A potter is someone who makes

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a ''potter'' is al ...

. Potter may also refer to:

Places

United States

*Potter, originally a section on the

Alaska Railroad The Alaska Railroad is a Class II railroad that operates freight and passenger trains in the state of Alaska. The railroad's mainline runs between Seward, Alaska, Seward on the southern coast and Fairbanks, Alaska, Fairbanks, near the center of ...

, currently a neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska, US *

Potter, Arkansas Potter (also New Potter, Rust) is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee an ...

* Potter, Nebraska *

Potters, New Jersey Potters was an unincorporated community and is now a neighborhood 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 have been ...

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 244 at the 2020 census. History Potter was established near a Native American village along the Manitowoc River. It was originally named Muskratville beca ...

Potter County, Pennsylvania Potter County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 16,396, making it the fifth-least populous county in Pennsylv ...

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 located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 118,525. Its county seat is Amarillo. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1887. It is named for Robert Potter, a politician ...

* Potter Lake, Wisconsin *

Potter Township (disambiguation) Potter Township may refer to: * Potter Township, Polk County, Arkansas, in Polk County, Arkansas Polk County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the pop ...

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 ce ...

** Potter Valley AVA, California wine region in Mendocino County * Potter Cemetery, Michigan

Elsewhere

* 7320 Potter, an asteroid * Potter Island, 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), Brit ...

, 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, Norwood, Massachusetts, in 2002, the group is primarily composed of brothers Joe and Paul DeGeorge, both of whom ...

, an American rock band * ''Harry Potter'', worldwide bestselling book and film series * ''Miss Potter'', a 2006 film by Chris Noonan *

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. T ...

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

Sports

* Stoke City F.C or The Potters, an English football club *

Stoke Potters The Stoke Potters previously the Hanley Potters were a British speedway team. As Hanley Potters they raced at the Sun Street Stadium from 1929 to 1963 and as Stoke, the team raced at Loomer Road Stadium in Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1973 to ...

, 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 Liver ...

, Ohio

Vessels

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

Other uses

*"Potter", the codename of Motorola's

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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 think ...

, a model for making ethical decisions *

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 pur ...

, a place for the burial of unknown people *

Potter Instrument Potter Instrument Company was a public American computer hardware company active from 1942 to the late 1970s and based in Long Island. It was founded by John Taft Potter (1911–1987), an inventor of electronic instruments and magnetic computer st ...

, a defunct American computer company *

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 decr ...

, a birth defect {{disambiguation, geo