Moritz

Moritz is the German equivalent of the name Maurice. It may refer to:

Given name

 * Saint Maurice, also called Saint Moritz, the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century
 * Prince Moritz of Hesse (2007), the son of Donatus, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse
 * Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau (1712–1760), a German prince of the House of Ascania from the Anhalt-Dessau branch
 * Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (1926–2013), the head of the House of Hesse, pretendant to the throne of Finland, son of Prince Philip, Landgrave of Hesse
 * Moritz, Prince of Dietrichstein (1775–1864)
 * Moritz Becker, American politician
 * Moritz Benedikt (1849–1920), Jewish-Austrian newspaper editor
 * Moritz Borman, film producer
 * Moritz Michael Daffinger (1790–1849), Austrian miniature painter and sculptor
 * Moritz Duschak (1815–1890), Moravian rabbi and writer
 * Moritz Schlick, German philosopher and physicist
 * Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter
 * Moritz Seider, German ice hockey player
 * Moritz Steinla (1791–1858), German engraver
 * Moritz Wagner (1813–1887), German explorer, collector, geographer and natural historian
 * Moritz Wagner (basketball) (born 1997), German basketball player

Surname

 * A. F. Moritz (born 1947), American poet, teacher and scholar
 * André Moritz (born 1986), Brazilian attacking midfielder
 * Bruno Moritz (1900–?), German-Ecuadorian chess master
 * Carl Moritz (1863–1944), German architect and real estate entrepreneur
 * Christoph Moritz (born 1990), German footballer
 * Elisabeth Moritz, mother of Catherine I of Russia
 * Halvar Moritz, Swedish cross-country skier
 * Helmut Moritz (1933–2022), Austrian geodeticist
 * Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793), German author, editor and essayist
 * Julius L. Moritz (1830–1909) and Morris Moritz (about 1836–1903), German brothers in Los Angeles
 * Louisa Moritz (1936–2019), Cuban-born American actress
 * Marie Elisabeth Moritz (1860–1925), German painter
 * Mathias Moritz (born 1988), German footballer
 * Michael Moritz (born 1954), Welsh venture capitalist
 * Nancy Moritz (born 1960), justice on the Kansas Supreme Court
 * Neal H. Moritz (born 1959), American film producer
 * Nils Moritz (born 1943), Swedish actor
 * Ralf Moritz (born 1941), German sinologist
 * Robert Edouard Moritz (1868–1940), German-American mathematician
 * Paulus Moritz (1869–1942), German Roman Catholic cleric
 * Sabine Moritz (born 1969), German painter and graphic designer
 * Theodore L. Moritz (1892–1982), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
 * William Moritz (1941–2004), film historian
 * Wilhelm Moritz (Luftwaffe officer) (1913–2010), German Luftwaffe ace
 * Yunna Moritz (born 1937), Soviet and Russian poet

Fictional characters

 * a title character of Max and Moritz, an 1865 German-language illustrated story by Wilhelm Busch
 * Moritz Stiefel, lead male role in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening
 * Moritz Benayoun, human male doctor on the TV series Star Trek: Picard

Other uses

 * Moritz, Germany, a village and a former municipality, now part of the town of Zerbst in Saxony-Anhalt
 * Moritz College of Law, a public law school at Ohio State University
 * Moritz (beer), a Spanish (Catalan) beer brand, founded by Alsatian immigrant Louis Moritz Trautmann