Waters is a surname, and may refer to:
- Alice Waters (born 1944), American chef
- Allan Waters (1921–2005), Canadian businessman
- Anthony Waters (born 1985), American football linebacker
- Beau Waters (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
- Ben Waters, New Zealand rower
- Brian Waters (born 1977), American football guard
- Craig Waters (born 1956), public information officer of the Florida Supreme Court
- Charlie Waters (born 1948), American footballer
- Crystal Waters (born 1964), American singer/songwriter
- Dan Waters, a politician in Ontario, Canada.
- Daniel Waters (1731–1816), officer in the United States Navy.
- Daniel Waters (writer) (born 1962), American screenwriter and film director, brother of Mark S. Waters
- David Waters (Australian actor)
- David Roland Waters, the killer of the American activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- Dina Waters (born 1965), American actress, also known as Dina Spybey
- Ethel Waters (1896–1977, American blues vocalist and actress
- Fraser Waters (born 1976), South African footballer
- Harry Waters, British piano and Hammond organ player
- Huw Waters (born 1986), Welsh cricketer
- James Waters, Chairman of CHUM Limited
- Jeff Waters (born 1966), Canadian guitarist
- John Waters (disambiguation):
- John Waters (columnist), Irish columnist
- John S. Waters (1893–1965), American filmmaker who directed films from 1916 until 1958
- John K. Waters (1906–1989), former U.S. General, prisoner of war, and son-in-law of George S. Patton
- John Samuel Waters, Jr. (born 1946), American filmmaker
- John Waters (actor) (born 1948), Australian actor
- Joseph Waters
- Katarina Waters (born 1980), English wrestler
- Keith Waters (born 1962), pioneer in facial animation
- Latanza Waters, home music singer
- Lesley Waters (born 1961), English celebrity chef
- Lou Waters, CNN anchor
- Margaret Waters (died 1870), English murderess
- Mark Waters (director) (born 1964), American film director
- Mark AJ Waters (Irish Director)
- Maxine Waters (born 1938), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Miriam Van Waters (1887–1974), American feminist social worker
- Morgan Waters (born 1981), Canadian actor
- Muddy Waters (1913–1983), American blues musician
- Patty Waters, jazz vocalist
- Roger Waters (born 1943), English rock musician from Pink Floyd band
- Ron Waters, director and Vice President of CHUM Limited
- Russell Waters (1908–1982), Scottish film actor
- Sarah Waters (born 1966), British novelist
- Stanley Waters (1920–1991), Canadian Senator
- T.A. Waters, American writer fl. 1960s
- Terence Edward Waters (1929–1951), British soldier awarded the George Cross
Famous quotes containing the word waters:
“Shee said, Lullabye, my owne deere child!
Lullabye, deere child, deere!
I wold thy father were a king,
Thy mother layd on a beere!
‘Peace now,’ he said, ‘good Faire Ellen,
And be of good cheere, I thee pray,
And the bridall and the churching both,
They shall bee upon one day.’”
—Unknown. Child Waters (l. 157–164)
“Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)