Shorter may refer to:
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Shorter, Alabama
Shorter is a town in Macon County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 385, down from 474 at the 2010 census. According to the 1990 U.S. Census records, it was incorporated in 1984.
Geography
Shorter is located in west ...
, a town located in Macon County, Alabama, United States
As a surname
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Alan Shorter (1932–1988), American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
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Brian Shorter (born 1968), American former basketball player
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Clement Shorter
Clement King Shorter (19 July 1857 – 19 November 1926) was a British journalist and literary critic.
After editing the '' Illustrated London News'', Shorter founded and edited ''Sketch'', '' The Sphere'', and '' Tatler''.
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(1857–1926), English journalist
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Clinton Shorter (born 1971), Canadian film and television composer
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Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), Irish poet and sculptor
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Edward Shorter (1767–1836), British inventor
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Eli Sims Shorter (1823–1879), American politician
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Frank Shorter (born 1947), American athlete
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Jim Shorter (1938–2000), American football player
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John Gill Shorter (1818–1872), American politician
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Justin Shorter (born 2000), American football player
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Ken Shorter (1945/46–2024), Australian actor
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Laurence Shorter (born 1970), American author and comedian
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Richard Shorter (1906–1984), English cricketer
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Rick Shorter (1934–2017), American musician and record producer
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Shannon Shorter (born 1989), American basketball player
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Stuart Shorter, disabled homeless man from Cambridge, England, about whom the biography "Stuart: A Life Backwards" was written
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Susie Lankford Shorter (1859–1912), American educator
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for whom he eventually became the primary comp ...
(1933–2023), American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Shorter University, an American four year, co-educational college located in Rome, Georgia, United States
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Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
The ''Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'' (''SOED'') is an English language dictionary published by the Oxford University Press. The SOED is a two-volume abridgement of the twenty-volume ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'').
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, a two-volume, scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Westminster Shorter Catechism
The Westminster Shorter Catechism is a catechism written in 1646 and 1647 by the Westminster Assembly, a synod of English and Scottish theologians and laymen intended to bring the Church of England into greater conformity with the Church of Scot ...
or "Shorter Catechism", a set of three Christian religious texts dating from the 1640s
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