A potter is someone who makes pottery. It can also mean "to move about aimlessly", especially in the phrases "potter around" and "potter about". Potter may also refer to: [edit] People - Alexandra Potter (born 1970), British author
- Alfie Potter (born 1989), English football player
- 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
- Bert Potter (born 1925), New Zealand criminal
- Brandon Potter, American voice actor
- Carol Potter, American poet
- Carol Potter (born 1948), American actress
- Cassandra Potter (born 1981), American curler
- Charles E. Potter (1916–1979), U.S. politician
- Cherry Potter, British journalist
- Chesca Potter, British artist
- Chris Potter (born 1960), Canadian actor
- Chris Potter (born 1971), American saxophonist
- Chris Potter, British record producer
- Cipriani Potter (1792–1871) British composer, pianist and educator
- Clarkson Nott Potter (1825–1882), U.S. civil engineer, lawyer and politician
- Craig Potter (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, American musician
- Doug Potter, comics creator
- Edmund Potter, British millowner in Glossop, Derbyshire
- Edward Clark Potter (1857–1923), U.S. sculptor
- Edward Tuckerman Potter (1831–1904), American architect
- Eliphalet Nott Potter (1836–1901) U.S. clergyman
- 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
- Harrison Potter (1891–1984), American pianist
- Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908), U.S. clergyman
- Horatio Potter (1802–1887), American bishop
- Ian Potter (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 (c.1674–1747), Archbishop of Canterbury
- John Potter (1815–1858), British Liberal politician
- John Potter (1873–1940), British Conservative politician
- John Potter (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, 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, American television journalist
- Mark Potter, Canadian sports broadcaster
- Sir Mark Potter, British jurist
- Mark Potter, British musician from the band Elbow
- Martin Potter (born 1944), British actor
- Martin Potter (born 1965), British surfer
- Maureen Potter (1925–2004), Irish actress
- Melissa Potter( Bassoonist)Australian Babe
- Michael Potter, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
- Mike Potter (born 1949), American racing driver
- Mitch Potter (born 1980), American track and field athlete
- Monica Potter (born 1971), U.S. actress
- Neal Potter (1915–2008), American politician
- Ned Potter, American television science journalist
- Nels Potter (1911–1999), American baseball player
- Orlando B. Potter (1823–1894), American politician
- Patricia Potter (born 1975), British actress
- Paulus Potter (1625–1654), Dutch painter
- Philip Potter (born 1921), Methodist minister
- Philip Potter (born 1936), British opera singer
- Robert Brown Potter (1829–1887), U.S. Civil War General
- 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
- Thomas Potter, 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
- Waldo Charles Potter (1885-1971), Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Field Artillery, World War I & II
- William 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 (1869–1940), American politician
[edit] Fictional characters [edit] Places - Potter, California
- Potter, Nebraska
- Potter, New York
- Potter, Wisconsin
- Potter County, South Dakota
- Potter County, Pennsylvania
- Potter County, Texas
- Potter Heigham, The Broads, Norfolk
- Potter Island, Nunavut, Canada
- Potter Lake, Wisconsin
- Potter Township, Pennsylvania
- Potter Valley, California
- Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
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