Potts
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Potts is used as a surname and may refer to:
- Alistair Potts (born 1971), a British rower
- Andy Potts (born 1976), an athlete from the United States
- Annie Potts (born 1952), an American television and film actress
- Arnold Potts (Brigadier Arnold William Potts DSO OBE MC MID) (1896-1968), an Australian grazier who served in both World Wars
- Cameron Potts, a rock and roll musician based in Melbourne, Australia
- Caractacus Potts, fictional character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Carl Potts, American comic-book writer, artist and editor
- Clytie Potts, a fictional character in Philip Reeve's hungry city chronicles
- David Potts - English musician
- David M. Potts (1906-1976) - United States Congressman from New York
- David Potts, Jr. (1794-1863) - United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Frederick William Owen Potts, English soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the first World War
- Geoffrey Potts, cognitive psychologist and professor in Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States
- Harry Potts (1920-1996), an English football player and manger
- Jerry Potts (c. 1840-1896), a Canadian Métis guide and interpreter
- Jonathan Potts, an actor whose career began in the late 1980s
- Lisa Potts, George Medal holder, teacher injured when paranoid schizophrenic attacked her class with a machete in 1996
- Dr Malcolm Potts, a physician and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Richard Potts (1753–1808), an American politician
- Richard Potts, an American Anthropologist
- Paul Potts an aspiring opera singer on Britain's Got Talent
- Russ Potts (H. Russell Potts Jr.) (born 1939), a Republican state senator in Virginia, United States
- Steve Potts, American jazz saxophonist
- Steven Potts, long-serving West Ham United footballer
- Thomas Henry Potts (1824-1888), British-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, entomologist, and botanist
Potts also names:
- Potts model, a model of interacting spins on a crystalline lattice
- The Potts, said to be the world's longest-running cartoon strip drawn by the same artist
- Potts Camp, Mississippi, a town in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States
- Potts Point, New South Wales, a small densely-populated suburb of inner Sydney, Australia

