Merton (surname)

Merton is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alice Merton (born 1993), German singer-songwriter
• Don Merton (1939–2011), New Zealand conservationist
• Ernst Merton (1848–1920), American politician and lawyer
• Hugo Merton (1879–1940), German zoologist
• Paul Merton (born 1957), British actor and comedian
• Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American Nobel Prize–winning economist
• Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist, father of Robert C. Merton
• Thomas Merton (1915–1968), American Cistercian monk, social activist and author
• Sir Thomas Ralph Merton KBE FRS (1888–1969), British physicist and art collector
• Walter de Merton (c. 1205 – 1277), Bishop of Rochester, England and founder of Merton College
• William Merton (1917–2014), British scientist and banker
• William "Bill" Ralph Merton (1917–2004), British military scientist and merchant banker
• William Ralph Merton (1848–1916), German entrepreneur, founder of the University of Frankfurt and Metallgesellschaft AG
• Zachary Merton (1843–1915), Anglo-German industrialist and philanthropist