Morris is a surname of various origins though mostly of English , Irish , Scottish and Welsh origin. In 2014, the surname ranked 39 out of 104,537 in England, and 55 out of 400,980 in the USA.[ 1]
Origins
Britain
Morris is of Anglo-Norman origin and is a relationship name derived from the Middle English and Old French personal name Moreis , or Maurice (from the Latin Mauritius 'Moorish, dark, swarthy'; from Maurus 'a Moor').[ 2] [ 3] Saint Maurice .[ 4] [user-generated source According to the 1881 Census, the vast majority of people with the surname Morris were located in Lancashire, England (8723; 2516 per million); with significant concentrations in London, Glamorgan, and the West Midlands. Now more widespread across the UK, the majority can be found in London, the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and Wales, with a total of 95,101 recorded across the country in 2016.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] Meurig , itself a Welsh variant of the Latin Mauritius (see also Morus and Morys), derived from the Anglo-Norman French form of the name.[ 8]
Ireland
Ó Muiris and, less commonly, de Moiréis in Irish ; the Morris surname in Ireland is predominantly of Norman origin. It comes from the Norman "de Mareys", "de Marreis" and Latin "de Marisco", i.e., "of the marsh". It is a common surname in many parts of the south of Ireland, especially in Kilkenny, Tipperary, Offaly, Laois, Cork and Limerick, where it is now anglicised as Morris. A family of the name settled, in 1485, at Galway and became one of the Tribes of Galway . It may also refer to "descendant of Muiris" (sea-choice), a variant of Ó Muireasa. This was the name of a branch of the Uí Fiachrach who were formerly chiefs of a district on the southern shore of Sligo Bay, in the barony of Tireragh.[citation needed
Germany
In some cases Morris is of German origin , as a variant of the German name Moritz
Disambiguation of common given names with this surname
Arts and letters
Abigail Morris (born 1964), British arts administratorAbigail Morris , (born 1999), British singer-songwriterAdrian Morris (actor) (1907–1941), American stage and film actorAdrian Morris (painter) (1929–2004), English painterAgnes Thomas Morris (1865–1949), American writer and clubwomanAmos Morris (born 1987/1988), Australian country music bush balladeerAndrea Morris (born 1983), Canadian actressAnita Morris (1943–1994), American actress, singer and dancerAubrey Morris (1926–2015), British actorAudrey Morris (1928–2018), American jazz singerBam Morris (Byron Morris ; born 1972), American football running backBarboura Morris (1932–1975), American actressBurton Morris (born 1964), American pop artistButch Morris (Lawrence D. Morris ; 1947–2013), American cornetist, composer and conductorCarey Morris (1882–1968), Welsh painter, illustrator, author and businessmanCarol Morris (born 1936), American actress, 5th Miss Universe (1956)Caroline Morris (born 1974), British voice actressCassandra Lee Morris (born 1982), American voice actressCedric Morris (1889–1982), British artist, art teacher and plantsmanMrs. Charles H. Morris, the married name of Lelia N. Morris (1862–1929), American hymnwriter
Chester Morris (1901–1970), American stage, film, television, and radio actorChristiana Morris (1804–1886), Mi'kmaq quillworkerClara Morris (1849–1925), American actressCraig Morris (born 1968), American orchestral trumpeterDanny Morris (music producer) , American songwriter and record producerDewi 'Pws' Morris (1948–2024), Welsh actor and musicianDorothy Morris (1922–2011), American film and television actressEdita Morris (1902–1988), Swedish-American writerEdith Emily Morris (1895–1965), New Zealand jewellery designer and silversmithElida Morris (later Elida Morris Cooper ; 1886–1977), American vaudeville singer, comedian and actressEliot Morris (born 1977), American singer, songwriter and musicianEliza F. Morris (1821–1874), English hymnwriterElliott Morris , British singer, songwriter and guitaristErnest Morris (1913–1987), British film directorErrol Morris (born 1948), American documentary film directorEvelyn Morris (also known as Pikelet ), Australian musicianFlora Morris (born c. 1890), British stage and film actressGareth Morris (1920–2007), British flautistGarrett Morris (born 1937), American actor and comedianGary Morris (born 1948), American singer and stage actorGenevieve Morris (born 1967), Australian actressGeraint Morris (1941–1997), Welsh film and television director and producerGerald Morris (born 1963), American writer of children's and young adult literatureGertrude Maesmore Morris (1872–1952), English-Australian actressGilbert Morris (1929–2016), American Christian