Rutter

Rutter is a surname of English origin.

As surname

• Barrie Rutter (born 1946): English actor and theatre director
• Brad Rutter (born 1978): US quiz show host
• Dale Rutter (born 1972): birth name of US pornographic actor Dale DaBone
• Eileen Joyce (Joy) Rutter (born 1945): English fantasy writer known by pen name of Joy Chant
• Frank Rutter (1876–1937): founder of Leeds Art Collections Fund, 1912
• Jane Rutter (born 1958): Australian flautist
• John Rutter (born 1945): English composer and conductor
• Keith Rutter (born 1934): footballer
• Professor Sir Michael Rutter (born 1933): first English professor of child psychiatry
• Michael Rutter (born 1973): motorcycle racer
• Owen Rutter (1889–1944): British author
• Peta Rutter (born 1959): New Zealander actress
• Sally Perkins Rutter (1913–1983): birth name of US actress Gale Page
• Tommy Rutter (born 1977): footballer
• Tony Rutter (born 1941): motorcycle racer, father of Michael Rutter
• Troy Rutter (born 1973): actor
• Thomas Rutter (born 1945): American Author; For the Love of Paris
• William J. Rutter (born 1926): Biochemist and co-founder of Chiron Corporation

As middle name

• John Rutter Brooke (1838–1926): US Major-General
• Thaddeus Rutter Shideler (1884–1966): US hurdler
• William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868): British astronomer

In fiction

• Anita Rutter: Anita and Me, 1996 novel and Anita and Me, 2002 film
• Dr Rutter: Incompetence, 2003 novel

Other uses

• Operation Rutter: code name for the Dieppe Raid in 1942
• Rutter, Ontario: community in Canada named after engineer Fred Rutter
• Rutter (nautical): pilot book or seaman's guide carried by navigators in the Middle Ages; a precursor to the modern navigation chart
• Rutter of the Northern seas: Scottish sea chart.
• A occasional alternative spelling of routiers.