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Potts Potts may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Doc Potts, animated pilot episode for failed television series * Tom Potts, Child ballad 109 * The Potts, said to be the world's longest-running cartoon strip drawn by the same artist Mathematics *Pott ...

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Aaron Pott Aaron Pott is a winemaker. Upon graduation from the University of California, Davis, he took a position at Newton Vineyard in Napa Valley. He left Newton for a position as winemaker at Château Troplong-Mondot, a Premier Grand Cru Classé in S ...

(born 1967), American winemaker *

Alfred Pott Alfred Pott (30 September 1822 – 28 February 1908) was an English churchman, Archdeacon of Berkshire from 1870 until 1902. Life Pott was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union. He was ordai ...

(1822–1908), British archdeacon *

Alida Jantina Pott Alida Jantina Pott (January 8, 1888, Groningen – December 23, 1931) was a Dutch visual artist and member of the Groninger art collective De Ploeg. Career Alida Pott was born in Groningen in 1888. She was the daughter of Pieter Hendrik Pott ...

(1888–1931), Dutch artist *

August Friedrich Pott August Friedrich Pott (14 November 1802 in Nettelrede, Electorate of Hanover, Hanover5 July 1887 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle) was a German pioneer in linguistics. Life Pott was a theology student at the University of Göttingen, where he be ...

(1802–1887), German linguist * Carol Pott (born 1964), American writer * Constance Mary Pott (1862–1957), English printmaker * Francis Pott (composer) (born 1957), British musician *

Francis Pott (hymnwriter) Francis Pott (29 December 1832 – 26 October 1909) was an English hymnwriter and Anglican priest. He is noted as the author or translator of a number of popular Christian hymns including "Angel Voices, Ever Singing" and "The Strife is O'er, th ...

(1832–1909), English Anglican priest and author of Christian hymns *

Francis Lister Hawks Pott Francis Lister Hawks Pott (; February 22, 1864 – March 7, 1947) was an American Episcopal missionary and educator in China. He served as President of St. John's College (later renamed St. John's University), one of China's oldest and most prest ...

(1864–1947), American educator * Fritz Pott (1939–2015), German footballer * George F. Pott Jr. (1943–2001), American politician * Gladys Pott (1867–1961), English anti-suffragist and civil servant * Herbert Pott (1883–1953), British Olympic diver *

Joel Pott Joel Laslett Pott (born 20 January 1979 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England) is an English musician. He was the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie band Athlete between 2000 and their split in 2013. In recent years he has served as a son ...

(born 1979), British musician *

Johann Heinrich Pott Johann Heinrich Pott (6 October 1692 – 29 March 1777) was a Prussian physician, chemist, and a glass and porcelain technologist. He is considered a pioneer of pyrochemistry. He examined the elements bismuth and manganese apart from attempting im ...

(1692–1777), Prussian physician and chemist *

John Pott John Pott (or Potts) was a physician and Colonial Governor of Virginia at the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony in the early 17th century. Biography Education John Potts is said to have taken his degree of M.A., at Oxford University ...

(died 1645), English doctor and politician *

Johnny Pott John Francis Pott (born November 6, 1935) is an American professional golfer. Pott was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and reared in southern Mississippi, where he learned to play golf on the course where his father was the club professional. H ...

(born 1935), American golfer * Joseph Pott (1759–1847), British Anglican archdeacon * Julia Pott (born 1985), British animator * Karel Pott (1904–1953), Portuguese Olympic sprinter * Lisa von Pott (1888–?), Austrian Nazi spy, sculptor and secretary to the poet Rabindranath Tagore * Nellie Pott (1899–1963), American baseball pitcher *

Percivall Pott Percivall Pott (6 January 1714, in London – 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps ...

(1714–1788), British surgeon *

Percivall Pott (politician) Henry Percivall Pott (29 March 1908 – 17 January 1964) was a British farmer, company director and politician. He concentrated in his political career on agricultural issues, and was a fairly low-profile backbench Member of Parliament for nine y ...

(1908–1964), British politician * Reginald H. Pott (1870–1957), British politician and stockbroker *

Reino Pott Reino Pott ''née'' Leendertz (2 January 1869 – 14 June 1965) was a Dutch-born South African botanist and chemist. She was the first woman to be appointed as a botanist in the civil service of the South African Republic, and greatly expanded t ...

(1869–1965), Dutch-born South African botanist and chemist *

Thomas Pott Thomas Pott or Potts was a Scottish Master Huntsman serving James VI and I, and Keeper of Temple Newsam manor and park near Leeds. At the Scottish court Pott appears in Scottish records as a huntsman serving James VI. He was sent to France with a ...

, 17th century Scottish servant to James VI and I

Fictional characters

Caractacus Pott Caractacus Pott (Caractacus Potts in the film adaptation) is one of the main characters in Ian Fleming's novel ''Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang'' and its Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, film adaptation. The film version of the story makes several changes to h ...

, in the Ian Fleming novel ''Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang'' * Jack Pott, in the comics ''Cor!!'' and ''Buster''

Fictional characters

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