authorGouverneur Morris (novelist) (1876–1953), American author of pulp novels and short storiesHaley Morris-Cafiero (born 1975/1976), American photographerHaviland Morris (born 1959), American film, television, and Broadway actressHeather Morris (born 1987), American actorHilda Grossman Morris (1911–1991), American sculptor of the Northwest SchoolHoward Morris (1919–2005), American actor, voice actor and directorIain Morris (born 1973), English screenwriter, creator of the British sitcom The Inbetweeners Ieuan Morris , British art photographerIona Morris (born 1957), American actressIrvin Morris (born 1958), Navajo Nation authorIshan Morris (also known as iSH ), Canadian actor and singerIslwyn Morris (1920–2011), Welsh-speaking actor and directorJ. Madison Wright Morris (also known as J. Madison Wright ; 1984–2006), American actressJackie Morris (born 1961), British writer and illustratorJan Morris (1926–2020), Welsh historian, author, travel writerJane Alice Morris (also known as Jenny Morris ; 1861–1935), British embroidererJanet Morris (born 1946), American authorJay Hunter Morris (born 1963), American operatic tenorJeremiah Morris (Jerome Maurice Gomberg ; 1929–2006), American actor, television and theater directorJessica Morris , American actressJoan Morris (born 1943), American mezzo-sopranoJoel Morris , British comedy writerJudy Morris (Judith Ann Morris ; born 1947), Australian actress, film director and screenwriterJulia Morris (born 1968), Australian comedian, actress, writer, television presenter and producerJulian Morris (born 1983), English-American actorJulianne Morris (born 1968), American actressKaren Joy Morris aka Karen Mok (born 1970), Hong Kong actor and singer-songwriter
Karen Morris-Gowdy (born 1956), American actressKatherine Faw Morris (also known as Katherine Faw ; born 1983), American writerKathleen Morris (1893–1986), Canadian painter, member of the Beaver Hall GroupKathryn Morris (born 1969), American actressKendra Morris (born 1981), American soul singer-songwriterLamar Morris , American country music singer and musicianLamorne Morris (born 1983), American actorLana Morris (born Averil Maureen Anita Morris; 1930–1998), British film, stage and television actressLelia N. Morris (Mrs. Charles H. Morris, 1862–1929), American hymn writerLily Morris (born Lilles Mary Crosby ; 1882–1952), English comedic music hall performerLinda Morris , American television producer and writerMali Morris (born 1945), British artistMarcus Morris (1915–1989), British priest and publisherMaren Morris (born 1990), American musicianMargie Morris (1892–1983), Anglo-Dutch actressMarianne Morris (born 1981), Canadian poet
Marlowe Morris (1915–1978), American jazz pianist and organistMaurice Morris (born 1979), American football running backMay Morris (Mary Morris ; 1862–1938), English craftswoman and designerMervyn Morris (born 1937), Jamaican poetMitch Morris (born 1979), American actorMontrose Morris (1861–1916), American architectMyra Morris (1893–1966), Australian poet and novelistNathan Morris (born 1971), American singer, founding member of the band Boyz II MenOlivia Morris (born 1997), English actressOswald Morris (1915–2014), British cinematographerOwen Morris (born 1968), British record producerPaula Morris (born 1965), New Zealand writerPhyllis Morris (furniture designer) (1925–1988), American furniture designerR. Winston Morris (born 1941), American tubistRae Morris (born 1992), British singer and songwriterRebecca Morris (born 1969), American abstract painterRebecca Morris (author) , American true-crime authorReggie Morris (James Reginald Morris ; 1886–1928), American actor, director, and screenwriterReginald Owen Morris (1886–1948, better known as R.O. Morris), British composer and teacherRooster Morris , American songwriter, musician and children's writerRuthie Morris (born 1964), musicianSeth Morris (born 1970), American actor, comedian and writerSharon Morris , Welsh poetShellie Morris , Indigenous Australian singer-songwriterSienna Morris (born 1983), American painterSiwan Morris (born 1976), Welsh actressStevland Hardaway Morris (born 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, American singer-songwriter and musicianTalwin Morris (1865–1911), British book designerTess Morris (Tessa Jo Morris ; born 1977), British screenwriterTracie Morris , American poetW. F. Morris (Walter Frederick Morris ; 1892–1975), English novelistWanya Morris (born 1973), American R&B singer and lead of group Boyz II MenWesley Morris (born 1975), American journalist, film critic and podcast hostWilber Morris (1937–2002), American jazz double bass playerWilliam Charles Morris (1874–1940), American political cartoonistWolfe Morris (born Woolf Steinberg ; 1925–1996), English actorWright Morris (1910–1998), American novelist, photographer, and essayistWyn Morris (1929–2010), Welsh conductorZack Morris (actor) (born 1998), English actor
