Potts (surname)

• Alec Potts, Australian archer
• Alistair Potts, British rower
• Allan Potts, American speed skater
• Allan Potts , New Zealand athlete, athletics coach and administrator
• Andrew-Lee Potts, British actor
• Andrew R. Potts, American politician
• Andy Potts, American athlete
• Annie Potts, American television and film actress
• Arnold Potts , Australian grazier who served in both World Wars
• Arthur Potts , English footballer
• Arthur Potts, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Beaches—East York in Toronto.
• Arthur Edward Potts, Canadian general
• Barbara Potts, first woman mayor of Independence, Missouri, United States
• Benjamin F. Potts, American Civil War general and postbellum three-term governor of the Montana Territory
• Ben Potts, British-Swedish Producer, Songwriter and DJ, most known for producing swedish pop records, and his involvement with Avicii and the Avicii Tribute Concert
• Bill Potts , American jazz pianist and arranger
• Bill Potts, Australian lawyer
• Cameron Potts, rock and roll musician based in Melbourne, Australia
• Carl Potts, American comic-book writer, artist and editor
• Charles Potts, American projectivist poet
• Cliff Potts, American actor
• Daddy Potts, professional football player
• David Potts , English rock singer, former member of the band Monaco
• David M. Potts, Congressman from New York
• David Potts, Jr., anti-Masonic Congressman from Pennsylvania
• David M. Potts , professor of Analytical Soil Mechanics at Imperial College London
• David Potts , CEO of the British supermarket chain Morrisons
• David Potts , Australian photographer
• Ebinabo Potts-Johnson, first-runner-up in Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2007
• Edward Potts , British architect
• Edward Potts , British gymnast
• Eric Potts, British actor
• Frank Potts, former head coach of the Colorado college football program
• Frederic A. Potts, 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, English football player and manager
• Jason Potts, New Zealand-born academic economist
• Jerry Potts, Canadian Métis guide and interpreter
• Joe Potts, Scottish racing driver and racing car constructor
• John Potts , British cricketer
• John Potts , British footballer
• John Potts, founder of Pottstown and Pottsgrove in Pennsylvania
• John Potts , British politician
• 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 , former left-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher
• Myna Potts, American historical preservationist
• Paul Potts , British tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007
• Paul Potts , poet, author of Dante Called You Beatrice
• Reg Potts, English footballer
• Reginald Potts, British gymnast
• Renfrey Potts, Australian mathematician
• Richard Potts, American politician
• Roosevelt Potts, former professional American football player
• Roy Potts, motocross champion 1999 and 2015
• Russ Potts , Republican state senator in Virginia, United States
• Sarah-Jane Potts, British actress
• Sean Potts, Irish musician
• Stephen Potts, British author of children's books
• Steve Potts , American-born English former professional footballer
• Steve Potts , American jazz saxophonist
• Taylor Potts, American college football player who is a quarterback for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team from 2006
• Templin Potts, American naval officer and 11th Naval Governor of Guam
• Thomas Potts, British-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, entomologist, and botanist
• Tommy Potts, Irish musician
• Tony Potts, American television presenter
• Travon Potts, the youngest of three sons born to Malcolm and Mary Potts on June 3, 1970
• Wallace Potts, American film director, screenwriter, and archivist
• William Potts , American policeman and inventor of the three-aspect traffic light
• William E. Potts, American general
• William Potts Dewees, American physician, best known for his work in obstetrics

  Characters

• Bill Potts, a character in Doctor Who
• Caractacus Potts, a character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Clytie Potts, a character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet
• Douglas Potts, a character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
• Hilary Potts, a character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
• Pepper Potts, a character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Sarah Potts, a character on the soap opera Shortland Street