Potter (name)
Potter is an English surname that originally referred to someone who made pottery. It is occasionally used as a given name. People with the name include:
Surname
- Albert Potter, English footballer
- Alexandra Potter, British author
- Alfie Potter, English football player
- Alfred Potter, English clergyman and cricketer
- Allen Potter, American politician
- Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania
- A. J. Potter "Archie", Irish composer
- Anice Potter Terhune, American author and composer
- Arnold Potter, American self-declared Messiah
- Art Potter, Canadian ice hockey administrator
- Barbara Potter, American tennis player
- Barnaby Potter, Bishop of Carlisle
- Beatrix Potter, British children's writer
- Bert Potter (disambiguation), several people including:
- *Bert Potter (composer), American composer
- Beryl H. Potter, American astronomer
- Beryl Potter, Canadian disability rights activist
- Bill Potter, Australian footballer for Fitzroy
- Bill Potter (musician), country singer and television personality
- Brandon Potter, American voice actor
- B. T. Potter, American football player
- Carol Potter (poet), American poet
- Carol Potter (actress), American actress
- Cassandra Potter, American curler
- Charles E. Potter, American politician
- Cherry Potter, British journalist
- Christopher Potter (disambiguation), several people, including:
- *Christopher Potter (provost), English academic and clergyman
- *Christopher Potter (died 1817), MP for Colchester 1781–2 and 1784
- *Chris Potter (priest), Dean and Archdeacon of St Asaph
- *Christopher Potter (author), English author and publisher
- *Chris Potter (actor), Canadian actor, musician and pitchman
- *Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist), American jazz saxophonist and composer
- *Chris Potter (record producer), British record producer and mixer
- Cipriani Potter British composer, pianist and educator
- Clare Potter, American fashion designer
- Clarkson Nott Potter, American civil engineer, lawyer and politician
- Clayton D. Potter, Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
- Craig Potter, Scottish football player
- Cullen Potter, American ice hockey player
- CharliePotter, Senior Mortgage Broker
- Cynthia Potter, American diver
- Dale Potter, Canadian football player
- Danny Potter, English football player
- Darren Potter, Irish football player
- David M. Potter, American historian
- Dennis Potter, British playwright
- Don Potter, British sculptor and potter
- Don Potter (musician), American musician
- Dora Joan Potter, Australian children's author
- Edmund Potter, British industrialist, MP for Carlisle, Beatrix Potter's grandfather
- Edward Clark Potter, American sculptor
- Edward Tuckerman Potter, American architect
- Elderkin Potter, American politician and lawyer from Ohio
- Elisha Reynolds Potter, American congressman from Rhode Island
- Elisha R. Potter, American congressman from Rhode Island, son of Elisha Reynolds Potter
- Emery D. Potter, American politician
- Frank Potter (aviator), British flying ace
- Frank Potter (politician), Australian politician
- Frank J. Potter, British architect
- Frederick Potter, New Zealand businessman
- Fuller Potter, American abstract expressionist artist
- George Potter (disambiguation), several people, including:
- *George Potter (politician), Australian politician
- *George Richard Potter, British historian
- Gilbert Potter, Irish police officer
- Glenn Potter, American basketball coach
- Graham Potter, English footballer and manager
- Greg Potter, American comic book writer
- Harrison Potter, American pianist
- Henry Codman Potter, American clergyman
- Horatio Potter, American bishop
- Ian Potter, British writer
- Jack Potter, Australian cricketer
- James Potter (disambiguation), several people
- Jeff Potter, Australian rules footballer
- Jennie O'Neill Potter, American actor and dramatic reader
- Jenny Potter, American ice hockey player
- John Potter (disambiguation), several people, including:
- *John Potter (bishop), Archbishop of Canterbury
- *John Potter (Liberal politician), British Liberal politician
- *John Potter (Conservative politician), British Conservative politician
- *John Potter (footballer), Scottish football player
- *John E. Potter, American Postmaster General
- *John F. Potter, American politician
- *Jon Potter, British field hockey player
- *Jonathan Potter, British professor and originator of discursive psychology
- *Jonathan Potter (cricketer), English cricketer
- *Jonathan Potter (computer programmer), Australian programmer
- Judith Potter, New Zealand judge
- K.C. Potter, American academic administrator and LGBT rights activist
- Kimberly Potter, American police officer convicted of killing Daunte Wright
- Lauren Potter, American actress
- Lela Brooks Potter, Canadian speed skater
- Luke Potter, English football player
- Madeleine Potter, American actress
- Maisie Potter, Welsh snowboarder
- Mark Potter (sportscaster), Canadian sports broadcaster