Education
John Turner MacGregor-Morris (1872–1959), British engineer, professor of electrical engineering at Queen Mary University of LondonA. J. A. Morris (Andrew James Anthony Morris ), British historianBenny Morris (born 1948), Israeli historianBonnie J. Morris (born 1961), American women's studies professorCharlotte P. Morris , American academic administratorEffie Morris (1921–2009), American librarian and educatorIvan Morris (1925–1976), British author and teacher in the field of Japanese studiesJeremy Morris (born 1960), British historian, Church of England priestJoe Hall Morris , American oral surgeon, chairman of the Oral Surgery Department at the University of Tennessee (1966–1988)Lawrence Morris , chief of staff and counselor to the president at The Catholic University of AmericaLeon Morris (1914–2006), Australian New Testament scholarMyron Newton Morris (1810–1885), American educator, politician and Congregationalist minister, principal of Bacon Academy (1837–1838, 1840–1843), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1872, 1875)Norman Morris (1920–2008), British obstetricianNorval Morris (1923–2004), Australian and American law professor, criminologistPamela Morris (1906–2002), English teacher and publisherR. O. Morris (Reginald Owen Morris ; 1886–1948), British composer and teacherVictor Pierpont Morris (1891–1974), professor (1926–1959), dean (1936–1957) and interim president (1953–1954) of the University of Oregon
Anne Marie Morris (born 1957), British politician, member of the House of Commons (from 2010)Augustus Morris (1820–1895), Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative AssemblyBarry Morris (1935–2001), Australian politicianBrewster Morris (1909–1990), United States Ambassador to Chad (1963–1967)Bruce Morris , American politician, Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (from 2007)Buckner Stith Morris (1800–1879), Mayor of Chicago (1838–1839)Basil Morris (1888–1975), Australian general, military administrator of Papua (1942–1946)Cadwalader Morris (1741–1795), American merchant and politician, delegate for Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress (1783, 1784)Calvary Morris (1798–1871), U.S. Representative from Ohio (1837–1843)Claude F. Morris (1869–1957), Justice of the Montana Supreme CourtClifford Morris (born 1942), British Labour politician, leader of Bolton Council (2006–2018)Corbyn Morris (1710–1779), English commissioner of the customs and economic writerDaniel Morris (1812–1889), U.S. RepresentativeDeborah Morris (born 1970), member of the New Zealand House of Representatives (1996–1999)Dick Morris (born 1948), American political author, newspaper columnist, and commentatorEarle Morris Jr. (1928–2011), American Democratic politician, Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina (1971–1975)Edward Joy Morris (1815-1881), United States Representative from PennsylvaniaEstelle Morris (born 1952), British politician and member of the House of LordsFloyd Morris (born 1969), President of the Senate of Jamaica (2013–2016)G. Delbert Morris (1909–1987), American Republican politician, member of the California State Assembly (1948–1956)Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), American statesman, and diplomatGrahame Morris (born 1961), British politician, member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (from 2010)Greta N. Morris , United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (2003–2006)Gwladys Evan Morris (1879–1957), Welsh stage actress and writerHarvey R. Morris (1807–1886), New York politicianIra Nelson Morris (1883–1942), American diplomat, Minister to Sweden (1914–1923)Isaac N. Morris (1812–1879), United States Representative from Illinois (1857–1861)J. Clyde Morris (1909–1987), American civil servant, only city manager of City of Warwick, Virginia (1952–1958)James Morris (born 1967), British politician, member of the House of Commons (from 2010)Jay Morris (born 1958), American, businessman, attorney and politician, Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (from 2012)Jerry Morris (Jeremiah Noah Morris ; 1910–2009), British epidemiologist and cardiologistJill Morris , British Ambassador to Italy (from 2016)Kiah Morris (born 1976), Vermont politicianKindred Jenkins Morris (1819–1884), American Democratic politician, Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee (1869–1871)Kirk Morris (born 1942), Italian bodybuilder and actorKristi Morris , American