Murdock

For other uses, see Murdock (disambiguation).

Murdock is a surname. A relatively modern iteration of the Irish/Scottish Murdoch. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andrew Murdock, American record producer
• Andrew G. Murdock, botanist whose official abbreviation is "Murdock", who described the fern genus Ptisana
• Bennet Murdock (born 1925), American psychologist
• Colin Murdock (born 1975), Northern Irish former footballer
• Dorothy M. Murdock, better known by pen name Acharya S, author and proponent of the Christ myth theory
• David H. Murdock, American businessman
• Deroy Murdock, American syndicated columnist
• Eric Murdock, retired American professional basketball player
• George Peter Murdock, American anthropologist known for his empirical approach to ethnological studies
• George Murdock, American actor
• Ian Murdock, founder and former leader of the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution
• Joseph Murdock (disambiguation), various people
• Kirk Radomski (known to players as Murdock), former New York Mets employee
• Mike Murdock, American televangelist and pastor
• Orrice Abram Murdock, Jr., United States Representative and Senator from Utah
• Roger E. Murdock, LAPD Chief
• Sharon Murdock, Canadian politician
• Shirley Murdock, American R&B singer
• William Murdock, eighteenth century US politician
• William Murdoch, also spelled Murdock, early-nineteenth century Scottish engineer

Fictional characters

• Murdock, the fictional main antagonist in Carland Cross
• Buz Murdock, fictional character
• Howling Mad Murdock, character played by the actor Dwight Schultz in the 1980s television series The A-Team
• Roger Murdock, character from Airplane!, played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Buck Murdock, character from Airplane II: The Sequel, played by William Shatner
• Matthew Murdock, the given name of the Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil and namesake of the Netflix series Daredevil

See also

• Maddock (surname)
• Murdoc
• Murdoch