Murray is a masculine given name, primarily derived from the Scottish and Irish surname Murray. It also become a popular name and garnered associations with diaspora Jewish and Italian communities. It may refer to:

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• Arts and entertainment
• Acting
• Music
• Other arts and entertainment
• Business
• Education
• Politics
• Science and medicine
• Sports
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• Writing
• Other

Arts and entertainment

Business

• Murray M. Baker (1872–1964), American businessman
• Murray Lender (1930–2012), American businessman

Education

• J. Murray Beck (1914–2011), Canadian historian and professor
• Murray Bowen (1913–1990), American psychiatrist and professor
• Murray Brown (born 1936), Economics professor
• Murray Barnson Emeneau (1904–2005), American linguistics professor
• Murray Greene (1920–1995), American philosophy professor
• Murray S Smith, British professor of film studies and philosopher at the University of Kent
• Murray A. Straus (1926–2016), American professor of sociology
• Murray C. Wells (born 1936), New Zealand economist and professor
• Murray Clarke, Canadian Philosophy professor

Politics

• Murray Biggar, Canadian politician in office 1895
• Murray Bourchier (1881–1937), Australian soldier and politician
• Murray Bourchier (diplomat) (1925–1981), Australian public servant and diplomat
• Murray Byrne (1928–2012), Australian politician
• Murray Calder (born 1951), Canadian politician
• Murray Gaunt (1935–2009), Canadian politician, 1962–1981
• Murray McBride (born 1935), Canadian politician and author
• Murray McCully (born 1953), New Zealand politician
• Murray Schwartz (Queens politician) (1919–2001), American politician
• Murray Smith (Alberta politician), Canadian lawyer and politician, 1993–2004
• Murray Smith (Canadian politician) (1930–2010), MP for Winnipeg North, 1958–1962
• Murray Smith (New Zealand politician), in office 2002–2005
• Murray Robert Smith (1941–2009), New Zealand Labour Party politician & MP
• Robert Murray Smith (1831–1921), known as Murray Smith, politician in colonial Victoria, Australia
• Murray Cardiff (1934–2013), Canadian MP in office 1980–1993
• Murray Chotiner (1909–1974), American political strategist, attorney, and government official
• Murray Clark (1899–1973), Canadian parliament member in office 1935–1957
• Murray Coell (born 1955 or 1954), Canadian politician in office 1996–2013
• Murray Cowper (born 1960), Australian politician in office 2005–2017
• Murray Criddle (born 1943), Australian politician in office 1993–2008
• Murray Van Wagoner (1898–1986), American politician from Michigan

Science and medicine

• Murray Banks (1917–2008), American psychologist
• Murray Barr (1908–1995), Canadian physician and medical researcher
• Murray Batchelor (born 1961), Australian mathematical physicist
• Murray Bornstein (1917–1995), American neuroscientist
• Murray Bowen (1913–1990), American psychiatrist and professor
• Murray Brennan (born 1940), New Zealand surgeon, oncologist, cancer researcher, and academic
• Ian Brooker (1934–2016), Australian botanist
• Murray Campbell, Canadian computer scientist involved with IBM Deep Blue
• Murray Feingold (1930-2015), American pediatrician and geneticist, founder of the National Birth Defects Center (now Feingold Center for Children)
• Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019), Nobel prize–winning theoretical physicist
• Murray Goldberg (born 1962), Canadian eLearning pioneer
• Murray Heimberg American medical scientist

Sports

Writing

• Murray Bail (born 1941), Australian author
• Murray Bishoff, American writer active in the late 20th century
• Murray Boltinoff (1911–1994), American writer and editor of comic books
• Murray Cammick, New Zealand journalist, photographer and record label founder active since the 1970s
• Murray Campbell (columnist) (born 1950), Canadian columnist
• Murray Chass (born 1938), American sports writer
• Murray Kempton (1917–1997), American journalist
• Murray Leinster (1896–1975), American author
• Murray McBride (born 1935), Canadian politician and author
• Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), American economist, individualist anarchist, and author
• Murray Sayle (1926–2010), Australian journalist

Other

• Murray Adams-Acton (1886–1971), English historian and interior designer
• Murray Angus, Canadian First Nations activist
• Murray Arbeid (1935–2011), British fashion designer
• Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans (born 1939)
• Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), American political theorist, creator of the theory of social ecology
• Murray Chandler (born 1960), New Zealand chess grandmaster
• Murray Chatlain (born 1963), Canadian clergyman
• Murray Cotterill (1913–1995), Canadian trade union activist
• Murray Coutts-Trotter (1874–1929), British barrister and Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
• Murray Gerstenhaber (1927–2024), American mathematician and lawyer
• Murray A. Hansen, American military officer
• Murray Beresford Roberts (1919–1974), Australian–New Zealand confidence trickster and thief
• Murray Merle Schwartz (1931–2013), American federal judge from Delaware
• Murray J. Shubin (1917–1956), American World War II flying ace
• Murray A. Wiener (1909–????), American explorer and photographer
• Murray W. Miller, American Teamsters official

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