Merton is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alice Merton (born 1993), Canadian-British-German-Irish singer-songwriter
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Don Merton
Donald Vincent Merton (22 February 193910 April 2011) was a New Zealand conservationist best known for saving the black robin from extinction. He also discovered the lek breeding system of the kākāpō.
When Merton began his work as a conser ...
(1939–2011), New Zealand conservationist
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Ernst Merton (1848–1920), American politician and lawyer
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Hugo Merton
Hugo Merton (18 November 1879 in Frankfurt am Main – 23 March 1940 in Edinburgh) was a German zoologist.
He studied sciences at the University of Heidelberg. From October 1907 to August 1908, with herpetologist Jean Roux, he conducted scien ...
(1879–1940), German zoologist
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Paul Merton
Paul James Martin (born 9 July 1957), known under the stage name Paul Merton, is an English writer, actor, comedian and radio and television presenter.
Known for his improvisation skill, Merton's humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and someti ...
(born 1957), British actor and comedian
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Robert C. Merton
Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especia ...
(born 1944), American Nobel Prize–winning economist
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Robert K. Merton
Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. He served as th ...
(1910–2003), American sociologist, father of Robert C. Merton
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Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood and giv ...
(1915–1968), American Cistercian monk, social activist and author
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Thomas Ralph Merton
Sir Thomas Ralph Merton KBE, DSc, FRS (12 January 1888 – 10 October 1969) was an English physicist, inventor and art collector. He is particularly noted for his work on spectroscopy and diffraction gratings.
Early life and education
Born in ...
KBE FRS (1888–1969), British physicist and art collector
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Walter de Merton
Walter de Merton ( – 27 October 1277) was Lord Chancellor of England, Archdeacon of Bath, founder of Merton College, Oxford, and Bishop of Rochester. For the first two years of the reign of Edward I he was - in all but name - Regent of England d ...
(c. 1205 – 1277), Bishop of Rochester, England and founder of Merton College
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William Merton (1917–2014), British scientist and banker
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William "Bill" Ralph Merton (1917–2004), British military scientist and merchant banker
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William Ralph Merton (1848–1916), German entrepreneur, founder of the University of Frankfurt and Metallgesellschaft AG
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Zachary Merton
Zachary Merton, born Zachary Moses (1843–1915), was an Anglo-German industrialist and philanthropist.
Biography
Merton's family had founded Metallgesellschaft in Germany and Henry R. Merton and Co. in Britain, which were among the leading meta ...
(1843–1915), Anglo-German industrialist and philanthropist
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English toponymic surnames