Mortimer (disambiguation)
Mortimer is an English surname.
Mortimer may also refer to:
People with the given name
- Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001), American philosopher, educator and author
- Mortimer Caplin (born 1916), American lawyer and educator
- Mortimer Collins (1827–1876), English poet and novelist
- Mortimer Davis (1866–1928), Canadian businessman and philanthropist
- Mortimer Durand (1850-1924), British diplomat and civil servant in British India
- Mortimer Hogan (1862–1923), Major League Baseball outfielder
- Mortimer Dormer Leggett (1821–1896), American lawyer, school administrator, professor and Union Army major general during the American Civil War
- Mortimer Lewis (1796–1879), English architect and surveyor; Colonial Architect in New South Wales
- Mortimer Menpes (1855–1938), Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator
- Mortimer Planno (1929-2006), drummer and Rastafari elder best known as the Rasta teacher of Bob Marley
- Mortimer R. Proctor (1889-1968), American politician; 66th governor of Vermont
- Mortimer Sackler (1916–2010), American physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Mortimer L. Schiff (1877-1931), American banker and Boy Scouts of America leader
- Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976), British archaeologist
- Mortimer Zuckerman (born 1937), Canadian-born American businessman
Places
North America
- Mortimer, California, a former settlement
- Mortimer, North Carolina, a ghost town
- Mortimer, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Mortimer, New Brunswick, Canada, an unincorporated community
United Kingdom
- Mortimer Common, Berkshire, England, a village generally referred to as Mortimer
- Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire, England, a village and civil parish
- Mortimer West End, Hampshire, England, a village and civil parish
- Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, England, a small town and civil parish
- Mortimer Trail, a long distance footpath and recreational walk in Shropshire and Herefordshire, England
Fictional characters
- Mortimer, a name sometimes given to the Grim Reaper (see Death (personification)), with its origin in the Latin word morti (to die)
- Mortimer Mouse, a Disney character
- Mortimer Snerd, a character developed by Edgar Bergen
- Mortimer Brewster, main character in Arsenic and Old Lace
- Mortimer, the eponymous protagonist of Terry Pratchett's novel Mort
- Mortimer Delvile, one of the main protagonists in Cecilia (Burney novel)
- Mortimer Folchart, in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart fantasy trilogy
- Mortimer, a Robert Munsch character and story
- Mortimer, a fictional criminal in Italian comic book Zagor
- Mortimer Goth, from The Sims series
Other uses
- Baron Mortimer, a title in the Peerage of England
- Mortimer's disease, a skin disease
- Ruy Lopez, Mortimer Trap, a chess opening trap
See also
- Cleobury Mortimer, a town in Shropshire
- Stratfield Mortimer, a village in Berkshire, England