Mordecai (disambiguation)
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Mordecai is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.
Mordecai may also refer to:
- The Mordechai or Mordecai ben Hillel, major Talmudist and posek
- Mordecai or Kevin Fertig, an American professional wrestler
- "Mordecai", a song by Between the Buried and Me
- Mordecai, a pet hawk in the film The Royal Tenenbaums
[edit] People with the surname
- Yitzhak Mordechai, former Israeli general and Minister of Defense
- Douglas E. Mordecai, a character on Dexter's Laboratory
[edit] People with the given name
- Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program in 1986
- Mordecai Manuel Noah, Jewish American playwright
- Mordecai Menahem Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism
- Mordecai Richler, Canadian author
- Mordecai Brown, baseball player
- Mordicai Gerstein, American children's author
- Mordecai Lincoln, uncle of Abraham Lincoln
- Mordechai Jefferson Carver, a character from the film The Hebrew Hammer
[edit] See also
- Yad Mordechai, a kibbutz