# 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
### Mononym

* Kevin Thorn, American professional wrestler who used the ring name "Mordecai"

### Surname
#### 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

### Given name
#### 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, 19th century American politician and landowner
* 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