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
- Alexandra Potter (born 1970), British author
- Alfie Potter (born 1989), English football player
- Alfred Potter (1827–1878), English clergyman and cricketer
- Allen Potter (1818–1885), American politician
- Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania
- A. J. Potter (Archie) (1918–1980), Irish composer
- Arnold Potter (1804–1872), American self-declared Messiah
- Barbara Potter (born 1961), American tennis player
- Barnaby Potter (1577–1642), Bishop of Carlisle
- Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), British children's writer
- Bert Potter (disambiguation), several people including:
- Bert Potter (composer) (1874–1930), American composer
- Brandon Potter, American voice actor
- Carol Potter (poet), American poet
- Carol Potter (actress) (born 1948), American actress
- Cassandra Potter (born 1981), American curler
- Charles E. Potter (1916–1979), U.S. politician
- Cherry Potter, British journalist
- Christopher Potter (disambiguation), several people, including:
- Chris Potter (actor) (born 1960), Canadian actor, musician and pitchman
- Christopher Potter (author) (born 1959), publisher and managing director of Fourth Estate
- Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist) (born 1971), American jazz saxophonist and composer
- Chris Potter (priest) (born 1969), Dean of St Asaph
- Chris Potter (record producer), British record producer and mixer
- Christopher Potter (1591–1646), English academic and clergyman.
- Christopher Potter (died 1817), MP for Colchester 1781–2 and 1784
- Cipriani Potter (1792–1871) British composer, pianist and educator
- Clare Potter (1903–1999), American fashion designer
- Clarkson Nott Potter (1825–1882), U.S. civil engineer, lawyer and politician
- Craig Potter (footballer) (born 1984), Scottish football player
- Cynthia Potter (born 1950), American diver
- Dale Potter (born 1949), Canadian football player
- Danny Potter (born 1979), English football player
- Darren Potter (born 1984), Irish football player
- David M. Potter (1910–1971), American historian
- Dennis Potter (1935–1994), British playwright
- Don Potter (1902–2004), British sculptor and potter
- Don Potter (musician), American musician
- Dora Joan Potter (1915–1987), Australian children's author
- Edmund Potter, British millowner in Glossop, Derbyshire
- Edward Clark Potter (1857–1923), U.S. sculptor
- Edward Tuckerman Potter (1831–1904), American architect
- Elisha Reynolds Potter (1764–1835), U.S. Congressman from Rhode Island
- Elisha R. Potter (1811–1882), U.S. Congressman from Rhode Island
- Emery D. Potter (1804–1896), American politician
- Frederick Potter (1857–1941), New Zealand businessman
- Fuller Potter (1910–1990), U.S. Abstract expressionist artist
- George Potter (disambiguation), several people
- Gilbert Potter (1878–1921), Irish police officer
- Glenn Potter, American basketball coach
- Graham Potter (born 1975), English footballer and manager
- Greg Potter, American comic book writer
- Harrison Potter (1891–1984), American pianist
- Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908), U.S. clergyman
- Horatio Potter (1802–1887), American bishop
- Ian Potter (writer) (born 1968), British writer
- Jack Potter (born 1938), Australian cricketer
- James Potter (1729–1789), American soldier and politician
- Jenny Potter (born 1979), American ice hockey player
- John Potter (bishop) (c. 1674 – 1747), Archbishop of Canterbury
- John Potter (Liberal politician) (1815–1858), British Liberal politician
- John Potter (Conservative politician) (1873–1940), British Conservative politician
- John Potter (footballer) (born 1979), Scottish football player
- John E. Potter, U.S. Postmaster General
- John F. Potter (1817–1899), American politician
- Jon Potter (born 1963), British field hockey player
- Jonathan Potter, Professor of discourse analysis, Loughborough University
- Jonathan Potter (cricketer) (born 1971), English cricketer
- Jonathan Potter (computer programmer), Australian programmer
- Judith Potter (born 1942), New Zealand judge
- Lela Brooks Potter, Canadian speed skater
- Luke Potter (born 1989), English football player
- Madeleine Potter, American actress
- Maisie Potter (born 1997), British snowboarder
- Mark Potter (sportscaster), Canadian sports broadcaster
- Mark Potter (judge), British judge
- Mark Potter (musician), British musician from the band Elbow
- Martin Potter (actor) (born 1944), British actor
- Martin Potter (surfer) (born 1965), British surfer
- Maureen Potter (1925–2004), Irish actress
- Michael Potter, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
- Mike Potter (disambiguation), several people
- Mitch Potter (born 1980), American track and field athlete
- Monica Potter (born 1971), U.S. actress
- Neal Potter (1915–2008), American politician
- Nels Potter (1911–1999), American baseball player
- Nelson Thomas Potter Jr. (1939–2013), American philosopher
- Norm Potter, Australian rugby league footballer
- Orlando B. Potter (1823–1894), American politician
- Patricia Potter (born 1975), British actress
- Paulus Potter (1625–1654), Dutch painter
- Philip Potter (church leader) (1921–2015), Methodist minister
- Philip Potter (born 1936), British opera singer
- Robert Brown Potter (1829–1887), U.S. Civil War General
- Robert Potter (1909–2010), British architect
- Roger Potter, American basketball coach
- Ron Potter, Australian rugby league footballer
- Russell Potter, American writer
- Sally Potter (born 1949), British film director and screenwriter
- Samuel J. Potter (1753–1804), American Senator
- Sarah Potter (born 1961), English cricketer
- Stephen Potter (1900–1969), British author of self-help books
- Ted Potter (born 1944), Australian rules footballer
- Ted Potter Jr. (born 1983), American PGA Tour golfer
- Thomas Potter (Universalist), American Universalist
- Thomas Bayley Potter (1817–1898), British politician
- Thomas Rossell Potter (1799–1873), British naturalist
- Tom Potter (born 1940), Mayor of Portland, Oregon
- Van Rensselaer Potter (1911–2001), U.S. biochemist
- Vincent Potter (died 1661), regicide of Charles I
- William C. Potter, U.S. scientist
- William Appleton Potter (1842–1909), American architect
- William Everett Potter (1905–1988), Governor of Panama Canal Zone
- William P. Potter, U.S. naval commander
- William Simpson Potter (1805–1879), British author
- William Wilson Potter (1792–1839), American politician
- William W. Potter (Michigan politician) (1869–1940), American politician
Given name
- Potter P. Howard (fl. 1947–1951), mayor of Boise, Idaho
- Potter Palmer (1826–1902), American businessman and Chicago-area developer
- Potter Stewart (1915–1985), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Fictional characters
- The Potter family, principal characters in A.S. Byatt's "Frederica Quartet" novels The Virgin in the Garden (1978), Still Life (1985), Babel Tower (1996), and A Whistling Woman (2002)
- Bonifacio "Potter", from the Peruvian TV series Al Fondo Hay Sitio
- Brian Potter (character), 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 soap opera Coronation Street
- From the Harry Potter series
- Albus Severus Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter (née Weasley)'s son
- Ginny Potter (née Weasley), Harry Potter's wife
- Harry Potter, title character
- James Potter, Lily Potter (née Evans)' husband
- James Sirius Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter (née Weasley)'s son
- Lily Luna Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter (née Weasley)'s daughter
- Lily Potter (née Evans), James Potter's wife
- Harry Potter Jr., from the film Troll
- Henry 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 The Gladiator
- Pansy Potter, from The Beano
- Peter Potter, from The Paleface
- Peter Potter Jr., from Son of Paleface
- Professor Potter, a DC Comics character
- Sherman T. Potter, from the TV series M*A*S*H and AfterMASH
See also
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