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"

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

Mordecai

 * Mordecai Brown (1876–1948), baseball player nicknamed "Three Finger" or "Miner"
 * 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 Myers (New York politician), American merchant, politician, and military officer
 * Mordecai Richler, Canadian author
 * Mordecai Roshwald, American science fiction writer
 * Mordecai Waxman, 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, American musician
 * Mordechai ben Hillel or The Mordechai, major Talmudist and posek
 * Mordechai Gafni, American philosopher, writer, and former rabbi
 * Mordechai Gur (1930–1995), Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
 * 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 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

Fiction

 * Mordecai, one of two main characters in the animated television series Regular Show
 * Mordecai, a character in Gearbox Software's Borderlands
 * Mordecai Heller, a male feline character in the webcomic Lackadaisy
 * 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 sci-fi television show Time Trax
 * Mordecai, a character in the movie The Cabin in the Woods
 * Rabbi Yohannon ben Mordecai, a character in the novel The Messiah of Septimania by Lee Levin

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
 * Mordecai Lincoln House (Lorane, Pennsylvania), listed on the NRHP in Pennsylvania

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