Morin is a surname of different Romance origins. In northern

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

it derives from the Ladin term for «

mill Mill may refer to: Science and technology * Factory * Mill (grinding) * Milling (machining) * Millwork * Paper mill * Steel mill, a factory for the manufacture of steel * Sugarcane mill * Textile mill * List of types of mill * Mill, the arithmetic ...

» (''molina'' in Latin). In

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

it derives from the ancient

Celtic Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to: Language and ethnicity *pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia **Celts (modern) *Celtic languages **Proto-Celtic language *Celtic music *Celtic nations Sports Foot ...

tribe of

Morini The Morini (Gaulish language, Gaulish: 'sea folk, sailors') were a Belgae, Belgic coastal tribe dwelling in the modern Pas-de-Calais, Pas de Calais region, around present-day Boulogne-sur-Mer, during the La Tène culture, Iron Age and the Roman ...

who once inhabited the coast of modern day

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. The

Gaulish Gaulish is an extinct Celtic languages, Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, ...

ethnonym An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used ...

''Morini'' (sing. ''Morinos'') literally means 'those of the sea', that is to say the 'sea people' or the 'sailors'. It stems from

Proto-Celtic Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is not attested in writing but has been partly Linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed throu ...

''*mori'' 'sea'. It may also refer to:

People

Canada

Albertine Morin-Labrecque Albertine Morin-Labrecque (sometimes Labrecque-Morin) (8 June 1886 – 22 or 25 September 1957) was a Canadian pianist, soprano, composer, and music educator. Her compositional output includes 4 ballets, 2 comic operas, the Chinese opera ''Pas- ...

(1886–1957) Canadian pianist *

Augustin-Norbert Morin Augustin-Norbert Morin (; October 13, 1803 – July 27, 1865) was a Canadien journalist, lawyer, politician, and rebel in Lower Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in the 1830s, as a leading member of the '' ...

(1803–1865), lawyer, judge and politician, joint Premier of the Province of Canada *

Blain Morin Blain Kevin Morin (born September 30, 1960) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Ontario New Democratic Party, New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1998 to 1999 who was elected in a by-election. He rep ...

, Canadian politician and labour union organizer * Claude Morin (ADQ politician) (born 1953), Canadian politician * Claude Morin (PQ politician) (born 1929), Canadian politician * Gérard-Raymond Morin (1940–2024), Canadian politician *

Gilles Morin Gilles Morin (born July 20, 1931) is a retired politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1999, and was briefly a cabinet minister in Ontario. Background Morin was educated a ...

(born 1931), Canadian politician in Ontario *

Guy Paul Morin Guy Paul Morin is a Canadian who was wrongfully convicted of the October 1984 rape and murder of his nine-year-old next-door neighbour, Christine Jessop of Queensville, north of Toronto, Ontario. DNA testing led to a subsequent overturning of ...

, Canadian wrongfully convicted of a 1984 murder *

Jacques-Yvan Morin Jacques-Yvan Morin (July 15, 1931 – July 26, 2023) was a Canadian law professor and politician in Quebec. Morin graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Law with a BCL in 1953, where he was the founder of the ''McGill Law Journal''. H ...

(1931–2023), Canadian politician in Quebec *

Jean-Baptiste Morin (politician) Jean-Baptiste Morin (September 22, 1840 – February 20, 1911) was a Canadian politician. Born in Sainte-Hénédine, Dorchester County, Lower Canada, Morin moved to the United States in 1856 and lived there for thirty-two years. Returning ...

(1840–1911), Canadian politician *

Karl Morin-Strom Karl Arvid Morin-Strom (born June 27, 1952) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1990 as a member of the New Democratic Party. Background Strom was born in Sault Ste. Marie, O ...

(also Karl Strom) (born 1952), Canadian politician in Ontario *

Marie-Eve Morin Marie-Eve Morin is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. From 2012 to 2018 she was the editor-in-chief of '' Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy''. Morin is known for her work on post-s ...

, Canadian philosopher *

Marie-Lucie Morin Marie-Lucie Morin is a Canadian public official, lawyer, and former diplomat and a former Committee member of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency of Canada, and was also the same for its predecessor the Security Intelligence Revi ...

, Canadian public official and diplomat *

Pat Morin Patrick Ryan Morin is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in computational geometry and data structures. He is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. Education and career Morin was educated at Carleton Univer ...

, Canadian computer scientist *

Pete Morin Joseph Pierre Marius "Pete, Pit" Morin (December 8, 1915 – January 5, 2000) was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He played 32 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens during the 1941–42 season. The rest of his career, wh ...

(1915–2000), Canadian hockey player *

Randy Charles Morin Randy Charles Morin is a Canadian web publisher and the former chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that publishes the RSS 2.0 specification. Randy authored thRSS autodiscovery specificationand contributed to thRSS profile He also runs the T ...

(born 1969), Canadian author and blogger *

René Morin Louis-Simon-René Morin (July 27, 1883 – July 16, 1955) was head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during World War II from 1940 to 1944, and was the first francophone and native-born Canadian to head the CBC. Born in Saint-Hyacinth ...

(1883–1955), head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during World War II *

Robert Morin Robert Morin (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 2009, he received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Biography Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessi ...

(born 1949), Canadian film director *

Samuel Morin Samuel Morin (born July 12, 1995) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Flyers in the first round, 11th overall, of the 2013 NHL ...

