Potts
Potts may refer to:
People
- Alistair Potts (born 1971), British rower
- Allan Potts (1904–1952), American speed skater
- Allan Potts (athletics) (1934–2014), New Zealand athlete, athletics coach and administrator
- Andrew-Lee Potts (born 1979), British actor
- Andrew R. Potts (1853-1932), American politician
- Andy Potts (born 1976), American athlete
- 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 (footballer) (1888–1981), English footballer
- Arthur Potts (politician), Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Beaches—East York in Toronto.
- 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 Potts, Jr. (1794–1863), United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
- David M. Potts (1906–1976), United States Congressman from New York
- Ebinabo Potts-Johnson (born 1988), first-runner-up in Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2007
- Edward Potts (architect) (1839–1909), British architect
- Edward Potts (gymnast) (1881–1944), British gymnast
- 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 manager
- 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 (cricketer) (born 1960), British cricketer
- John Potts (footballer) (born 1904), British footballer
- John Potts (Pennsylvanian), founder of Pottstown and Pottsgrove in Pennsylvania
- John Potts (UK politician) (1861–1938), 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 (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 (1930-2014), 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
Places
- Black Potts Ait, island in the River Thames in England
- Mount Potts, a skiing base in South Island, New Zealand
- Potts Camp, Mississippi, United States
- Potts, Nevada, a ghost town in the United States
- Potts Creek, Virginia, United States
- Potts Hill, New South Wales a suburb in south-western Sydney, Australia
- Potts Point, New South Wales, a suburb of inner Sydney, 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
Works of 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
See also
- Pott (surname)
- Pottery pots
- POTS (disambiguation), various uses
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