A potter is someone who makes

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and po ...

. Potter may also refer to:

Places

United States

*Potter, originally a section on the

Alaska Railroad Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

, currently a neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska, US *

Potter, Arkansas Potter (also Old Potter, Rust) is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east ...

Potter, Nebraska Potter is a village in Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 337. History Potter got its start in the year 1870, following construction of the railroad through the territory. It was named for ...

Potters, New Jersey Potters was an unincorporated community and now is neighborhood located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In the northern part of the township, Potters was once known as Potters Crossing, and may hav ...

Potter, New York Potter is a town in Yates County, New York, United States. The Town of Potter is located in the northwest part of the county and is south of Canandaigua. The population was 1,865 at the 2010 census. History Stafford C. Cleveland's ''Histo ...

Potter, Wisconsin Potter is a village in Calumet County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 253 at the 2010 census. History Potter was established near a Native American village along the Manitowoc River. It was originally named Muskratville becaus ...

Potter County, Pennsylvania Potter County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, its population was 16,396, making it the fifth-least populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Coudersport. The county was created in 1804 and lat ...

Potter County, South Dakota Potter County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,472. Its county seat is Gettysburg. The county was created in 1873 and organized in 1883. Geography The Missouri River flows southward a ...

Potter County, Texas Potter County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, its population was 118,525. Its county seat is Amarillo, Texas, Amarillo. The county was created in 1876 and ...

* Potter Lake, Wisconsin *

Potter Township (disambiguation) Potter Township may refer to: * Potter Township, Polk County, Arkansas, in Polk County, Arkansas * Potter Township, Barnes County, North Dakota * Potter Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania * Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania Pott ...

Potter Valley, California Potter Valley is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located north-northeast of Ukiah, at an elevation of at the headwaters of the East Fork Russian River. The CDP population was 665 at the 2020 cen ...

Potter Valley AVA The Potter Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in northern Mendocino County, California centered on town of Potter Valley. The appellation is found east of the Redwood Valley AVA and has an elevation of around higher than surrou ...

, California wine region in Mendocino County

Elsewhere

7320 Potter 73 may refer to: * 73 (number) * one of the years 73 BC, AD 73, 1973, 2073 * ''73'' (magazine), a United States-based amateur radio magazine * 73 Best regards, a popular Morse code abbreviation * ''No. 73'', a British 1980s children's TV show * ...

, an asteroid *

Potter Island Potter Island is an uninhabited island located in the Arctic Archipelago within the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. It is a Baffin Island offshore island situated in Frobisher Bay. It is north of Lower Savage Islands The Lower Savage Islands ar ...

, Nunavut, Canada *

Potter Peninsula Potter Peninsula is a low ice-free peninsula between Potter Cove and Stranger Point in south-west King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It is protected as ASPA 132, largely because of the richness and diversity of it ...

, South Shetland Islands

People and fictional characters

Potter (name) Potter is an English surname that originally referred to someone who made pottery. It is occasionally used as a given name. People with the name include: Surname *Albert Potter (1897–1942), English footballer *Alexandra Potter (born 1970), Briti ...

, a given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Potter'' (TV series), a TV sitcom starring Arthur Lowe *

Harry and the Potters Harry and the Potters are an American rock band known for spawning the genre of wizard rock. Founded in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 2002, the group is primarily composed of brothers Joe and Paul DeGeorge, who both perform under the persona of t ...

, an American rock band *

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students a ...

, worldwide bestselling book and film series *

Miss Potter ''Miss Potter'' is a 2006 biographical drama film directed by Chris Noonan. It is based on the life of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, and combines stories from her own life with animated sequences featuring characters from her ...

The Potters (artists group) The Potters was an informal group of American female artists in St. Louis, Missouri, who printed their original art, poetry and prose in ''The Potter's Wheel'', a monthly artistic and literary magazine produced from November 1904 to October 1907. ...

, a women's artistic and literary group in St. Louis, Missouri * ''The Potters'' (film), a lost 1927 silent film

Sports

Stoke City F.C Stoke City Football Club is a professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which competes in the . Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, it changed its name to Stoke in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925 after Sto ...

or The Potters, an English football club *

Stoke Potters The Stoke Potters previously the Hanley Potters were a British speedway team competing in the National League. As Stoke, the team raced at Loomer Road Stadium in Newcastle-under-Lyme. As Hanley Potters they raced from 1929 to 1963. History ...

, an English speedway team *The Potters, the sports teams of

East Liverpool High School East Liverpool Junior/Senior High School is a public high school in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States. It is the only secondary school in the East Liverpool City School District, serving the city and surrounding Glenmoor, La Croft and Liverp ...

, Ohio

Vessels

*'' T. J. Potter'', a steamboat * USS ''Stephen Potter'' (DD-538), a naval destroyer

Other uses

*"Potter", the codename of Motorola's

Moto G5 Moto G5 (stylized as moto g5) is a series of Android smartphones developed by Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Lenovo. It is the fifth generation of the Moto G family. Announced as successors to the Moto G4, they were first released in Marc ...

Plus smartphone *

Potter Box The Potter Box is a model for making ethical decisions, developed by Ralph B. Potter, Jr., professor of social ethics emeritus at Harvard Divinity School. It is commonly used by communication ethics scholars. According to this model, moral thinkin ...

, a model for making ethical decisions *

Potter sequence Potter sequence is the atypical physical appearance of a baby due to oligohydramnios experienced when in the uterus. It includes clubbed feet, pulmonary hypoplasia and cranial anomalies related to the oligohydramnios. Oligohydramnios is the decrea ...

, a birth defect *

Potter's field A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or indigent people. "Potter's field" is of Biblical origin, referring to Akeldama (meaning ''field of blood'' in Aramaic), stated to have been pu ...

, a place for the burial of unknown people {{disambiguation, geo