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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:

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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
  • 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
  • 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)

    • References

    Potter (name) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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