Cotton (surname)

Athletes

• Amy Cotton, Canadian judoka
• Craig Cotton, American football player
• Fran Cotton, rugby footballer of the 1970s and 1980s
• Henry Cotton , English golfer
• James Cotton , American basketball player
• James Cotton , American football player
• Jharel Cotton, American baseball player
• Keith Cotton, rugby footballer of the 1960s and 1970s
• Paris Cotton, American football player
• Schea Cotton, American basketball player
• Terry Cotton, English footballer

  Musicians

• Billy Cotton, British band leader
• Gene Cotton, American pop and folk singer-songwriter
• James Cotton, American blues harmonica player, singer, songwriter
• Jeff Cotton, American rock guitarist
• Paul Cotton , American guitar player

  Politicians and nobility

• Dorothy Cotton, American civil rights activist
• George W. Cotton, South Australian politician
• Norris Cotton, American politician
• Paul Cotton , New Zealand diplomat
• The Cotton baronets
• Tom Cotton, American politician

  Science and engineering

• Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, antiquarian and bibliophile, creator of the basis of the British Library
• Aimé Cotton, French scientist
• *Cotton effect, named after him
• Sir Arthur Cotton, British general and engineer famous for his work in India
• Arthur Disbrowe Cotton, botanist, species author Cotton and a president of the British Mycological Society
• Bernard Charles Cotton, Australian malacologist
• Charles Cotton, New Zealand geologist
• Émile Cotton, French mathematician, discoverer of the Cotton tensor
• F. Albert Cotton, American inorganic chemist

  Television

• Antony Cotton, British actor, best known for his roles in Coronation Street and Queer as Folk
• Bill Cotton, British television executive
• Fearne Cotton, English television presenter and radio 1 DJ
• Dot Cotton

  Other

• Charles Cotton, poet
• David Cotton, American billionaire businessman
• John Cotton , clergyman, grandfather of Cotton Mather
• Mary Ann Cotton, British serial killer
• Richard Lynch Cotton, British vicar and university administrator
• Robert Cotton, several people
• Sarah Cotton, British wife of the academic and medic Sir Henry Acland, inspiration for the Acland Hospital
• Sir Sydney Cotton, British Army officer.
• Thomas Cotton, several people
• William Cotton, several people