Bergeron
family name
Bergeron is a surname of French origin.
The name Bergeron may be derived from the Old German word berg, meaning hill or mountain. It may also be derived from the old French berger, meaning shepherd.
People named Bergeron
Joseph Bergeron, American cartoonist
Bryan Bergeron, American author
Dan Bergeron, American politician
David Bergeron (born 1981), American football player
David Bergeron (historian) (born 1938), American literary historian
Élisabeth Bergeron (1851–1936), Canadian Venerated religious servant
Jean-Claude Bergeron (born 1968), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
Jean-François Bergeron (boxer), Canadian boxer
John J. M. Bergeron, Canadian research scientist and Rhodes Scholar
John Bergeron, surrealist artist
Marc-André Bergeron (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Marilyn Bergeron (born 1983), Canadian missing person
Matthew Bergeron (born 2000), Canadian gridiron player
Michel Bergeron (born 1946), coach of the NHL Quebec Nordiques and New York Rangers during the 1980s
Patrice Bergeron (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey centre in the National Hockey League
Paul Bergeron, American politician
Peter Bergeron, professional baseball player
René Bergeron (1890–1971), French actor
Stéphane Bergeron, Canadian politician
Suzanne Bergeron, Canadian abstract painter
Tom Bergeron (born 1955), American television personality
Tor Bergeron, Swedish meteorologist
Wayne Bergeron, American trumpet player
William A. Bergeron, American politician
In fiction
"Harrison Bergeron" is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, and the name of the principal character
Merlí Bergeron and his son Bruno Bergeron are characters in the Catalan television series, Merlí.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bergeron” as family name. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as family name. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21508668. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981, 1938, 1851 and 1936.
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