Potts

Potts is used as a surname and may refer to:

Alistair Potts (born 1971), British rower
Allan Potts (1904–1952), American speed skater
Andrew-Lee Potts (born 1979), British actor
Andy Potts (born 1976), athlete from the United States
Annie Potts (born 1952), American television and film actress
Arnold Potts (Brigadier Arnold William Potts DSO OBE MC MID) (1896–1968), Australian grazier who served in both World Wars
Arthur Potts (1888–1981), English footballer
Arthur Edward Potts, Canadian general
Benjamin F. Potts, American Civil War general and postbellum three-term governor of the Montana Territory
Bill Potts (1928–2005), American jazz pianist and arranger
Cameron Potts, rock and roll musician based in Melbourne, Australia
Carl Potts, American comic-book writer, artist and editor
Charles Potts (born 1943), American projectivist poet
Cliff Potts (born 1942), American actor
Daddy Potts, professional football player
David Potts - English musician
David M. Potts (1906–1976) - United States Congressman from New York
David Potts, Jr. (1794–1863) - United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
Ebinabo Potts-Johnson (born 1988), first-runner-up in Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2007
Edward Potts (Gymnast) (1881–1944), British gymnast
Edward Potts (architect) (1839–1909), British architect
Eric Potts, British actor
Frank Potts, former head coach of the Colorado college football program
Frederic A. Potts (1836–1888), American businessman and Republican party politician
Frederick William Owen Potts, English soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the first World War
Gary Potts, the former chief of the Temagami First Nation and the Teme-Augama Anishnabai
Geoffrey Potts, cognitive psychologist and professor in Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States
Harry Potts (1920–1996), English football player and manger
Jason Potts, New Zealand-born academic economist
Jerry Potts (c. 1840–1896), Canadian Métis guide and interpreter
Joe Potts, Scottish racing driver and racing car constructor
John Potts (Pennsylvanian), founder of Pottstown and Pottsgrove in Pennsylvania
John Potts (cricketer) (born 1960), British cricketer
John Potts (UK politician) (1861–1938), British politician
John Potts (footballer) (born 1904), British footballer
Jonathan Potts, actor whose career began in the late 1980s
Laramie Potts, American scientist at the Ohio State University
Lisa Potts, George Medal holder, teacher injured when paranoid schizophrenic attacked her class with a machete in 1996
Malcolm Potts, physician and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, United States
Midge Potts, American peace activist
Mike Potts (baseball) (Born 1970), former left-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher
Myna Potts (born 1927), American historical preservationist
Paul Potts (born 1970), British tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007
Paul Potts (writer) (1911-1990), poet, author of Dante Called You Beatrice
Reg Potts (1927–1996), English footballer
Reginald Potts (born 1892), British gymnast
Renfrey Potts, Australian mathematician
Richard Potts (1753–1808), American politician
Roosevelt Potts (born 1971), former professional American football player
Russ Potts (H. Russell Potts Jr.) (born 1939), Republican state senator in Virginia, United States
Sarah-Jane Potts (born 1976), British actress
Sean Potts (born 1930), Irish musician
Stephen Potts, British author of children’s books
Steve Potts (footballer) (born 1967), American-born English former professional footballer
Steve Potts (jazz musician) (born 1943), American jazz saxophonist
Taylor Potts (born 1987), American college football player who is a quarterback for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team from 2006
Templin Potts (1855–1927), American naval officer and 11th Naval Governor of Guam
Thomas Potts (1824–1888), British-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, entomologist, and botanist
Tommy Potts (1912–1988), Irish musician
Tony Potts (born 1963), American television presenter
Travon Potts, the youngest of three sons born to Malcolm and Mary Potts on June 3, 1970
Wallace Potts (1947–2006), American film director, screenwriter, and archivist
William Potts (1883–1947), American policeman and inventor of the three-aspect traffic light
William E. Potts (1921–2005), American general
William Potts Dewees (1768–1841), American physician, best known for his work in obstetrics

Potts also names:

Places:

Potts Camp, Mississippi, town in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States
Potts Point, New South Wales, small densely-populated suburb of inner Sydney, Australia
Black Potts Ait, island in the River Thames in England near Windsor, Berkshire
Mount Potts, specialist backcountry skiing base in South Island, New Zealand
Potts Creek, Virginia, unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States
Potts Hill, New South Wales a small suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia

Mathematics:

Potts model, model of interacting spins on a crystalline lattice
Cellular Potts model, lattice-based computational modeling method to simulate the collective behavior of cellular structures
Chiral Potts curve, algebraic curve defined over the complex numbers that occurs in the study of the chiral Potts model of statistical mechanics

Fiction:

Caractacus Potts, fictional character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Clytie Potts, a fictional character in Philip Reeve's hungry city chronicles
Doc Potts, animated television series
Douglas Potts, fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
Hilary Potts, fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
Pepper Potts, fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
Sarah Potts (character), fictional character on the soap opera Shortland Street
Tom Potts, Child ballad 109
The Potts, said to be the world's longest-running cartoon strip drawn by the same artist

Other:

Potts of Leeds, major British manufacturer of public clocks, based in Leeds, UK