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 (1866–1918), Irish poet Edward Shorter (1767–1836), British Inventor Eli Sims Shorter (1823–1879), US Democrat Frank Shorter (born 1947), American athlete Jim Shorter, American football player John Gill Shorter (1818–1872), American politician Stuart Shorter, 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 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