Mort is both a given name and surname. Mort is a surname or family name in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

, traditionally found in

North West England North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of England, administrative counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of ...

, especially

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a Historic counties of England, historic county, Ceremonial County, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significa ...

. It is also found in the counties of

Glamorganshire , HQ = Cardiff , Government = Glamorgan County Council (1889–1974) , Origin= , Code = GLA , CodeName = Chapman code , Replace = * West Glamorgan * Mid Glamorgan * South Glamorgan , Mo ...

, Monmouthshire in South Wales, but is also found in many areas of the

. The surname is also found in other countries from

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national id ...

/ Scottish

emigrants Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

particularly the

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, Australia and

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ...

. Mort is also a variant of the surname

Morton Morton may refer to: People * Morton (surname) * Morton (given name) Fictional * Morton Koopa, Jr., a character and boss in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' * A character in the ''Charlie and Lola'' franchise * A character in the 2008 film ''Horton ...

. Mort is a common masculine given name or

nickname A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Commonly used to express affection, a form of endearment, and sometimes amusement, it can also be used to express defamation of character. As a concept, it is ...

hypocorism A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...

variant of

Mortimer Mortimer () is an English surname, and occasionally a given name. Norman origins The surname Mortimer has a Norman origin, deriving from the village of Mortemer, Seine-Maritime, Normandy. A Norman castle existed at Mortemer from an early poi ...

, particularly in the United States. Mort may refer to:

Surname

* Jonathan Mort, Colombian - American actor and former teacher and politician * Chris Mort, English lawyer and former chairman of Newcastle United Football Club *

David Mort David Llewellyn Mort (25 March 1888 – 1 January 1963) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Briton Ferry, Glamorgan, he left school aged thirteen when his father died. After initially working in an outfitters shop, he subsequentl ...

(1888–1963), British politician * Graham Mort, British writer, editor and tutor * Greg Mort (born 1952), American painter * Helen Mort (born 1985), British poet *

Henry Mort Henry Mort (23 December 1818 – 6 September 1900) was a pastoralist, businessman, and politician in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. He was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and a Member of the New South Wales Legi ...

(1818–1900), pastoralist, businessman and politician in what is now Australia *

Ian Mort Ian Carnegie Mort (4 April 1937 – 19 January 1996) was an Australian rules Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 ...

(1937–1996), Australian rules footballer * John Mort (1915–1997), Anglican bishop * Thomas Mort (1897–1967), English footballer * Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816–1878), Australian industrialist * Valzhyna Mort (born Valhyna Martynava in 1981), Belarusian poet

Given name or nickname

Mort Abrahams Mort Abrahams (26 March 1916 – 28 May 2009) was an American film and television producer. Among his credits are nine episodes of spy series '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' and, as associate producer, the films '' Doctor Dolittle'', '' Planet of th ...

(1916–2009), American film and television producer * Mort Castle (born 1946), American horror author and writing teacher * Morton

Mort Cooper Morton Cecil Cooper (March 2, 1913 – November 17, 1958) was an American baseball pitcher who played eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played from 1938 to 1949 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, New York Giants, and Chi ...

(1913–1958), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Mort Crim (born 1935), American author and former broadcast journalist *

Mort Dixon Mort Dixon (March 20, 1892 – March 23, 1956) was an American lyricist. Biography Born in New York City, United States, Dixon began writing songs in the early 1920s, and was active into the 1930s. He achieved success with his first published ef ...

(1892–1956), American lyricist *

Mort Drucker Morris "Mort" Drucker (March 22, 1929 – April 9, 2020) was an American caricaturist and comics artist best known as a contributor for over five decades in '' Mad'', where he specialized in satires on the leading feature films and televisi ...

(born 1929), American caricaturist and comics artist best known for his work in ''Mad'' magazine * Morton

Mort Garson Morton Sanford Garson (20 July 1924 – 4 January 2008) was a Canadian composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s, such as ''Mother Earth's Plantasia'' (1976), He also ...

(1924–2008), Canadian-born composer, arranger, songwriter and pioneer of electronic music * Mort Gerberg (born 1931), American cartoonist and author * Morton Horwitz (born 1938), American legal historian and Harvard law professor nicknamed "Mort the Tort" * Morton Mort Kaer (1902–1992), American football player and pentathlete *

Mort Kondracke Morton Matt Kondracke (; born April 28, 1939) is an American political commentator and journalist. He became well known due to a long stint as a panelist on ''The McLaughlin Group''. Kondracke worked for several major publications, serving for twen ...

(born 1939), American political commentator and journalist *

Mort Künstler Mort Künstler (born August 28, 1927) is an American artist known for his illustrative paintings of historical events, especially of the American Civil War. He was a child prodigy, who, with encouragement from his parents, became a skilled artis ...

(born 1927), American painter *

Mort Landsberg Mortimer William Landsberg Jr. (July 25, 1919 – December 31, 1970) was an American football halfback. He was Jewish. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1941, and for the Los Angeles Dons in 1947. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Landsb ...

(1919–1970), American NFL player * Mortimer Mort Leav (1916–2005), American comic book and advertising artist * Mort Lindsey (1923–2012), American orchestrator, composer, pianist, conductor and musical director * Morton Mort Meskin (1916–1995), American comic book artist *

Mort Mills Mort Mills (born Mortimer Morris Kaplan; January 11, 1919 – June 6, 1993) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over 150 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or the local bad guy in many popular ...

