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 (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"
- Mordecai "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 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 (1930–1995), Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
- Mordechai Kirschenbaum or 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 Mordechaj 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
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
- 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
- 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
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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