Potts (surname)
Potts is a surname of English origin. The word potts refers to circular hollows in the ground.
Notable people with the name include:
- Alec Potts, Australian archer
- Alistair Potts, British rower
- Allan Potts, American speed skater
- Allan Potts (athletics), New Zealand athlete, coach, and administrator
- Alpheus Potts, American lawyer, judge, and politician
- Andrew Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Anna Longshore Potts, American physician
- Annie Potts, American actress
- Arnold Potts, Australian Brigadier and grazier
- Arthur Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Barbara Potts, American politician
- Benjamin F. Potts, American lawyer, politician, and soldier
- Bill Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Brad Potts, English footballer
- Cameron Potts, Australian rock musician
- Carl Potts, American comic-book writer, artist, and editor
- Charles Potts, American projectivist poet
- Cliff Potts, American actor
- Daddy Potts, American football player
- David Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Denys Campion Potts, British modern linguist
- Ebinabo Potts-Johnson, Nigerian beauty pageant contestant and model
- Edward Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Eric Potts, British actor
- Frank Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Frederick Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Gareth Potts, British pool player
- Gary Potts, chief of the Temagami First Nation and the Teme-Augama Anishnabai
- Geoffrey Potts, American cognitive psychologist and professor
- Harry Potts, English football player and manager
- Jason Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Jerry Potts, Canadian Métis guide and interpreter
- Joe Potts, Scottish race car driver and constructor
- Joe Potts (footballer), English footballer
- John Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Ken Potts, American sailor
- Laramie Potts, American civil and environmental engineer, scientist, and educator
- Laura Potts, English poet
- Leonard Potts, English academic and translator
- Lisa Potts, British schoolteacher, public health nurse, and author; injured defending children in her care from a machete attack
- Malcolm Potts, British-born American physician, reproductive scientist, author, and professor
- Marie Mason Potts, Maidu journalist and activist
- Matthew Potts, English cricketer
- Matthew Ichihashi Potts, American theologian and preacher
- Michael Potts or Mike Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Midge Potts, American peace activist and politician
- Natalie Potts, American basketball player
- Olivia Potts, British cookery writer
- Paul Potts, British tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007
- Paul Potts (writer), British-born poet, author of Dante Called You Beatrice
- Robin Buxton Potts, Canadian politician
- Reg Potts, English footballer
- Reginald Potts, British gymnast
- Renfrey Potts, Australian mathematician
- Richard Potts, American politician and jurist
- Roosevelt Potts, American football player
- Russ Potts, American businessman and politician
- Ruan Potts, South African mixed martial artist
- Sarah-Jane Potts, British actress
- Seán Potts, Irish musician
- Steve Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Taylor Potts, American football player
- Templin Potts, American naval officer and Naval Governor of Guam
- Thomas Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Tony Potts, American television presenter
- Tony Potts (politician), American politician
- Travon Potts, American songwriter and producer
- Wallace Potts, American film director, screenwriter, and archivist
- William Potts (disambiguation), several people
- Zoe Potts, English rugby player
Fictional characters
- Bill Potts (Doctor Who), a character in Doctor Who
- Caractacus Pott, a character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Clytie Potts, a character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet
- Douglas Potts, a character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
- Hilary Potts, a character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
- Pepper Potts, a character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Sarah Potts (Shortland Street), a character on the soap opera ''Shortland Street''