politicianLeland B. Morris (1886–1950), American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Iceland (1942–1944) and to Iran (1944–1945)Leslie Morris (1904–1964), Welsh-Canadian politician, general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada (1962–1964)Lisa Morris-Julian (1975 or 1976–2024), Trinidadian politicianLogan Morris (1889–1977), judge of the United States Board of Tax AppealsLorenzo Morris (1817–1903), New York politicianLuzon B. Morris (1827–1895), American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of Connecticut (1893–1895)Lyndon Henry Morris (1889–1946), Devon chief constable (1931–1946)Malcolm Morris (1913–1972), English lawyerMathias Morris (1787–1839), Anti-Jacksonian and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from PennsylvaniaMilton Morris (1924–2019), Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Parliament (1956–1980), New South Wales Minister for Transport (1965–1975)Mount Etna Morris (1900–1988), American politician, State Treasurer of Missouri (1949–1953, 1957–1961, 1965–1969)Naomi E. Morris (1921–1986), American jurist, Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals (1978–1982)Newbold Morris (1902–1966), American politician, lawyer, president of the New York City Council (1938–1945)Olive Morris (1952–1979), British civil rights activistOscar Morris (1876–1939), American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1921–1938)Patricia Morris, Baroness Morris of Bolton (born 1953), British peer, Shadow Minister for Women, Opposition Whip for the Conservative PartyPercy Morris (1893–1967), British railway clerk, trade unionist and politician, member of Parliament (1945–1959)Rhys Hopkin Morris (1888–1956), Welsh Liberal politician, Member of Parliament (1923–1932, (1945–1956)Rien Morris , Marshallese politicianRoland S. Morris (1874–1945), U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1917–1920)Staats Long Morris (1728–1800), major-general in the British army during the American Revolution, Governor of Quebec (1797–1800)Stuart Morris , Australian lawyer, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2003–2007)Tim Morris (Timothy Bryce Morris ; born 1955), Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (2002–2014)Toby Morris (politician) (1899–1973), American politician, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma (1947–1953, 1957–1961)Timothy Morris (born 1958), British diplomat, ambassador to Morocco and Mauritania (2008–2012), the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo (temporary , 2014–2015), and South Sudan (2015–2017)Trefor Morris (born 1934), British law enforcer, Chief Inspector of Constabulary (1993–1996)Valentine Morris (1727–1789), British landowner and politician, Governor of St. Vincent (1772–1779)Owen Temple-Morris (1896–1985), British barrister and Conservative politician, member of Parliament (1931–1942)Yolonda Morris , American politician from Illinois
Sciences
Adele Morris (born 1963), policy director for Climate and Energy Economics at the Brookings InstitutionAldon Morris (born 1949), American sociologistBarbara Morris (1918–2009), English art scholar and artistBede Morris (1927–1988), Australian immunologistBevan Morris (born 1949), American psychologist and philosopher, president of Maharishi University of Management (1980–2016)Christine Ballengee-Morris , professor in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy Department for Ohio State UniversityCynthia Taft Morris (1928–2013), American economistSir Daniel Morris (1844–1933), British botanistDesmond Morris (born 1928), British ethnologist and zoologistGareth A. Morris (born 1954), British chemistHamilton Morris (born 1987), American writer, documentarian, and psychoactive drug researcherHannah Morris , American anthropologist, member of the Underground Astronauts groupHoward Morris (biochemist) , British biochemistJoy Morris (born 1970), Canadian mathematicianJulian Morris (economist) , British and American economist, Vice President of Research at Reason FoundationKirsten Morris (born 1960), Canadian applied mathematicianMalcolm Morris (dermatologist) (1849–1924), British surgeon and dermatologist, first president of the British Association of Dermatologists (1920–1921), chairman of the London Radium Institute (1923–1925)Margaretta Morris (1797–1867), American entomologistMeaghan Morris (born 1950), Australian scholar of cultural studiesMolly R. Morris , American behavioral ecologistNigel Goring-Morris , British and Israeli archaeologistRalph Camroux Morris (1895–1977), British Indian hunter-naturalist and politicianRosa M. Morris (1914-2011), British applied mathematicianRuth Morris (1933–2001), Canadian sociologist, penologist and prison abolitionistRona Moss-Morris , British psychologistS. Brent Morris , American mathematician, freemasonic historianTessa Morris-Suzuki (née Tessa Morris ; born 1951), British historian
