Mordecai (disambiguation)

Mordecai is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.

Mordecai or Mordechai may also refer to:

People

Mononym

• Kevin Thorn, American professional wrestler who used the ring name "Mordecai"

Surname

Mordecai

• Jacob Mordecai (1762–1838), pioneer in education in Colonial America
• Mike Mordecai, major league baseball player
• Moses Cohen Mordecai (1804–1888), American businessman, politician, parnas and owner of the Mordecai Steamship Line
• Leslie R. Mordecai, international commissioner of the Scout Association of Jamaica
• Pamela Mordecai, Jamaican writer, teacher, scholar and poet
• Tanner Mordecai (born c. 2000), American football player

Mordechai

• Yitzhak Mordechai, former Israeli general and Minister of Defense
• Yoav Mordechai, Israeli Brigadier General

Given name

Mordecai

• Mordecai Brown (1876–1948), baseball player nicknamed "Three Finger" or "Miner"
• Moti Daniel (born 1963), Israeli basketball player
• Mordecai Davidson (1845–1940), professional baseball owner and manager in the late 1880s
• Mordecai Lawner, American actor
• Mordecai Lincoln, uncle of Abraham Lincoln
• Mordecai Manuel Noah, Jewish American playwright
• Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism
• Mordecai Meirowitz, Master Mind board game inventor
• Mordecai Myers (New York politician), American merchant, politician, and military officer
• Mordecai Richler, Canadian author
• Mordecai Roshwald, American science fiction writer
• Mordecai Waxman, American Rabbi, responsible for inter-faith dialogue with The Vatican

Mordicai

• Mordicai Gerstein, American children's author

Mordechai

• Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander of Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Mordechai Ben David, Jewish American musician
• Mordechai ben Hillel or The Mordechai, major Talmudist and posek
• Mordechai Gur (1930–1995), Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
• Moti Kirschenbaum (born 1939), Israeli journalist, announcer, and TV presenter
• Mordechai Shani, Director General of the Sheba Medical Center and 2009 Israel Prize recipient
• Mordechai Shapiro, American singer
• Mordechai Spiegler (born 1944), Israeli football player and manager
• Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician

Mordechaj

• Dawid Mordechaj Apfelbaum (died 1943), officer in the Polish Army and a commander of the Jewish Military Union
• Mordechaj Gebirtig (1877–1942), Polish Yiddish poet and songwriter
• Mordechaj Józef Leiner (1801–1854), rabbinic Hasidic thinker and founder of the Izhbitza-Radzyn dynasty of Hasidic Judaism
• Mordechaj Maisel (1528–1601), philanthropist and communal leader in Prague
• Chaim Rumkowski (1877–1944), head of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Łódź Ghetto
• Mordechaj Spektor (1858–1925), Yiddish novelist and editor from the Haskalah period
• Mordechaj Tenenbaum (1916–1943), member of the Jewish Combat Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa) and leader of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising

Fiction

• Mordecai, one of two main characters in the animated television series Regular Show
• Mordecai, a character in Gearbox Software's Borderlands
• Mordecai Heller, a male feline character in the webcomic Lackadaisy
• Mordechai Jefferson Carver, a character from the film The Hebrew Hammer
• Mordecai Green, fictional lawyer for the poor in John Grisham's The Street Lawyer
• Dr. Mordecai Sahmbi, character from the sci-fi television show Time Trax
• Mordecai, a character in the movie The Cabin in the Woods
• Rabbi Yohannon ben Mordecai, a character in the novel The Messiah of Septimania by Lee Levin

Places

• Givat Mordechai, a Jewish neighborhood in southwest-central Jerusalem, Israel
• Kfar Mordechai, a village in central Israel
• Mordecai Place Historic District, a neighborhood in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina
• Neot Mordechai, a kibbutz in Israel
• Yad Mordechai, a kibbutz in Israel

Buildings

• Mordecai House (Raleigh, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
• Mordecai Lincoln House (Springfield, Kentucky), listed on the NRHP in Kentucky
• Mordecai Lincoln House (Lorane, Pennsylvania), listed on the NRHP in Pennsylvania

Other uses

• "Mordecai", a song by Between the Buried and Me from the 2003 album The Silent Circus
• Mordecai, a pet hawk in the film The Royal Tenenbaums
• Mordecai (band), a synth pop group from Portland, Oregon
• Mordechai (album), a 2020 studio album by Khruangbin

See also

• Mortdecai, a 1970s series of novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli
• Mortdecai (film), a 2015 film starring Johnny Depp