title: Merton (surname)
text: # 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
  