Real people

• Alexandra Potter
  Alexandra Potter
  Alexandra Potter is a British author.Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Liverpool University, she worked as a features writer and sub-editor for magazines in both the UK and Australia, before turning to fiction...
  
   (born 1970), British author
• Alfie Potter
  Alfie Potter
  Alfie James Potter is an English footballer who plays for Oxford United.-Career:Potter came through the youth team ranks at Peterborough United, after being released by Wimbledon at the age of 14, then by Millwall aged 17...
  
   (born 1989), English football player
• Allen Potter
  Allen Potter
  Allen Potter was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Potter was born in Galloway and attended the common schools. He moved to Adrian, Michigan in 1830 and to Jonesville, Michigan in 1838 where he learned the trade of tinsmith...
  
   (1818–1885), American politician
• Alonzo Potter
  Alonzo Potter
  The Right Reverend Alonzo Potter was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States who served as the third Bishop of Pennsylvania.-Early life:...
  
  , Bishop of Pennsylvania
• A. J. Potter
  A. J. Potter
  Archibald James Potter was an Irish composer and teacher, who wrote hundreds of works including operas, a mass, and four ballets, as well as orchestral and chamber music.-Early years:...
  
   (Archie) (1918–1980), Irish composer
• Arnold Potter
  Arnold Potter
  Arnold Potter was a self-declared Messiah and a leader of a schismatic sect in Latter Day Saint movement. Potter referred to himself as Potter Christ....
  
   (1804–1872), American self-declared Messiah
• Barbara Potter
  Barbara Potter
  Barbara Potter is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, winning five singles titles and eighteen doubles titles.-Career:...
  
   (born 1961), American tennis player
• Barnaby Potter
  Barnaby Potter
  Barnaby Potter was a Church of England priest, Bishop of Carlisle from 16 March 1628-9 to 1642. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he graduated MA in 1602 and DD in 1615. He was elected a fellow in 1604 and served as Provost, 1616–1626. Although leaning towards Puritanism...
  
   (1577–1642), Bishop of Carlisle
• Beatrix Potter
  Beatrix Potter
  Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.Born into a privileged Unitarian...
  
   (1866–1943), British children's writer
• Brandon Potter
  Brandon Potter
  Brandon Potter is an American voice actor, ADR director, and script writer who works for Funimation Entertainment. He currently resides in NYC where he does additional voices for NYAV Post projects such as Gundam Unicorn & Freedom.-Anime:...
  
  , American voice actor
• Carol Potter
  Carol Potter
  Carol Potter is an American poet and professor. Her most recent collection of poems is Otherwise Obedient , which was a 2008 Lambda Literary Award finalist...
  
  , American poet
• Carol Potter (actress)
  Carol Potter (actress)
  Carol Potter is an American actress best known for playing Cindy Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. She was a regular on the show from 1990 to 1995...
  
   (born 1948), American actress
• Cassandra Potter (born 1981), American curler
• Charles E. Potter
  Charles E. Potter
  Charles Edward Potter was a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.-Early Life:...
  
   (1916–1979), U.S. politician
• Cherry Potter
  Cherry Potter
  Cherry Potter is a film writer, cultural commentator and psychotherapist.Cherry Potter has an MA in film and television from the Royal College of Art....
  
  , British journalist
• Chesca Potter
  Chesca Potter
  Chesca Potter is an artist in the United Kingdom, who has illustrated books , tarot decks , as well as calendars , cards and other media.-External links:*...
  
  , British artist
• Chris Potter (actor)
  Chris Potter (actor)
  Christopher Jay "Chris" Potter is a Canadian actor, musician and pitchman. He is primarily known for his roles on soap operas and prime-time television. Potter is known for his roles as Peter Caine, on the popular 1990s crime drama, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Dr...
  
   (born 1960), Canadian actor
• Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)
  Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)
  Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Potter spent most of his childhood in Columbia, South Carolina where his mother taught psychology at the University of South Carolina...
  
   (born 1971), American saxophonist
• Chris Potter (producer)
  Chris Potter (producer)
  Chris Potter is a British music producer and mixer, most famous for his work as long-term collaborator and producer of The Verve and Richard Ashcroft....
  
  , British record producer
• Cipriani Potter
  Cipriani Potter
  Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter was a British composer, pianist and educator.-Life and career:Born in London, the son of a piano teacher named Richard Huddleston Potter, Cipriani was named after his godmother...
  
