Morton (given name)

Morton is a masculine given name which may refer to:

  • Mort Cooper (1913-1958), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Morton DaCosta (1914–1989), American theatre and film director, film producer, writer and actor
  • Morton Downey (1901-1985), American singer
  • Morton Downey Jr. (1932-2001), American singer, songwriter and television talk show host, son of the above
  • Morton Feldman (1926–1987), American composer, a major figure in 20th-century classical music
  • Morton P. Fisher (1897–1965), United States Tax Court judge
  • Mort Garson (1924–2008), Canadian-born composer, arranger, songwriter and pioneer of electronic music
  • Morton Gould (1913–1996), American composer, conductor, arranger and pianist
  • Morton Ira Greenberg (1933–2021), United States Court of Appeals judge
  • Morton Horwitz (born 1938), American legal historian and Harvard law professor
  • Morton C. Hunter (1825-1896), American Union Army brevet brigadier general and politician
  • Mort Kaer (1902-1992), American football player and pentathlete
  • Morton Marcus (1936–2009), American poet and author
  • Morton M. McCarver (1807–1875), American politician and pioneer in the West
  • Morton McMichael (1807-1879), American newspaper publisher and politician
  • Mort Meskin (1916-1995), American comic book artist
  • Morton Peck (1871-1959), American botanist
  • Mort Sahl (1927–2021), Canadian-born American comedian and social satirist
  • Morton O. Schapiro (born 1953), American economist and president of Northwestern University
  • Mort Schell (born 1943), Australian former politician
  • Morton Sobell (1917–2018), American engineer and spy for the Soviet Union
  • Morton Subotnick (born 1933), American composer of electronic music

See also

  • Morten, a common given name in Denmark and Norway
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