Maurice (name)

Maurice is a traditionally masculine given name, also used as a surname. It originates as a French name derived from the Latin Mauritius or Mauricius and was subsequently used in other languages. Its popularity is due to Mauritius, a saint of the Theban Legion (died 287). Mauritius is otherwise attested as a given name of the Roman Empire period, in origin meaning "one from Mauritania", i.e. "the Moor".

Forms in other languages include: Latvian Māris, Spanish Mauricio, Portuguese Maurício, Italian Maurizio, Dutch Maurits, Greek Μαυρίκιος (Mavrikios), Russian Маврикий (Mavrikiy), German Moritz, Czech Mořic, English Morris. In the form Morris it is also used as a secularized version of the Jewish name Moishe.^{[citation needed]}

Given name[]

Late Antiquity to Middle Ages

• Saint Maurice also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius (died 287), Roman legionnaire and Christian martyr
• Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
• Maurice (bishop) (died 1107), bishop of London, Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England
• Maurice of Carnoet (1117–1191), French abbot and saint
• Maurice, Count of Oldenburg (fl. 1169–1211), count of Oldenburg
• Mauritius (Dean of Armagh) (fl. 13th century), Irish cleric, Dean of Armagh 1238
• Maurice of Inchaffray (14th century), Scottish bishop
• Maurice Spata (14th to early 15th century), Albanian ruler of Arta from 1399 to 1414/15

Early Modern

• Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521–1553), German Saxon nobleman
• Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1551–1612), duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
• Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel or Maurice the Learned (1572–1632), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
• Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), stadtholder of the Netherlands
• Maurice of Savoy (1593–1657), prince of Savoy and a cardinal
• Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (1619–1681), duke of Saxe-Zeitz
• Maurice of the Palatinate (1620–1652), Count Palatine of the Rhine
• William Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1649–1691), prince of Nassau-Siegen

Modern

• Maurice of Battenberg (1891–1914), prince of the Battenberg family and member of the British Royal Family
• Maurice of the Netherlands (1843–1850), prince of Orange-Nassau
• Maurice Anderson (born 1975), American football player
• Maurice Binder (1918–1991), American film title designer
• Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist
• Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), English classical scholar and academic
• Maurice de Bus (1907–1963), French sculptor
• Maurice Riemer Calhoun, Sr. (1909–1994), American politician
• Maurice Chevalier, (1888–1972), French actor, singer and entertainer
• Maurice Cowling (1926–2005), British historian
• Maurice Crum (disambiguation), multiple people
• Maurice Deligne (1861–1939), French politician
• Maurice Duplessis (1890–1959), 16th Premier of Quebec, Canada
• Maurice Evans (disambiguation), multiple people
• Maurice Failevic (1933-2016), French film director
• Maurice Elwood Frump (1901–1979), American football player
• Maurice Gambier d'Hurigny (1912–2000), French sculptor
• Maurice Gamelin (1872–1958), French general remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France
• Maurice Garin (1871–1957), French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 for cheating
• Maurice Gibb (1949–2003), British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
• Maurice Greene (athlete), American sprinter
• Maurice Grevisse (1895–1980), Belgian grammarian
• Maurice Healy (campaigner) (1933–2020), British consumer campaigner
• Maurice Howard, British art historian
• Maurice Hurst Jr. (born 1995), American football player
• Maurice LaMarche, Canadian actor
• Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), French novelist and writer
• Maurice Leyland (1900–1967), English cricketer
• Maurice Meisner (1931–2012), historian of 20th century China
• Maurice de Mel, Sri Lankan Sinhala army colonel
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), French phenomenological philosopher
• Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, birth name of Michael Caine, English actor
• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), French Impressionist music composer and pianist
• Maurice Rioli (1957–2010), Australian football player
• Maurice Roëves (1937–2020), English actor
• Maurice Rozenthal (born 1975), French ice hockey player
• Maurice Ruah (born 1971), Venezuelan tennis player
• Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), known for Where the Wild Things Are
• Maurice K. Smith (1926–2020), New Zealand-born American architect
• Maurice Salvador Sreshta (1872-1952), Postmaster General of Sri Lanka from 1923-1928
• Maurice Stuckey (born 1990), German basketball player
• Maurice Schwartz (1889–1960), Russian-born actor
• Maurice Tulloch (born 1969), British/Canadian businessman
• Maurice Vinot (1888–1916), French film actor
• Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), French painter, one of the principals in the Fauve movement
• Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), New Zealand-born English physicist and molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate

Fictional characters[]

• Maurice, a monster character in the 1989 film Little Monsters
• Maurice Lalonde (Highlander character), character in the television program Highlander: The Series
• Maurice Levy (The Wire), character in the television program The Wire
• Maurice Moss, character from the British sitcom The IT Crowd
• Rap Master Maurice, a character portrayed by artist Derek Erdman
• Maurice Olgilvie Hedgehog, real name of Sonic the Hedgehog
• Maurice Hall, protagonist in the book Maurice by E.M. Forster

Surname[]

• Ann Maurice (born 1951), American interior designer and house stager, called "The House Doctor"
• Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1873–1946), American editor of the Woodbridge (NJ) Register
• Benoît Maurice (born 1971), French football central defender
• Charles G. Maurice (1911–1997), American teacher of dentistry and pioneer of endodontics
• Clément Maurice (1853–1933), French photographer
• David Maurice (1626–1702), Welsh priest and translator
• David M. Maurice (1922–2002), British ophthalmologist
• Emil Maurice (1897–1972), German watchmaker and senior Nazi Party official
• Florian Maurice (born 1974), French footballer
• Frederick Barton Maurice (1871–1951), British general, military correspondent, writer and academic
• Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872), British author, theologian, and socialist
• Henry Maurice (minister) (1634–1682), Welsh priest who became an Independent minister
• Henry Maurice (theologian) (c. 1647 – 1691), Welsh clergyman and professor
• Henry Gascoyne Maurice (1847–1950), English zoologist
• Hugh Maurice (1775-1825), transcriber of Welsh manuscripts
• James Maurice (1814–1884), American politician from New York
• James Wilkes Maurice (1775–1857), United Kingdom Royal Navy officer
• Jean-Eudes Maurice (born 1986), French-born Haitian footballer
• John D. Maurice, American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner
• John Frederick Maurice (1841–1912), English soldier and military writer
• María Belén Pérez Maurice (born 1985), Argentinian fencer
• Mary Maurice (1844–1918), American actress
• Mathias Maurice (1684-1738), Welsh minister and writer
• Paul Maurice (born 1967), Canadian hockey player and coach
• Paule Maurice (1910–1967), French composer
• Peter Maurice (priest) (1803–1878), Welsh priest and writer
• Peter Maurice (bishop) (born 1951), English cleric - bishop of Taunton
• Richard Maurice (1893– fl. 1951), Cuban-American filmmaker and labor organizer
• Thomas Maurice (fl. 1755–1824), English poet oriental scholar, historian, chaplain and vicar
• William Maurice (1552–1622), Welsh politician (an anglicization of his patronymic, ap Morys)
• William Maurice (antiquary) (1620-1680), Welsh antiquary and collector of manuscripts

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