(1919–1993), American actor born Mortimer Morris Kaplan *

Mort Nathan Mort Nathan is an American television producer, screenwriter and film director. He was one of the co-producers and head writers of the comedy show ''The Golden Girls''. Nathan won two Emmy awards, two Golden Globes, and a Writers Guild of America ...

, American television producer, screenwriter and film director best known for his work on ''The Golden Girls'' * Mort O'Shea (1882–1970), Irish Gaelic footballer * Mort Rosenblum (born 1944), American author, editor and journalist * Morton

Mort Sahl Morton Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern comedian. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current event t ...

(born 1927), Canadian-born American comedian and social satirist * Morton

Mort Schell Morton William "Mort" Schell (born 13 July 1943) is a former Australian politician who was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia between 1986 and 1989, representing the seat of Mount Marshall. Born in Goom ...

(born 1943), Australian former politician *

Mort Shuman Mortimer Shuman (12 November 1938 – 2 November 1991) was an American singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hits, including " Viva Las Vegas". He also wrote and sang many songs in French, such a ...

(1938–1991), American singer, pianist and songwriter *

Mort Todd Mort Todd (born Michael Delle-Femine, November 9, 1961) is an American writer and media entrepreneur, best known as an editor-in-chief of '' Cracked'' magazine, and later, Marvel Music. He is owner of Comicfix, a media company that has developed ...

(born 1961), American writer and media entrepreneur, best known as an editor-in-chief of ''Cracked'' magazine * Addison Morton

Mort Walker Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips ''Beetle Bailey'' in 1950 and '' Hi and Lois'' in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strip ...

(1923–2018), American comic strip artist (''Beetle Bailey'', ''Hi and Lois'') * Mortimer

Mort Weisinger Mortimer Weisinger (; April 25, 1915 – May 7, 1978) was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' '' Superman'' during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books. He also co-created such features ...

(1915–1978), American magazine and comic book editor

Fictional characters

Mort ''Mort'' is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth ''Discworld'' novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. The title is the ...

, in the animated films ''

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'', '' Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa'' and '' Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted'' * Morton "Mort" Rainey, the main character of the 1990 short story ''

Secret Window, Secret Garden ''Four Past Midnight'' is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. It is his second book of this type, the first one being ''Different Seasons''. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1 ...

'' by

Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high ...

, and the 2004 film adaptation * Mort, in the Spanish comics series ''

Mort & Phil ''Mort & Phil'' ( es, Mortadelo y Filemón) is a Spanish comic series, published in more than a dozen languages. It appeared for the first time in 1958 in the children's comic-book magazine drawn by Francisco Ibáñez. The series features Mor ...

'' * Mort, a pelican in the American animated television series

Camp Lazlo ''Camp Lazlo'' is an American animated television series created by Joe Murray for Cartoon Network. The series follows Lazlo, an anthropomorphic spider monkey that goes to a camp called "Camp Kidney", a Boy Scout-like summer camp in Pimpleba ...

* Mort, the main character of the Discworld novel ''

'' * Mort Cinder, title character of the Mort Cinder Argentine comic book series *

Mort Goldman ''Mort'' is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth ''Discworld'' novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. The title is the ...

, in the animated television show ''Family Guy'' * Mort Metzger, the sheriff in the television series ''Murder, She Wrote'' * the title character of the video game '' Mort the Chicken'' * Mort Pig, in the ''U.S. Acres'' segments on ''

Garfield and Friends ''Garfield and Friends'' is an American animated television series based on the comic strip ''Garfield'' by Jim Davis. The show aired on CBS as part of its Saturday morning children's lineup from September 17, 1988 to December 10, 1994. The s ...

'' * Uncle Mort, a character in the comic writings of

Peter Tinniswood Peter Tinniswood (21 December 1936 – 9 January 2003) was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular novels. He was born in Liverpool, but grew up above a dry cleaner's on Eastway in Sale, Cheshire. Early ca ...

Morty Smith Mortimer Chauncey "Morty" Smith, Sr. is one of the eponymous characters from the American animated television series ''Rick and Morty''. Created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, and voiced by the former, Morty is a 14-year-old boy loosely i ...

, of the animated television show ''

Rick and Morty , creator = Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon , developer = , voices = {{plainlist, * Justin Roiland * Chris Parnell * Spencer Grammer * Sarah Chalke * Kari Wahlgren , composer = Ryan Elder , count ...

'' *Mort, mortician and friend of

Bob Belcher Robert Samuel "Bob" Belcher Jr. is the main protagonist of the Adult animation, adult-animated sitcom Bob's Burgers created by Loren Bouchard for Fox Broadcasting Company, FOX. He is the often stressed, anxious patriarch of the Belcher family and ...

in animated television series

Bob's Burgers ''Bob's Burgers'' is an American adult animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard that premiered on Fox on January 9, 2011. The show centers on the Belcher family—parents Bob and Linda and their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise—who ...

* Mort, magical door knocker in Sarah J Maas' '' Throne of Glass'' *

Death (DC Comics) Death of the Endless is a fictional personification of death Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe) causes the ...

- Also known as Madame Mort

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