Merton (surname)

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Merton is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alice Merton (born 1993), German singer-songwriter
  • Don Merton (1939–2011), New Zealand conservationist
  • Ernst Merton (1848–1920), American politician and lawyer
  • Hugo Merton (1879–1940), German zoologist
  • Paul Merton (born 1957), British actor and comedian
  • Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American Nobel Prize–winning economist
  • Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist, father of Robert C. Merton
  • Thomas Merton (1915–1968), American Cistercian monk, social activist and author
  • Sir Thomas Ralph Merton KBE FRS (1888–1969), British physicist and art collector
  • Walter de Merton (c. 1205 – 1277), Bishop of Rochester, England and founder of Merton College
  • William Merton
    (1917–2014), British scientist and banker
  • William "Bill" Ralph Merton (1917–2004), British military scientist and merchant banker
  • William Ralph Merton
    (1848–1916), German entrepreneur, founder of the University of Frankfurt and Metallgesellschaft AG
  • Zachary Merton (1843–1915), Anglo-German industrialist and philanthropist