Moritz (name)

Moritz is both a given name and a surname. It is the German equivalent of the name Maurice. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Saint Maurice, also called Saint Moritz, Roman Theban Legion leader
• Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau (1712–1760), German prince
• Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (1926–2013), German nobleman
• Moritz, Prince of Dietrichstein (1775–1864), German prince
• Moritz Becker (1827–1906), American politician
• Moritz Benedikt (1849–1920), Jewish-Austrian newspaper editor
• Moritz Borman (born 1955), German-born American 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
• Moritz Schlick (1882–1936), German philosopher and physicist
• Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871), Austrian painter
• Moritz Seider (born 2001), German ice hockey player
• Moritz Steinla (1791–1858), German engraver
• Moritz Wagner (basketball) (born 1997), German basketball player
• Moritz Wagner (naturalist) (1813–1887), German explorer, collector, geographer and natural historian

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 (1906–1993), Swedish cross-country skier
• Helmut Moritz (1933–2022), Austrian geodeticist
• Jacob Moritz (1849–1910), German-born American brewer
• Julius L. and Morris Moritz (1830–1909 and (c. 1836–1903), German-born American retail merchants
• 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), American judge
• 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), American politician
• Wilhelm Moritz (1913–2010), German fighter pilot

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

See also

• Moritz (disambiguation)
• Yunna Morits (born 1937), Soviet and Russian poet