Merv (disambiguation)

Merv is a Central Asian city.

People

Merv may be a nickname for Mervin or Mervyn, variants of Marvin:

• Merv Connors (1914–2006), American baseball player
• Merv Cross, Australian rugby league player
• Merv Denton (1919–1980), Australian rugby league player
• Merv Everett (1917–1988)
• Merv Gordon, New Zealand association footballer
• Merv Griffin (1925–2007), American TV personality
• Merv Harvey (1918–1995), Australian cricketer
• Merv Hicks (born 1943), Welsh rugby union and rugby league player
• Merv Hobbs (born 1942), Australian rules footballer
• Merv Hughes (born 1961), Australian cricketer
• Merv Hunter (1926–2013)
• Merv Jackson, American basketball player
• Merv Johnson (born 1923), Canadian politician
• Merv Krakau (born 1951), American NFL football player
• Merv Leitch (1926–1990), Canadian politician
• Merv McIntosh (1922–2010), Australian rules footballer
• Merv Mosely (born 1966), American football player
• Merv Neagle (1958–2012), Australian rules footballer
• Merv Pregulman (1922–2012), American NFL football player
• Merv Rettenmund (born 1943), American baseball player
• Merv Richards (1930–2018), New Zealand pole vaulter
• Merv Rose, Australian tennis player
• Merv Rylance, Australian rugby union player
• Merv Shea (1900–1953), American baseball player
• Merv Tweed (born 1955), Canadian politician
• Merv Wallace (1916–2008), New Zealand cricketer
• Merv Warren, American musician and record producer
• Merv Wellington (1940–2003), New Zealand politician
• Merv Wood, Australian rower
• Merv Batt is the birth name of professional wrestler Steve Rickard

In fiction

• Merv Pumpkinhead, a character in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series
• "Merv the Perv", a recurring character in Saturday Night Live

Places

• Merv (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province), historical region
• Maru (Irbid), Marw was the 1596 name of this Jordanian village

MERV

• Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV), a measurement scale for the effectiveness of air filters