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:

People

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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