Sports
A. J. Morris (born 1986), American baseball pitcherAggrey Morris (born 1984), Tanzanian footballerAkeel Morris (born 1992), American baseball pitcherAlec Morris , New Zealand rugby league footballerAlessandro Morris (born 1982), Caymanian cricketerAlwyn Morris (born 1957), Canadian Olympic sprint kayakerAric Morris (born 1977), American football safetyBarney Morris (1915–1962), baseball player in the Negro leaguesBernard Morris (born 1985), American football quarterbackBernie Morris (Bernard Patrick Morris ; 1890–1963), Canadian ice hockey playerBrennan Morris (born 1990), American swimmerBrett Morris (born 1986), Australian rugby league footballerBryn Morris (born 1996), English footballerBuckshot Morris , American car racer and race car ownerButler Morris , Papua New Guinean rugby league playerCale Morris , (born 1996), American ice hockey goaltenderCallum Morris (born 1990), English footballerCarolyn Morris (1925–1996), American baseball pitcherCarlton Morris (born 1995), English footballerCavour Morris (born 1932), Barbadian sports shooterCatherine Morris , British figure skaterCecil Morris (1933–2001), American football coach and playerChad Morris (born 1968), American football coachChristie Morris (Charles Christopher Morris ; 1882–1971), American cricketerCody Morris (born 1996), American baseball playerDai Morris (William David Morris ; born 1941), Welsh rugby union footballerDale Morris (born 1982), Australian rules footballerDanny Morris (born 1949), American baseball pitcher for the Minnesota TwinsDarren Morris (born 1974), Wales rugby union playerDarrin Morris (1966–2000), American super middleweight boxerDarick Kobie Morris (born 1995), Croatian footballerDarius Morris (born 1991), American basketball playerDennit Morris (1936–2014), American football linebackerDes Morris (born 1948), Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administratorDesmond Morris (athlete) (1961–1989), Jamaican Olympic high jumperDevon Morris (born 1961), Jamaican sprinterDewi Morris (born 1964), English rugby union footballerDov Grumet-Morris (born 1982), American ice hockey playerDoyt Morris (1916–1984), American baseball outfielderEarl H. Morris , American archeologistEarl Morris (basketball coach) (born 1933), American high school basketball coachEarle Morris (born 1945), Canadian curlerEdgar Morris (1914–2002), Rhodesian cricket playerElfed Morris (1942–2013), Welsh footballerElliot Morris (rugby league) (born 1996), English rugby league footballerElwyn Morris (also known as Moe Morris ; 1921–2000), Canadian ice hockey playerFinlay Morris (1945–1967), Scottish professional golferFrazer Morris (born 1997), British rugby league playerGavin Morris (born 1998), South African cricketerGeorge H. Morris (born 1938), American equestrianGlenn Morris (1912–1974), American Olympic track and field athleteGlenn Morris (footballer) (born 1983), English football goalkeeperGraeme Morris (cricketer) (born 1963), English cricketerGrenville Morris (1877–1959), Welsh footballerHampton Morris (born 2004), American weightlifterHaydn Morris (1928–2021), British rugby union wingIsaiah Morris (born 1969), American basketball playerJake Morris (soccer) (born 1999), American soccer playerJake Morris (hurler) , Irish hurlerJamel Morris (born 1992), American basketball playerJason Morris (born 1967), American Olympic judokaJaylen Morris (born 1995), American basketball player for the Milwaukee BucksJené Morris (born 1987), American basketball playerJody Morris , English football playerJontavius Morris (born 1993), American football defensive tackle and coachJordan Morris (born 1994), American international soccer playerJulius Morris (born 1994), Montserratian sprinterHal Morris (born 1965), baseball playerHunter Morris (born 1988), American baseball first basemanKelvin Morris (born 1982), American football linebackerKieran Morris (born 1990), Irish hurlerKieron Morris (born 1994), English footballer playing for WalsallL. N. Morris , American football coach, head coach at Lehigh UniversityLarry Morris (1933–2012), American football linebackerLarry Morris (running back) (born 1962), American football playerLeonard Morris (cricketer) (1898–1984), English cricketerLester Morris , Saint Kitts and Nevis football managerLisa Newman-Morris (born 1971), Australian trampoline gymnastLuismel Morris (Luismel Morris Calero ; born 1997), Cuban football playerLuke Morris (born 1988), English jockeyMaesmore Morris (1868–1917), Australian