People
- As a stage name
- Merton (YouTube), American YouTube personality
- With the surname
- Paul Merton (1957–), British actor and comedian
- Robert C. Merton (1944–), American nobel-prize winning economist, or to his Merton Model
- 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), physicist and art collector
- Walter de Merton (ca. 1205–1277), Bishop of Rochester, England and founder of Merton College
- William Ralph Merton (1848–1916), founder of the University of Frankfurt and Metallgesellschaft AG
- Fictional characters
- Mrs Merton, a character of comedienne Caroline Aherne for The Mrs Merton Show
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