   (1792–1871) British composer, pianist and educator
• Clarkson Nott Potter
  Clarkson Nott Potter
  Clarkson Nott Potter was an American civil engineer, then a practising lawyer in New York City, and in 1869-1875 and in 1877-1881 a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was President of the American Bar Association from 1881 to 1882.-Family:Potter was the son of...
  
   (1825–1882), U.S. civil engineer, lawyer and politician
• Craig Potter (footballer)
  Craig Potter (footballer)
  Craig Potter , is a Scottish football defender who is currently playing for Cumnock.-Career:Potter started his career with Ayr United, but failed to play a senior game for them....
  
   (born 1984), Scottish football player
• Cynthia Potter
  Cynthia Potter
  Cynthia Ann Potter is a former American Olympic diver and diving color commentator. She was a member of three Olympic diving teams, winning a bronze medal in the Women's 3m springboard competition in 1976....
  
   (born 1950), American diver
• Dale Potter
  Dale Potter
  Dale Potter was a star linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.Potter played his university football with the University of Ottawa Gee Gees, of whom he was made captain in 1972 and for whom he was named 1971 most valuable player. He began a 12 year career with the...
  
   (born 1949), Canadian football player
• Danny Potter
  Danny Potter
  Daniel Raymond John "Danny" Potter is an English footballer, who signed for Newport County on 29 May 2011, having been released by Torquay United.-Career:...
  
   (born 1979), English football player
• Darren Potter
  Darren Potter
  Darren Michael Potter is an English-born Irish footballer who is currently signed to Milton Keynes Dons.He is a former Liverpool schoolboy captain who hails from the Scotland Road area of the city and is a full Irish international....
  
   (born 1984), Irish football player
• David M. Potter
  David M. Potter
  David M. Potter was an American historian of the South. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, and graduated from Emory University in 1932. At Yale he worked with Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. His earned his Ph.D. in 1940 and published Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis in 1942...
  
   (1910–1971), American historian
• Dennis Potter
  Dennis Potter
  Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.-Biography:Dennis Potter was born...
  
   (1935–1994), British playwright
• Don Potter
  Don Potter
  Donald Steele Potter , was an English sculptor, wood carver, potter and teacher.-Early life:Don Potter was born in Newington, near Sittingbourne, Kent, the son of a school teacher, and attended a private school...
  
   (1902–2004), British sculptor and potter
• Don Potter (musician)
  Don Potter (musician)
  Don Potter is an American musician and producer in Nashville, Tennessee. A longstanding producer for Wynonna Judd, he has become known as "the man who created the Judds' sound".-Musical career:...
  
  , American musician
• Doug Potter
  Doug Potter
  Doug Potter is a creator who has worked in the comics industry. In recognition of his work, he was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best New Talent in 1990.-References:...
  
  , comics creator
• Edmund Potter
  Edmund Potter
  Edmund Potter senior , was a Manchester industrialist and MP and grandfather to Beatrix Potter.He was a unitarian and, from 1861 to 1874, Liberal MP for Carlisle. Potter moved his business to Glossop in 1825, he rebuilt Joseph Lyne's Boggart Mill, and converted it to a printworks. He moved his...
  
  , British millowner in Glossop, Derbyshire
• Edward Clark Potter
  Edward Clark Potter
  Edward Clark Potter was an American sculptor best known for his equestrian and animal statues. His works include the "Fortitude" lion in front of the New York Public Library.-Early years:...
  
   (1857–1923), U.S. sculptor
• Edward Tuckerman Potter
  Edward Tuckerman Potter
  Edward Tuckerman Potter was an American architect best known for designing the 1871 Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. With his half-brother William Appleton Potter, he also designed Nott Memorial Hall at his alma mater, Union College, Schenectady, New York...
  
   (1831–1904), American architect
• Elisha Reynolds Potter
  Elisha Reynolds Potter
  Elisha Reynolds Potter was a statesman in the Federalist Party from Kingston, Rhode Island, who served several times as the Speaker in the Rhode Island State Assembly. Potter ran against Peleg Arnold in a special election for the U.S House of Representatives in 1796 caused by Benjamin Bourne's...
  
   (1764–1835), U.S. Congressman from Rhode Island
• Elisha R. Potter
  Elisha R. Potter
  Elisha Reynolds Potter was a statesman and jurist from Kingston, Rhode Island. He was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and served one term in the United States House of Representatives. His father, Elisha Reynolds Potter, also served in the US Congress. He was a member of the...
  