(born 1995), Canadian ice hockey player *

Victor Morin Victor Morin (August 15, 1865 – September 30, 1960) was a Canadian notary, politician, and writer. Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East, Morin studied at the Université Laval de Montréal. In 1890, he started working as a notary in his un ...

, inventor of the

Morin code The Code Morin is the text ''Procédures des assemblées délibérantes'', first published in 1938 by Victor Morin. The code details procedures for organizational meetings, and was inspired by ''Robert's Rules of Order''. It is the principal pro ...

, a parliamentary authority used mainly in Quebec

France

* Arthur Morin (1795–1880), French physicist *

Bernard Morin Bernard Morin (; 3 March 1931 in Shanghai, China – 12 March 2018) was a French mathematician, specifically a topologist. Early life and education Morin lost his sight at the age of six due to glaucoma, but his blindness did not prevent him ...

(1931–2018), French mathematician, especially a topologist *

Edgar Morin Edgar Morin (; ; né Nahoum; born 8 July 1921) is a French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought" ('' pensée complexe''), and for his scholarly contribut ...

(also Edgar Nahoum) (born 1921), French philosopher and sociobiologist *

Émilienne Morin Émilienne Léontine Morin (29 October 1901 – 14 February 1991) was a French anarchist activist, journalist and stenographer. Born into an anarcho-syndicalist family, she joined the French anarchist movement at an early age, going on to wri ...

(1901–1991) French

anarcho-syndicalist Anarcho-syndicalism is an anarchist organisational model that centres trade unions as a vehicle for class conflict. Drawing from the theory of libertarian socialism and the practice of syndicalism, anarcho-syndicalism sees trade unions as both ...

, shorthand typist, partner of

Buenaventura Durruti José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish anarchist revolutionary involved with the CNT and the FAI in the periods before and during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. Durruti played an influe ...

. *

Hervé Morin Hervé Morin (; born 17 August 1961) is a French politician of the Centrists who has been serving as the first President of the Regional Council of Normandy since January 2016. Under President Nicolas Sarkozy, he was the Minister of Defence. ...

(born 1961), Minister of Defence of France * Jean Morin (artist) (c.1595 or 1605–1650), French baroque artist *

Jean Morin (theologian) Jean Morin (Latin: ''Joannes Morinus'') (1591 – 28 February 1659) was a French theologian and biblical scholar. His linguistic studies of biblical manuscript material, newly available, were taken to polemical lengths. Life He was born in Blois ...

(also Joannes Morinus) (1591–1659), French theologian and biblical scholar *

Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer) Jean-Baptiste Morin (2 February 1677 – 27 April 1745) was a French composer and the ''Ordinaire de la Musique'' to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. From 1719 to 1731 Morin was ''Ma ...

(1677–1745), French composer *

Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician) Jean-Baptiste Morin (February 23, 1583 – November 6, 1656), also known by the Latinized name as Morinus, was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. Life and work Born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, in the Lyonnais, he began studyi ...

(also Morinus) (1583–1656), French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer

Italy

Enrico Morin Enrico Morin (1841–1910) was an Italian admiral and politician who held several cabinet posts. Early life and education Morin was born in Genoa on 5 May 1841. His father was an officer of the commissariat of the royal navy of the Kingdom of ...

(1841–1910), Italian admiral and politician

Sweden

* Linus Morin (born 1987), Swedish ice hockey player

United Kingdom

* Charles Morin, ''nom de plume'' used by

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...

* Nea Morin (1905–1986), British rock climber

United States

* Andy Morin, American producer and musician with

Death Grips Death Grips is an American experimental hip-hop band formed in 2010 in Sacramento, California. The group consists of producers Zach Hill (drums), Andy Morin (keyboard), and vocalist Stefan Burnett, also known as MC Ride. Though he is not the ...

Brent Morin Brent Morin (born August 31, 1986) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was a panelist in the sixth season of '' Chelsea Lately'' and played Justin Kearney on the NBC sitcom '' Undateable'', Matt on the Netflix series '' Merry Happy W ...

, American comedian, stand-up comic and actor * Henry Louis Morin (1899-1949), American farmer, labor union activist, and politician *

Jeremy Morin Jeremy Morin (born April 16, 1991) is an American former professional ice hockey left winger. Morin played major junior hockey for the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the team he was drafted from in the second round, 45th o ...

, American ice hockey player * John M. Morin (1868–1942), American congressman from Pennsylvania *

Lee Morin Lee Miller Emile Morin (born September 9, 1952) is a United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. He flew on STS-110 in 2002. He is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees along with astronaut Story Musgrave. Personal da ...

(born 1952), American NASA astronaut * Mike Morin (born 1991), American baseball player * Parker Morin (born 1991), American baseball coach * Robert E. Morin, chief judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia *

Roger Morin Roger Paul Morin (March 7, 1941 – October 31, 2019) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the third Bishop of Biloxi. Pope Francis accepted his resignation on December 16, 2016. Early life and education Roger Morin w ...

(1941–2019), American Roman Catholic bishop * William H. Morin, American soldier awarded Medal of Honor

Notes and references

Morin-Heights Morin-Heights () is a town in the Laurentian Mountains region of Quebec, Canada. It is west of Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Saint-Sauveur and north of Lachute; municipally, it is within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Regional Co ...