Juozas Adomaitis-Šernas

Juozas Adomaitis-Šernas (August 7, 1859, Šmuiliškė, Augustów Governorate – August 5, 1922, Chicago, USA) was a Lithuanian scientific writer and a book smuggler (knygnešiai) during the Lithuanian press ban.

He contributed to the Lithuanian-language newspapers Varpas and Aušra. In 1895 he moved to the United States where he worked as editor of the Lithuanian weekly Lietuva. In 1900s he published several popular science books about biology, ethnology, geography, history of writing.