Mordaunt is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname Charles Mordaunt (disambiguation), several earls and baronets Harry Mordaunt (1663–1720), English lieutenant-general Henry Mordaunt (Royal Navy officer) (died 1710), English politician and Royal Navy captain David Mordaunt (born 1937), English former cricketer Elinor Mordaunt (1872–1942), English author and traveler Gerald Mordaunt (1873–1959), English cricketer Harriet Mordaunt (1848–1906), wife of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, and alleged mistress of Edward VII Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (1621–1697), English soldier, peer, and courtier Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th Baronet (1867–1939), English cricketer John Mordaunt (disambiguation), numerous persons Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (1538-1601), English peer and politician Norman Mordaunt, co-founder in 1967 of British loudspeaker company Mordaunt-Short Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1842) (1842–1923), English cricketer and clergyman Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1876) (1876–1949), English cricketer Penny Mordaunt (born 1973), British politician Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), British officer and poet Given name Mordaunt Bisset (1825–c. 1884), British politician and Member of Parliament Mordaunt Cracherode (died 1773 or possibly 1768), British Army officer J. Mordaunt Crook (born 1937), English architectural historian Mordaunt Doll (1888–1966), English cricketer Mordaunt Hall (1878–1973), American film critic Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet (c. 1740–1815), English country gentleman Mordaunt Shairp (1887–1939), English dramatist and screenwriter Fictional characters Mordaunt, a main villain of the 1845 novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas Mordaunt, the central male character in the 1800 novel Mordaunt, Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners in Various Countries; including the memoirs of a French Lady of Quality by John Moore (Scottish physician) Mordaunt Heatherstone, son of General John Berthier Heatherstone in the 1888 novel The Mystery of Cloomber by Arthur Conan Doyle See also DeMordaunt English-language masculine given names