Famous People with Name Potter

Carol Potter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carol Potter: is an American actress best known for playing Cindy Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. She was a regular on the show from 1990 to 1995. She has also guest starred on many shows including NYPD Blue, JAG, Crossing Jordan and Providence.

Barbara Potter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Potter: is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, winning six singles titles and eight doubles titles.A left-hander, she reached the semifinals at the U.S. Open in 1981, and the quarterfinals at the Australian Open in 1984, and Wimbledon in 1985, 1983 & 1982. At the WTA Tour Championships, she reached the semifinals in singles in 1984 and in doubles in 1985 and 1982. She reached a career high ranking of #7 in 1982. She retired from the sport in 1989, with her last singles title coming at Cincinnati.

Henry Codman Potter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Codman Potter: was a bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.Henry Codman Potter was born the son of another Episcopal bishop, The Right Rev'd Alonzo Potter, in Schenectady, New York in 1835. He was educated at the Philadelphia Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church and Virginia Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1857. He was ordained deacon in 1857 and priest in 1858; was rector of Christ Church, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1858-1859, and of St John's Church, Troy, NY, in 1859-1866; refused the presidency of Kenyon College in 1863 and the bishopric of Iowa in 1875; was secretary of the House of Bishops in 1866-1883; and was assistant rector of Trinity Church, Boston, in 1866-1868, and rector of Grace Church,

Fuller Potter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fuller Potter: was an American Abstract expressionist artist. He was born in New York City in 1910, attended St. Bernard's School in New York and Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts, and lived most of his life in his Ledyard, Connecticut estate, near Old Mystic. Potter started painting in the traditional modes of representation, specializing in still life and landscape. His work was shown in New York in the 1930s at the Marie Harriman Gallery (Inside NYTimes.com, May 19, 1990)

Dean Potter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dean Potter: is an American free climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, BASEliner, and highliner. He has become noted for many free solo ascents, speed ascents and enchainments in Yosemite. Potter is now infamous for climbing Delicate Arch, for which he lost his sponsorship