Mordaunt

Mordaunt is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

 * Charles Mordaunt (disambiguation), several earls and baronets
 * Harry Mordaunt (1663–1720), English lieutenant-general
 * Henry Mordaunt (Royal Navy officer) (died 1710), English politician and Royal Navy captain
 * David Mordaunt (born 1937), English former cricketer
 * Elinor Mordaunt (1872–1942), English author and traveler
 * Gerald Mordaunt (1873–1959), English cricketer
 * Harriet Mordaunt (1848–1906), wife of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, and alleged mistress of Edward VII
 * Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (1621–1697), English soldier, peer, and courtier
 * Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th Baronet (1867–1939), English cricketer
 * John Mordaunt (disambiguation), numerous persons
 * Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (1538-1601), English peer and politician
 * Norman Mordaunt, co-founder in 1967 of British loudspeaker company Mordaunt-Short
 * Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1842) (1842–1923), English cricketer and clergyman
 * Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1876) (1876–1949), English cricketer
 * Penny Mordaunt (born 1973), British politician
 * Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), British officer and poet

Given name

 * Mordaunt Bisset (1825–c. 1884), British politician and Member of Parliament
 * Mordaunt Cracherode (died 1773 or possibly 1768), British Army officer
 * J. Mordaunt Crook (born 1937), English architectural historian
 * Mordaunt Doll (1888–1966), English cricketer
 * Mordaunt Hall (1878–1973), American film critic
 * Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet (c. 1740–1815), English country gentleman
 * Mordaunt Shairp (1887–1939), English dramatist and screenwriter

Fictional characters

 * Mordaunt, a main villain of the 1845 novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
 * Mordaunt, the central male character in the 1800 novel Mordaunt, Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners in Various Countries; including the memoirs of a French Lady of Quality by John Moore (Scottish physician)
 * Mordaunt Heatherstone, son of General John Berthier Heatherstone in the 1888 novel The Mystery of Cloomber by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Mordaunt Reeves, a character in The Viaduct Murder by Ronald Knox, 1925.
 * Mordaunt Mertoun, one of the protagonists in Scott's novel The Pirate.