   (1811–1882), U.S. Congressman from Rhode Island
• Emery D. Potter
  Emery D. Potter
  Emery Davis Potter was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Potter attended the district school and the academy in Herkimer County, New York....
  
   (1804–1896), American politician
• Fuller Potter
  Fuller Potter
  Fuller Potter was an American Abstract expressionist artist. He was born in New York City in 1910, attended St. Bernard's School in New York and Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts, and lived most of his life in his Ledyard, Connecticut estate, near Old Mystic...
  
   (1910–1990), U.S. Abstract expressionist artist
• George Potter
  George Potter
  George Potter was a prominent British trade unionist.-Biography:George Potter was born in Kenilworth, where his father worked as a carpenter. He was educated for a short time at a local dame school, but left to work at a young age to supplement his father's income of three shillings a day...
  
   (1832–1893), British trade unionist
• Gilbert Potter
  Gilbert Potter
  Gilbert Norman Potter, , was a District Inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary. He was born in Dromahair, County Leitrim and was stationed at Cahir, County Tipperary, during the Irish War of Independence...
  
   (1878–1921), Irish police officer
• Glenn Potter
  Glenn Potter
  Glenn Potter is a former collegiate basketball coach, who succeeded Stan Watts at Brigham Young University in 1972. Potter coached three seasons for the Cougars and posted a 42-36 record before resigning in 1975. He was replaced by Frank Arnold-References:...
  
  , American basketball coach
• Graham Potter
  Graham Potter
  Graham Stephen Potter is an English former footballer who made 320 career league appearances and is now a coach in Sweden.-Playing career:...
  
   (born 1975), English football player
• Greg Potter
  Greg Potter
  Greg Potter is an American former comic book writer best known for co-creating the DC Comics series Jemm, Son of Saturn with artist Gene Colan.-Biography:...
  
  , American comic book writer
• Harrison Potter
  Harrison Potter
  Harrison Potter was an American pianist and educator.Potter was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and studied piano with Felix Fox, and, in Paris, Isidor Philipp. Early in his career, Potter taught for a time at Boston's Fox-Buonamici Piano School. He also served as assistant conductor of the...
  
   (1891–1984), American pianist
• Henry Codman Potter
  Henry Codman Potter
  Henry Codman Potter was a bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.-Life:...
  
   (1835–1908), U.S. clergyman
• Horatio Potter
  Horatio Potter
  The Right Reverend Horatio Potter , was an Episcopal Bishop in the Diocese of New York.The youngest brother of Bishop Alonzo Potter, he was born near Beekman , Dutchess County, New York on 9 February 1802, to Quaker farmers Joseph and Anne Potter...
  
   (1802–1887), American bishop
• Ian Potter (writer)
  Ian Potter (writer)
  Ian Potter is a UK based writer and broadcaster, best known for a series of short stories in the Big Finish Short Trips Doctor Who fiction range...
  
   (born 1968), British writer
• Jack Potter
  Jack Potter
  Jack Potter is a former Australian cricketer who played 81 matches for Victoria. He also represented Australia although never in a Test....
  
   (born 1938), Australian cricketer
• James Potter
  James Potter
  James Potter was a soldier, farmer and politician from Colonial- and Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania. He rose to the rank of brigadier general of Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War, and served as Vice-President of Pennsylvania, 1781-1782.-Family and early life:James Potter was of...
  
   (1729–1789), American soldier and politician
• Jenny Potter
  Jenny Potter
  Jenny Schmidgall-Potter is an American ice hockey player. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, silver medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics, and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics...
  
   (born 1979), American ice hockey player
• John Potter (bishop) (c.1674–1747), Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Potter (Liberal politician)
  John Potter (Liberal politician)
  Sir John Potter was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.- Early life :John was born in April 1815 at Polefield near Prestwich, Lancashire. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Potter and his second wife, Esther née Bayley...
  
   (1815–1858), British Liberal politician
• John Potter (Conservative politician)
  John Potter (Conservative politician)
  John Potter was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.At the 1931 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Eccles, but he stood down at the 1935 election....
  
   (1873–1940), British Conservative politician
• John Potter (footballer)
  John Potter (footballer)
  John Paul Potter , is a Scottish defender. He is currently playing for SPL club Dunfermline Athletic. Potter was brought up in High Valleyfield; a small mining village which has produced numerous talents in the past including: Hugh Kelly, George Connelly and John Fraser.He is the cousin of Craig...
  
