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:
Mononym
- Kevin Thorn, American professional wrestler who used the ring name "Mordecai"
Surname
Mordecai
- Jacob Mordecai, pioneer in education in Colonial America
- Mike Mordecai, major league baseball player
- Leslie R. Mordecai, international commissioner of the Scout Association of Jamaica
- Pamela Mordecai, Jamaican writer, teacher, scholar and poet
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"
- Mordechai Kirschenbaum or Moti Kirschenbaum (born 1939), Israeli journalist, announcer, and TV presenter
- 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 Richler, Canadian author
- Mordecai Roshwald, American science fiction writer
- Mordecai Waxman, Jewish 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 (1930–95), Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
- 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
Fictional characters
- Mordecai, a main character in the animated television series Regular Show
- Mordecai, a character in Gearbox Software's Borderlands
- 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 Science Fiction TV show Time Trax
- Douglas E. Mordecai III, a character on Dexter's Laboratory
- Mordecai, a character in the movie The Cabin in the Woods
Places
- Givat Mordechai, a Jewish neighborhood in southwest-central Jerusalem, Israel
- Kfar Mordechai, a village in central Israel
- Neot Mordechai, a kibbutz in Israel
- Yad Mordechai, a kibbutz in Israel
- Mordecai, a neighborhood in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
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
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