Kerr Eby, American illustrator
- Kerr Grant, Australian physicist
- Kerr Kriisa, Estonian basketball player
- Kerr Neilson, Australian funds manager
- W. Kerr Scott, North Carolina governor and US senator
- Kerr Smith, American actor