Kern

The taxon authority Kern or Керн may refer to:

• Eduard Eduardovich Kern (1855–1938, E.E.Kern), Russian (Soviet) botanist
• Frank Dunn Kern (1883–1973, F.Kern), mycologist
• Friedrich Kern (1850–1925, Kern), Polish botanist
• Johannes Hendrikus Kern (1875–1933, J.Kern), Dutch botanist
• John Kern Strecker (1875–1933), U.S. naturalist
• John Philip Kern (1939–2023), U.S. palaeontologist