Shorter

Shorter may refer to:

As a place name

 * Shorter, Alabama, a town located in Macon County, Alabama, United States

As a surname

 * Alan Shorter (1932–1988), American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
 * Brian Shorter (born 1968), American former basketball player
 * Clement Shorter (1857–1926), English journalist
 * Clinton Shorter (born 1971), Canadian film and television composer
 * Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), Irish poet and sculptor
 * Edward Shorter (1767–1836), British inventor
 * Eli Sims Shorter (1823–1879), American politician
 * Frank Shorter (born 1947), American athlete
 * Jim Shorter (1938–2000), American football player
 * John Gill Shorter (1818–1872), American politician
 * Justin Shorter (born 2000), American football player
 * Ken Shorter (born 1945), Australian actor
 * Laurence Shorter (born 1970), American author and comedian
 * Richard Shorter (1906–1984), English cricketer
 * Rick Shorter (1934–2017), American musician and record producer
 * Shannon Shorter (born 1989), American basketball player
 * Stuart Shorter, disabled homeless man from Cambridge, England, about whom the biography "Stuart: A Life Backwards" was written
 * Susie Lankford Shorter (1859–1912), American educator
 * Wayne Shorter (1933–2023), American jazz saxophonist and composer

Other uses

 * The comparative form of short
 * Shorter University, an American four year, co-educational college located in Rome, Georgia, United States
 * Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a two-volume, scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary
 * Westminster Shorter Catechism or "Shorter Catechism", a set of three Christian religious texts dating from the 1640s