- Mark Potter (judge), British judge
- Mark Potter (musician), British musician from the band Elbow
- Martin Potter (actor), British actor
- Martin Potter (surfer), British surfer
- Matthew Potter, Irish academic
- Maureen Potter, Irish actress
- Micah Potter, American professional basketball player
- Michael Potter (disambiguation), several people, including:
- *Michael Potter (immunologist), American physician and immunologist
- *Michael Potter, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
- *Mike Potter (racing driver), American racecar driver
- *Mike Potter (baseball), American baseball outfielder
- *Michael Cressé Potter, English botanist, herbarium curator, and Anglican priest
- Mitch Potter, American track and field athlete
- Monica Potter, American actress
- Mary Potter (disambiguation), several people
- Nels Potter, American baseball player
- Nelson Thomas Potter Jr., American philosopher
- Norm Potter, Australian rugby league footballer
- Orlando B. Potter, American politician
- Patricia Potter, British actress
- Paulus Potter, Dutch painter
- Philip Potter (church leader), Methodist minister
- Philip Potter, British opera singer
- Robert Brown Potter, American Civil War General
- Robert Potter, British architect
- Roger Potter, American basketball coach
- Ron Potter, Australian rugby league footballer
- Russell Potter, American writer
- Ryan Potter, American actor
- Sally Potter, British film director and screenwriter
- Samuel J. Potter, American Senator
- Sarah Potter, English cricketer
- Stephen Potter (disambiguation), several people, including:
- *Stephen Potter, British author of self-help books
- Ted Potter, Australian rules footballer
- Ted Potter Jr., American PGA Tour golfer
- Thomas Potter (disambiguation), several people, including:
- *Thomas Potter (Universalist), American Universalist
- *Thomas Potter (industrialist), Scottish-born Danish industrialist and merchant
- *Thomas Potter (mayor), mayor of Manchester, England, father of Thomas Bayley Potter
- *Thomas Bayley Potter, British politician
- *Thomas J. Potter, vice-president and general manager of the Union Pacific Railroad
- *Thomas Rossell Potter, British naturalist
- *Tom Potter, Mayor of Portland, Oregon
- *Tommy Potter, jazz double bass player
- Van Rensselaer Potter, American biochemist
- Vincent Potter, army officer, Regicide of King Charles I
- William Potter (disambiguation), several people, including:
- *William Appleton Potter, American architect
- *William C. Potter, American scientist and professor
- *William Everett Potter, Governor of Panama Canal Zone
- *William Knight Potter, businessman and mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
- *William P. Potter, American naval commander
- *William Simpson Potter, British author
- *William W. Potter (Michigan politician), American politician
- *William Wilson Potter, American politician
Given name
- Potter P. Howard, mayor of Boise, Idaho
- Potter Palmer, American businessman and Chicago-area developer
- Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. His opinion in the Jacobellis v. Ohio obscenity trial popularized the phrase "I know it when I see it."
Fictional characters
- The Potter family, principal characters in A.S. Byatt's "Frederica Quartet" novels: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman
- Bonifacio "Potter", from the Peruvian TV series Al Fondo Hay Sitio
- Brian Potter, from the British sitcom Phoenix Nights
- Cedric Potter, from Under Capricorn
- Clarence Potter, from Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory alternate history novel series
- Gail Potter, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
- From the Harry Potter series:
- *Albus Severus Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter 's son
- *Ginny Potter, Harry Potter's wife
- *Harry Potter, title character
- *James Potter, Lily Potter 's husband and Harry Potter's father
- *James Sirius Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter 's son
- *Lily Luna Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter 's daughter
- *Lily Potter, James Potter's wife and Harry Potter's mother
- *Fleamont Potter, James Potter's father and Harry Potter's paternal grandfather
- *Euphemia Potter, James Potter's mother and Harry Potter's paternal grandmother
- Harry Potter Jr., from the film Troll
- Mr. Potter, from the film It's A Wonderful Life
- Joey Potter, from the TV series Dawson's Creek
- Marygay Potter, from Joe Haldeman's science fiction novel The Forever War
- Melvin Potter, a Marvel Comics character, formerly the villain Gladiator
- Mr. Potter, from the film The Stranger
- Norman Potter, the school caretaker from the British sitcom Please Sir!
- Pansy Potter, from The Beano
- Peter Potter "Painless", from The Paleface
- Peter Potter Jr. "Junior", from Son of Paleface
- Professor Potter, a DC Comics character
- Sherman T. Potter, from the TV series M*A*S*H and AfterMASH
- Tycho Potter, from Margaret Mahy's novel ''The Catalogue of the Universe''