Shorter may refer to:

As a place name

* Shorter, Alabama, a town located in Macon County, Alabama, United States

As a surname

* Alan Shorter, jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player *

Dora Sigerson Shorter Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter (16 August 1866 – 6 January 1918) was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. Life She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a ...

(1866–1918), Irish poet * Edward Shorter (1767–1836), British Inventor *

Eli Sims Shorter Eli Sims Shorter (March 15, 1823 – April 29, 1879) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama. Born in Monticello, Georgia, Shorter attended the common schools and was graduated in law from Yale College in 1844. He was admitted to the bar and ...

(1823–1879), US Democrat * Frank Shorter (born 1947), American athlete *

Jim Shorter James Shorter (June 8, 1938 – June 1, 2000) was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football at the University of De ...

, American football player * John Gill Shorter (1818–1872), American politician *

Stuart Shorter ''Stuart: A Life Backwards'' is a biography by Alexander Masters of his friend Stuart Clive Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal. It explores how a young boy, somewhat disabled from birth, became mentally unstabl ...

, disabled homeless man from Cambridge, England, about whom the biography "Stuart: A Life Backwards" was written * Wayne Shorter (born 1933), American jazz musician

Other uses

* The comparative form of

short Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as ...

* Shorter University, an American four year, co-educational college located in Rome, Georgia, United States * Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a two-volume, scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary * Westminster Shorter Catechism or "Shorter Catechism", a set of three Christian religious texts dating from the 1640s {{disambig, geo, surname