   (born 1979), Scottish football player
• John E. Potter
  John E. Potter
  John E. "Jack" Potter is the current President and CEO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority since July 18, 2011. He is the former United States Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service , having become the 72nd Postmaster General on June 1, 2001.-Early postal...
  
  , U.S. Postmaster General
• John F. Potter
  John F. Potter
  John Fox Potter nicknamed "Bowie Knife Potter" was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Wisconsin.-Biography:...
  
   (1817–1899), American politician
• Jon Potter
  Jon Potter
  Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter is a Senior Partner and CMO of the McKinney Rogers Group of companies. Before joining McKinney Rogers, Jon Potter was a former field hockey player, who was a member of the golden winning British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.Following his retirement from...
  
   (born 1963), British field hockey player
• Jonathan Potter
  Jonathan Potter
  Jonathan Potter is Professor of Discourse Analysis and, from February 2010, Head of the Department of Social Sciences, at Loughborough University and one of the originators of discursive psychology.-Life:...
  
  , Professor of discourse analysis, Loughborough University
• Jonathan Potter (computer programmer), Australian programmer
• Judith Potter
  Judith Potter
  Judith Marjorie Potter, CBE, is a High Court Judge in New Zealand in 1997.Justice Potter graduated from the University of Auckland in 1965, and went on to become a senior partner at law firm, Kensington Swan...
  
   (born 1942), New Zealand judge
• Lela Brooks Potter
  Lela Brooks Potter
  Lela Alene Brooks was a Canadian world record-holding speed skater.-Career:Born in Toronto, Brooks was the first female member of the Old Orchard Skating Club and began setting Ontario and Canadian records in 1923 at the age of 15. By the end of 1925, when she was 17, Brooks had broken six world...
  
  , Canadian speed skater
• Luke Potter
  Luke Potter
  Luke Alexander Potter is an English footballer who plays for Barnsley as a defender.-Career:Born in Barnsley,Potter made his league debut in Barnsley's final fixture of the 2006–07 season, in which Barnsley lost 7–0 at West Bromwich Albion.He has had three loan spells away from Oakwell...
  
   (born 1989), English football player
• Madeleine Potter
  Madeleine Potter
  Madeleine Potter is an American actress who has played supporting roles in over twenty films and TV shows, including four productions directed by James Ivory. She has also appeared in numerous stage productions in the United States and United Kingdom...
  
  , American actress
• Mark Potter (journalist), American television journalist
• Mark Potter (sportscaster), Canadian sports broadcaster
• Mark Potter (judge)
  Mark Potter (judge)
  Sir Mark Howard Potter PC is an English judge who was President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales from 7 April 2005 to 5 April 2010.-Education:...
  
  , British judge
• Mark Potter (musician), British musician from the band Elbow
• Mark Winslow Potter
  Mark Winslow Potter
  Mark Winslow Potter is perhaps best known for his brilliantly lit landscapes and scenes of rural life in New England, and in the Adirondacks, where he spent summers throughout his entire life. He received a BA from Yale University in 1952, studying under Joseph Albers...
  
  , American artist and educator
• Martin Potter (actor)
  Martin Potter (actor)
  Martin Potter is a British actor.After the National Youth Theatre and repertory theatre in Guildford and Hampstead, Potter received his first role in British television at the age of 24 in the television drama The Bonegrinder written by Dennis Potter...
  
   (born 1944), British actor
• Martin Potter (surfer)
  Martin Potter (surfer)
  Martin "Pottz" Potter , is a former professional surfer-Early Years:His parents emigrated to Durban, South Africa when he was 2 years old. He began surfing off the beaches of his hometown Durban at age 10...
  
   (born 1965), British surfer
• Maureen Potter
  Maureen Potter
  Maria Philomena Potter , known as Maureen Potter, was an acclaimed Irish singer, actor, comedian and performer.-Life:...
  
   (1925–2004), Irish actress
• Michael Potter
  Michael Potter
  Michael "Mick" Potter is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is currently coaching English Super League club Bradford Bulls. Potter played in the Australian club competition for the Canterbury Bulldogs, St...
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer and coach
• Mike Potter (disambiguation), several people
• Mitch Potter
  Mitch Potter
  Mitchell "Mitch" Potter is a male American track and field athlete, who competes in the sprints events, primarily the 400 metres. He is best known for winning the men's 400 metres event at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo...
  
