Holder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
In politics and government:
Eric H. Holder, Jr. (born 1951), United States Attorney General
Frederick Holder (1850–1909), South Australia politician
Janice M. Holder (born 1949), American jurist
Trevor Holder (born 1973), Canadian politician
In military and naval:
Burton Allen Holder (1843–1920), Chickasaw Indian who served as a Confederate officer in the American Civil War
Randolph M. Holder (1918–1942), American naval aviator
In entertainment:
Albrecht Holder, (born 1958), a German classical bassoonist
Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014), American character actor, choreographer and dancer
Joseph William Holder (1764–1832), English composer
Meagan Holder, American actress
Noddy Holder (born 1946), English musician and actor
Roy Holder (born 1946), English television actor
In academics and literature:
Alfred Holder (1840–1916), Austrian-German classicist
Colleen Holder, Trinidad and Tobago news presenter and producer
Nancy Holder, American writer
William Holder (1616–1698), English music theorist
In religion:
Christopher Holder (born c. 1631), Anglo-American Quaker minister
In science and technology:
Joseph Bassett Holder (1824–1888), American zoologist and physician
Livingston L. Holder, Jr., an executive with a private spaceflight company
Otto Hölder (1859–1937), German mathematician
In sports:
Charles Frederick Holder (1851–1915), American sports fisherman and early 20th century author on fishing
Edward Holder (1908–1974), All Black
Jason Holder (born 1991), Barbadian cricketer
Phil Holder, English football manager and coach
Roland Holder (born 1967), West Indian cricketer
Vanburn Holder (born 1945), West Indian cricketer
Will Holder (American football) (born 1975), American Arena Football League player
In fiction:
Alexander Holder, a character in The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Stephen Holder, a character on the American crime drama television series The Killing.
