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Vereker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *
Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire) (1768 – 11 November 1842), known as Charles Vereker until 1817, was an Irish soldier and politician. Background Gort was the son of Thomas Vereker by Juliana, daughter of C ...
(1768–1842), Irish soldier and politician * Colin Leopold Prendergast Vereker, 8th Viscount Gort (1916–1995), peer and
Isle of Man The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Govern ...
politician * Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker (1850–1900), Royal Navy officer and hydrographic surveyor * Hugh Vereker, secretive novelist in Henry James's '' The Figure in the Carpet'' (1896) *
Gordon Vereker Sir George Gordon Medlicott Vereker (11 December 1889 – 14 March 1976) was a British diplomat. Roving diplomat Vereker was born in County Galway, Ireland to a prominent and wealthy Protestant "Ascendancy" family, the son of Sir George Medlico ...
(1889–1976), British diplomat * John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1790–1865), peer and politician * John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849–1902), peer * John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946), peer and senior
British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...
officer * John Michael Medlicott Vereker (born 1944), British civil servant and
Governor of Bermuda The governor of Bermuda (officially Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Somers Isles (alias the Islands of Bermuda)) is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. For the purposes of this arti ...
* Julian Charles Prendergast Vereker (1945–2000), British designer of
hi-fi High fidelity (hi-fi or, rarely, HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound. It is popular with audiophiles and home audio enthusiasts. Ideally, high-fidelity equipment has inaudible noise and distortion, and a flat (neutral, uncolored) ...
audio equipment * Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort (1888–1975), peer * John James "Tommy" Vereker (1893–1974), American baseball player


See also

* Vereker Monteith Hamilton (1856–1931), Scottish artist of military and historical works *
Viscount Gort Viscount Gort is the title of two peerages in British and Irish history. Gort is a small town in County Galway in the West of Ireland. The original title was in the Peerage of Ireland and is extant. A viscountcy with the same title as the Irish ...
* Vereker, Ontario, town in southwestern Ontario, Canada {{surname