cricketerMarcus Morris (born 1989), American basketball playerMarkieff Morris (born 1989), American basketball playerMax Morris (1925–1998), American basketball and American football playerMeg Morris (born 1992), American soccer playerMercury Morris , American football playerMonté Morris (born 1995), American basketball player for the Denver NuggetsMorgan Morris (born 1998), Welsh rugby union player for OspreysMouse Morris (Michael Morris ; born 1951), Irish racehorse trainer and jockeyNasief Morris (born 1981), South African footballerNeil Morris (born 1970), English footballerNoel Morris (born 1975), Irish hurlerNorman Morris (English cricketer) (1849–1874)Norman Morris (Australian cricketer) (1907–1982)Oliver Morris (1916–1944), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballerP. Morris (Sussex cricketer) , 19th-century first-class cricketerP. J. Morris , 20th-century first-class cricketerPercy Morris (cricketer) (1881–1975), Welsh cricketerQuintin Morris (born 1999), American football playerR. Morris (footballer) (c. 1864 – ?), English footballer who played for EvertonRachel Morris (cyclist) (born 1979), British Paralympic cyclist and rowerRaheem Morris , American football coachRandall Morris (born 1961), American football running backRandolph Morris (born 1986), American basketball player for the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball AssociationRay Morris (1908–1933), Australian rugby league footballerRobin Morris (born 1976), Indian cricketerRod Morris (born 1950), Australian rugby league footballerRodney Morris (born 1970), American pool playerRosemary Morris (also known as Rosie Morris ; born 1986), British Olympic water polo playerRuth Morris (athlete) (born 1962), United States Virgin Islands Olympic sprinterSandi Morris (born 1992), American pole vaulterSean Morris (cricketer) (born 1968), English cricketer who played for the Hampshire County clubSean Morris (born 1982), American lacrosse playerSeb Morris (Sebastian Morris ; born 1995), British racing driverSeymour Morris (1913–1991), Welsh football outside leftSian Morris (born 1965), Welsh sprinterSion Morris (born 1977), Welsh cricketer who played for the Wales Minor Counties clubShane Morris (born 1994), American football quarterbackShaquille Morris (born 1994), American basketball player for the San-en NeoPhoenixSolomon Morris (born 1990), Sierra Leonean footballerStan Morris (1893–1948), Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond clubStephon Morris (born 1991), American football cornerbackStewart Morris (1909–1991), British Olympic sailorSue Morris (born 1958), New Zealand cricketerSylvester Morris (born 1977), American football wide receiverTashreeq Morris (born 1994), South African footballerTaylor Morris (luger) (born 1991), American Olympic lugerTeddy Morris (Allan Byron Morris ; 1910–1965), Canadian rules football playerTerence Morris (born 1979) American NBA and Israel Basketball Premier League basketball playerTracey Morris (born 1967), British long-distance runnerUna Morris (born 1947), Jamaican sprinterVernon Morris (1900–1973), Welsh cricketer who played for the Glamorgan County clubVictor Morris (born 1985), American basketball playerViolette Morris (1893–1944), French Olympic athleteWalter Morris (John Walter Morris ; 1880–1961), American baseball playerWanya Morris (American football) (born 2000), American football playerWarren Morris (born 1974), American Olympic baseball playerWhiz Morris (Harold Marsh Morris ; 1898–1984), English cricketerZac Morris (born 1978), English cricketer
Other
Leslie Dalton-Morris (1906–1976), senior Royal Air Force commanderAgnes Thomas Morris (1865–1949), American writer and clubwomanAlice Vanderbilt Morris (1874–1950), member of the Vanderbilt family, co-founder of the International Auxiliary Language AssociationAugustus Newbold Morris (1838–1906), American socialiteBarry S. Morris , CEO of NuoDBBen Morris (special effects artist) , Best Visual Effects Academy Award winner for The Golden Compass (2007)Christine Wigfall Morris (1922–2014), American librarianClaud Morris (1920–2000), British newspaper ownerClayton Morris (born 1976), American real estate investor and television hostCory Morris (born 1978), American serial killer and necrophileDontae Morris (born 1985), American convicted serial killer sentenced to the death penaltyDoug Morris (born 1938), chairman and CEO of the Universal Music Group (1995–2011) and Sony Music Entertainment (2011–2017)Douglas Morris (1908–1990), Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Royal Air Force Fighter Command (1962–1966)Ernest William Morris (died 1937), secretary and house governor of The London Hospital (1903–1930)Esther