Merritt (given name)
Merritt is a masculine and feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Merritt Brunies, American jazz trombonist and cornetist
- Merritt Bucholz, American architect
- Merritt Butrick, American actor
- Merritt L. Campbell, American politician
- Merritt Clark, businessman and politician
- Merritt E. Cornell, Seventh-day Adventist minister
- Merritt Cooke Jr., American football player
- Merritt B. Curtis, United States Marine Corps officer
- Merritt A. Edson, United States Marine Corps general
- Merritt Lyndon Fernald, American botanist
- Merritt Gant, guitarist
- Merritt B. Gerstad, American cinematographer
- Merritt Giffin, American athlete
- Merritt Green, American football player
- Merritt Eldred Hoag, lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army
- Merritt Hotchkiss, Canadian politician
- Merritt Yerkes Hughes, academic
- Merritt David Janes, American stage actor and singer
- merritt k, Canadian video game designer
- Merritt Kellogg, missionary
- Merritt Lamb, scout
- Merritt Mathias, American soccer forward
- Merritt Mauzey, American lithographer, author and illustrator
- Merritt C. Mechem, jurist and politician
- Merritt Patterson, Canadian actress
- Merritt Paulson, American businessman
- Merritt Putman, Canadian cross-country skier
- Merritt Ranew, American baseballer
- Merritt J. Reid, American architect
- Merritt Clarke Ring, American lawyer
- Merritt Ruhlen, American linguist
- Merritt Roe Smith, American historian
- Merritt Starkweather, architect
- Merritt Wever, American actress
- Merritt F. White, American politician