   (born 1980), American track and field athlete
• Monica Potter
  Monica Potter
  Monica Potter is an American film and television actress.-Early life:Potter, one of four daughters, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to an Irish American Roman Catholic family. Her father, Paul Brokaw, was the inventor of the first flame-resistant car wax, and her mother, Nancy, was a secretary....
  
   (born 1971), U.S. actress
• Neal Potter
  Neal Potter
  Neal Potter was an American Democratic politician from Maryland, who served as County Executive of Montgomery County, Maryland from 1990-1994.-Background:...
  
   (1915–2008), American politician
• Ned Potter, American television science journalist
• Nels Potter
  Nels Potter
  Nelson Thomas Potter was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of twelve seasons in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals , Philadelphia Athletics , Boston Red Sox , St...
  
   (1911–1999), American baseball player
• Orlando B. Potter
  Orlando B. Potter
  Orlando Bronson Potter was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Charlemont, Massachusetts , the son of Samuel and Sophia Rice Potter, he attended the district school, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the Dane Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. MA 1867, LLD 1889...
  
   (1823–1894), American politician
• Patricia Potter
  Patricia Potter
  Patricia Caroline Potter is an English actress. Best known for her role as Diane Lloyd in the popular BBC medical drama Holby City, Potter has acted on stage, television, and in film. She married her partner, doctor Jim Down, in May 2007.- Personal life :Potter grew up on a farm in Kent with her...
  
   (born 1975), British actress
• Paulus Potter
  Paulus Potter
  Paulus Potter was a Dutch painter, specialized in animals in landscapes, usually with a low point of view. Before Potter died of tuberculosis, 28-years old, he succeeded in producing about a hundred paintings, working continuously.-Life:Few details are known of Potter's life...
  
   (1625–1654), Dutch painter
• Philip Potter (church leader)
  Philip Potter (church leader)
  Rev Dr Philip Alford Potter was a leader in the Methodist Church and the third General Secretary of the World Council of Churches .-Early life and work:...
  
   (born 1921), Methodist minister
• Philip Potter
  Philip Potter
  Philip Potter is a retired English singer and actor, best known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.-Early life and career:Philip White Potter was born in Leicester...
  
   (born 1936), British opera singer
• Robert Brown Potter
  Robert Brown Potter
  Robert Brown Potter was a United States lawyer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...
  
   (1829–1887), U.S. Civil War General
• Roger Potter
  Roger Potter
  Roger Potter was an American basketball coach, who was the first coach for the NBA's Tri-Cities Blackhawks . He lasted 7 games and was replaced with Red Auerbach.- External links :*...
  
  , American basketball coach
• Ron Potter
  Ron Potter
  Ron Potter was an Australian rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership. He played for the Balmain, Eastern Suburbs and North Sydney clubs as well as being a representative of his state - New South Wales - in the sport....
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer
• Russell Potter
  Russell Potter
  Russell A. Potter is an American writer and college professor. His work encompasses Hip hop culture, popular music, and the history of British exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century...
  
  , American writer
• Sally Potter
  Sally Potter
  Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.-Career:Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play...
  
   (born 1949), British film director and screenwriter
• Samuel J. Potter
  Samuel J. Potter
  Samuel John Potter was a United States Senator from Rhode Island and was a prominent Country Party anti-Federalist leader....
  
   (1753–1804), American Senator
• Sarah Potter
  Sarah Potter
  Sarah Potter is a former cricketer who played seven Test matches and eight One-Day Internationals for the England Women's team between 1984 and 1987. She currently writes on women's cricket for The Times. She was a left-arm fast bowler and a middle order batsman...
  
   (born 1961), English cricketer
• Stephen Potter
  Stephen Potter
  Stephen Meredith Potter was a British author best known for his mocking self-help books, and film and television derivatives from them....
  
   (1900–1969), British author of self-help books
• Ted Potter
  Ted Potter
  Ted Potter is a former Australian rules footballer. A key defender, he was a regular in the Collingwood Magpies side throughout the 1960s....
  
   (born 1944), Australian rules footballer
• Thomas Potter (Universalist), American Universalist
• Thomas Bayley Potter
  Thomas Bayley Potter
  Thomas Bayley Potter DL, JP was a British Liberal Party politician.-Biography:Born in Polefield, Lancashire, he was the son of Sir Thomas Potter and his wife Esther Bayley, daughter of Thomas Bayley. Potter was educated at Rugby School and then at University College, London...
  
   (1817–1898), British politician
• Thomas Rossell Potter
  Thomas Rossell Potter
  Thomas Rossell Potter was a British antiquary. He started a school in Leicestershire, but he is known for his publications about the history and geology of Leicestershire...
  
