Potter (name)

Potter is an occupational 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
• 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
• Chris Potter (actor) (born 1960), Canadian actor
• Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist) (born 1971), American saxophonist
• Chris Potter (producer), British record producer
• 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
• Fuller Potter (1910–1990), U.S. Abstract expressionist artist
• George Potter (1832–1893), British trade unionist
• Gilbert Potter (1878–1921), Irish police officer
• Glenn Potter, American basketball coach
• Graham Potter (born 1975), English football player
• 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
• Jillon Potter, American rugby 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 (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
• Mark Potter (sportscaster), Canadian sports broadcaster
• Mark Potter (judge), British judge
• Mark Potter (musician), British musician from the band Elbow
• Mark Winslow Potter, American artist and educator
• 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 entitled 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) (Phoenix Nights)
• Clarence Potter (Timeline-191)
• 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 It's A Wonderful Life
• Joey Potter (Dawson's Creek)
• Marygay Potter from The Forever War
• Melvin Potter (Marvel Comics) Formerly the supervillain The Gladiator
• Pansy Potter (The Beano)
• Professor Potter (DC Comics)
• Sherman T. Potter (M*A*S*H)
• Gail Potter (Coronation Street)