Maurice (given name)

Maurice is a traditionally masculine given name. 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: Spanish Mauricio, Italian Maurizio, Dutch Maurits, Greek Μαυρίκιος (Mavrikios), Russian Маврикий (Mavrikiy), German Moritz, English Morris.

List of people with the given name Maurice

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
• Maurice of Inchaffray (14th century), Scottish cleric who became a bishop

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 the Netherlands (1843–1850), prince of Orange-Nassau
• Maurice Crum (disambiguation), multiple people
• Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), French novelist and writer
• 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 Gamelin (1872–1958), French general remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France
• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), French Impressionist music composer and pianist
• Maurice Chevalier, (1888–1972), French actor, singer and entertainer
• Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), French painter, considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement
• Maurice Schwartz (1889–1960), a Russian-born theater and film actor
• Maurice Duplessis (1890–1959), 16th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec
• Maurice of Battenberg (1891–1914), prince of the Battenberg family and member of the British Royal Family
• Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), English classical scholar and academic
• Maurice Leyland (1900–1967), English cricketer
• Maurice Elwood Frump (1901–1979), American offensive guard for the Chicago Bears
• Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), French phenomenological philosopher
• Maurice Riemer Calhoun, Sr. (1909–1994), American politician
• Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), a New Zealand-born English physicist and molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate
• Maurice Cowling (1926–2005), British historian
• Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) known for Where the Wild Things Are
• Maurice Meisner (1931–2012), an historian of 20th century China
• Maurice Rioli (1957–2010), Australian rules football player
• Maurice Ruah (born 1971), Venezuelan tennis player
• Maurice Anderson (born 1975), American football player
• Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, birth name of Michael Caine, English actor

Fictional characters

• The Amazing Maurice, character in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
• 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, a character in the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast
• Maurice, a character in the 2005 film Madagascar, its sequels, and All Hail King Julien
• Maurice, a character of Samantha Stevens' father in the sitcom, Bewitched
• Maurice Hall, the eponymous protagonist of the E. M. Forster novel, Maurice (novel)
• Maurice, a character in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

As a surname

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

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