Moritz is the German equivalent of the name Maurice. It may refer to:

People

Given name

  • Saint Maurice, also called Saint Moritz, the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century
  • Prince Moritz of Hesse (2007), the son of Donatus, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse
  • Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau (1712–1760), a German prince of the House of Ascania from the Anhalt-Dessau branch
  • Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (1926–2013), the head of the House of Hesse, pretendant to the throne of Finland, son of Prince Philip, Landgrave of Hesse
  • Moritz, Prince of Dietrichstein (1775–1864)
  • Moritz Becker, American politician
  • Moritz Benedikt (1849–1920), Jewish-Austrian newspaper editor
  • Moritz Borman, film producer
  • Moritz Michael Daffinger (1790–1849), Austrian miniature painter and sculptor
  • Moritz Duschak (1815–1890), Moravian rabbi and writer
  • Moritz Körner (born 1990), German politician of the Free Democratic Party, Member of the European Parliament
  • Moritz Schlick, German philosopher and physicist
  • Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter
  • Moritz Seider, German ice hockey player
  • Moritz Steinla (1791–1858), German engraver
  • Moritz Wagner (1813–1887), German explorer, collector, geographer and natural historian
  • Moritz Wagner (basketball) (born 1997), German basketball player

Surname

  • A. F. Moritz (born 1947), American poet, teacher and scholar
  • André Moritz (born 1986), Brazilian attacking midfielder
  • Bruno Moritz (1900–?), German-Ecuadorian chess master
  • Carl Moritz (1863–1944), German architect and real estate entrepreneur
  • Christoph Moritz (born 1990), German footballer
  • Halvar Moritz, Swedish cross-country skier
  • Helmut Moritz (1933–2022), Austrian geodeticist
  • Jacob Moritz (1849–1910), German-born American brewer
  • Julius L. Moritz (1830–1909) and Morris Moritz (about 1836–1903), German brothers in Los Angeles
  • Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793), German author, editor and essayist
  • Louisa Moritz (1936–2019), Cuban-born American actress
  • Mathias Moritz (born 1988), German footballer
  • Michael Moritz (born 1954), Welsh venture capitalist
  • Nancy Moritz (born 1960), justice on the Kansas Supreme Court
  • Neal H. Moritz (born 1959), American film producer
  • Nils Moritz (born 1943), Swedish actor
  • Paulus Moritz (1869–1942), German Roman Catholic cleric
  • Robert Edouard Moritz (1868–1940), German-American mathematician
  • Sabine Moritz (born 1969), German painter and graphic designer
  • Theodore L. Moritz (1892–1982), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • Wilhelm Moritz (1913–2010), German Luftwaffe pilot
  • Yunna Moritz (born 1937), Soviet and Russian poet

Fictional characters

  • a title character of Max and Moritz, an 1865 German-language illustrated story by Wilhelm Busch
  • Moritz Stiefel, lead male role in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening
  • Moritz Benayoun, human male doctor on the TV series Star Trek: Picard

Other uses

  • Moritz, Germany, a village and a former municipality, now part of the town of Zerbst in Saxony-Anhalt
  • Moritz College of Law, a public law school at Ohio State University
  • Moritz (beer), a Spanish (Catalan) beer brand, founded by Alsatian immigrant Louis Moritz Trautmann

See also

  • St. Moritz (disambiguation)
  • Moriz, another given name and surname

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