Morris Leidolf , medical sociologist, and intersex activistEva Morris (1885–2000), British supercentenarian, oldest recognised person in the world (1999–2000)Evan Morris (1977–2015), American lobbyist for Genentech and RocheG. Scott Morris (born 1954), American medical doctor and ordained minister in the United Methodist ChurchGideon Morris (1756–1798), trans-Appalachian pioneer and founder of Morristown, Tennessee Gouverneur Morris Jr. (1813–1888), American railroad executiveGraeme Morris (game designer) , British RPG designerH. G. Morris , acting Commander of the Ceylon Volunteers Force (1902)Jane Morris (née Jane Burden, 1839–1914), English artists' model, and embroidererJasper Morris , British wine expertJuliet Morris (born 1965), British television presenterKathleen Tacchi-Morris (1899–1993), British anti-war activist, founder of Women for World DisarmamentKylie Morris , Australian and British journalistLayne Morris (born 1962), American Special Forces soldierMaureen Morris , New Zealand nurseMelvin Morris (born 1942), American Special Forces Soldier, Vietnam War veteran, Medal of Honor recipientMittie Morris (1874–1953), American activistNancy Morris (born 1961), Reform rabbi of Glasgow Reform SynagogueNatali Morris (née Natali Del Conte ; born 1978), American technology news journalistNate Morris (born 1980), American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the recycling company Rubicon GlobalNathan Morris (evangelist) (born 1979), British and American evangelist, leader of the Bay RevivalNelson Morris (1838–1907), American meatpackerNeva Morris (1895–2010), American supercentenarianNigel Morris (born 1958), British businessman, co-founder of Capital One Financial ServicesNizah Morris (1955–2002), American transgender entertainerPatricia "Patsy" Morris (1966-1980), murdered British childR. Scott Morris , American financial engineerRachel Morris, English psychotherapist and counsellor
Roy Morris (c. 1930 – 2011), British Scout Leader, recipient of the Silver Wolf AwardRupert Morris (1843–1918), Welsh clergyman and antiquarianStuyvesant Fish Morris (1843–1928), American physicianTim Morris (priest) (Timothy David Morris ), Dean of Edinburgh (1992–2001)Victor Vaughen Morris (1873–1929), American and Peruvian businessman and bar owner, inventor of pisco sour cocktailWalter F. Morris Jr. , American cultural preservationist
Characters
Archie Morris , a character in the television series ER Christine Morris, a character in the television series Christine Morris series
Dinah Morris , a character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede (1859)Lou Anthony Morris, a character in the British television series Friday Night Dinner
Mr. Morris, a character in the television series Arthur
Rhydian Morris, a character in the British television series Wolfblood
Nikki Morris, a character in the 2004 video game Need for Speed: Underground 2 Kelly Brook
Quincey Morris , a character in Bram Stoker's horror novel Dracula (1897)Zack Morris , a character in the sitcoms Good Morning, Miss Bliss ; Saved by the Bell , and Saved by the Bell: The College Years
See also
Notes
^ "Morris Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History" . forebears.io . Retrieved 2024-04-04 .^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016-11-17), "Morris" , The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland , Oxford University Press, doi :10.1093/acref/9780199677764.001.0001/acref-9780199677764-e-29111?rskey=dmmtsa&result=1 , ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4 , retrieved 2024-04-04 ^ "moreis - Middle English Compendium" . quod.lib.umich.edu . Retrieved 2024-04-04 .^ "Saint Maurice" , Wikipedia , 2024-03-04, retrieved 2024-04-04 ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016-11-17), "Morris" , The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland , Oxford University Press, doi :10.1093/acref/9780199677764.001.0001/acref-9780199677764-e-29111?rskey=dmmtsa&result=1 , ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4 , retrieved 2024-04-04 ^ Services, Good Stuff IT. "Surname distribution maps for Morris surname meaning, origin, etymology and distribution in Great Britain" . britishsurnames.co.uk . Retrieved 2024-04-04 . ^ "Morris Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History" . forebears.io . Retrieved 2024-04-04 .^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016-11-17), "Morris" , The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland , Oxford University Press, doi :10.1093/acref/9780199677764.001.0001/acref-9780199677764-e-29111?rskey=iw3uuh&result=1 , ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4 , retrieved 2024-04-04
