Shorter

Shorter may refer to:

• Shorter, Alabama, a town located in Macon County, Alabama, United States

• Alan Shorter (1932–1988), American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
• Brian Shorter (born 1968), American former basketball player
• Clement Shorter (1857–1926), English journalist
• Clinton Shorter (born 1971), Canadian film and television composer
• Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), Irish poet and sculptor
• Edward Shorter (1767–1836), British inventor
• Eli Sims Shorter (1823–1879), American politician
• Frank Shorter (born 1947), American athlete
• Jim Shorter (1938–2000), American football player
• John Gill Shorter (1818–1872), American politician
• Justin Shorter (born 2000), American football player
• Ken Shorter (1945/46–2024), Australian actor
• Laurence Shorter (born 1970), American author and comedian
• Richard Shorter (1906–1984), English cricketer
• Rick Shorter (1934–2017), American musician and record producer
• Shannon Shorter (born 1989), American basketball player
• Stuart Shorter, disabled homeless man from Cambridge, England, about whom the biography "Stuart: A Life Backwards" was written
• Susie Lankford Shorter (1859–1912), American educator
• Wayne Shorter (1933–2023), American jazz saxophonist and composer

• 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