   (1799–1873), British naturalist
• Tom Potter
  Tom Potter
  Tom Potter is the former Mayor of the city of Portland, Oregon in the United States. He was elected in 2004, and left office in January 2009. He was succeeded by City Commissioner Sam Adams. Prior to Potter's service as mayor, he was Portland's police chief....
  
   (born 1940), Mayor of Portland, Oregon
• Van Rensselaer Potter
  Van Rensselaer Potter
  Van Rensselaer Potter II was an American biochemist. He was professor of oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for more than 50 years....
  
   (1911–2001), U.S. biochemist
• Vincent Potter
  Vincent Potter
  Vincent Potter was an army officer in Parliament's army during the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.-Early life and career:...
  
   (died 1661), regicide of Charles I
• William Potter
  William Potter
  William C. Potter is Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies . He also directs the MIIS Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.Dr. Potter has...
  
  , U.S. scientist
• William Appleton Potter
  William Appleton Potter
  William Appleton Potter was an American architect who designed numerous buildings for Princeton University, as well as municipal offices and churches. He served as a Supervising Architect of the Treasury from 1874 to 1877....
  
   (1842–1909), American architect
• William Everett Potter
  William Everett Potter
  William Everett Potter was Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1956 to 1960.He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1928. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1933 with a degree in civil engineering. He served as Governor of the Panama...
  
   (1905–1988), Governor of Panama Canal Zone
• William P. Potter, U.S. naval commander
• William Simpson Potter
  William Simpson Potter
  William Simpson Potter was a minor 19th century English author. From available information, Potter was a friend of Henry Spencer Ashbee, a merchant, bibliographer, bibliophile, authority on the life and works of Cervantes, and collector of erotic materials...
  
   (1805–1879), British author
• William Wilson Potter
  William Wilson Potter
  William Wilson Potter was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William W. Potter was born at Potters Mills, Pennsylvania. He completed preparatory studies in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania...
  
   (1792–1839), American politician
• William W. Potter (Michigan politician)
  William W. Potter (Michigan politician)
  William W. Potter was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Potter was born to Lucien B. and Clarinda L. Potter in Maple Grove Township, Barry County, Michigan. He was a resident of East Lansing and was married to Margaret D...
  
   (1869–1940), American politician

Fictional characters

• Brian Potter
  Brian Potter
  Brian Chelsea Potter, one of many fictional characters played by Peter Kay, is the owner of The Phoenix Club in both That Peter Kay Thing and Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights...
  
   (Phoenix Nights)
• Clarence Potter (Timeline-191)
• From the Harry Potter series
  • Harry Potter
    Harry Potter (character)
    Harry James Potter is the title character and main protagonist of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard...
    
    
  • Ginny Potter (née Weasley), Harry Potter's wife
  • James Potter
  • Lily Potter (née Evans), James Potter's wife
  • Albus Severus Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter (née Weasley)'s son
  • James Sirius Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter (née Weasley)'s son
  • Lily Luna Potter, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter (née Weasley)'s daughter
• Harry Potter Jr., from the film Troll
  Troll (film)
  Troll is a 1986 cult dark fantasy film. Its plot has no relation to the films Troll 2 and Troll 3, which are intended to be more horror than fantasy. Its "sequel", Troll 2 is considered to be one of the worst films of all time.-Plot:...
  
  
• Joey Potter
  Joey Potter
  Josephine "Joey" Lynn Potter is a fictional character portrayed by Katie Holmes in the American television drama Dawson's Creek.-Character biography:...
  
   (Dawson's Creek)
• Marygay Potter from The Forever War
• Pansy Potter
  Pansy Potter
  Pansy Potter The Strongman's Daughter was a comic strip in The Beano, featuring Pansy Potter, a really strong girl. First appearing in the issue dated 17 December 1938. Around 1949 Jimmy Clark took up drawing the Strip, and it became known as Pansy Potter in Wonderland...
  
   (The Beano)
• Professor Potter
  Professor Potter
  Professor Phineas Potter is a supporting character in stories published by DC Comics featuring Superman and several related characters, most notably Jimmy Olsen...
  
   (DC Comics)
• Sherman T. Potter (M*A*S*H)
• Henry F. Potter ("Old Man Potter"), from the film It's a Wonderful Life
• Bonifacio "Potter", from the Peruvian TV Series, Al Fondo Hay Sitio