Lotter (surname)
# Lotter (surname)

Lötter was the last name of a family of German printers, intimately connected with the Reformation.

The surname may also refer to:

* Melchior Lotter (born 15th century), German printer and founder of Lotter family
* Hieronymus Lotter (1497–1580), Renaissance builder and architect (see Augustusburg Hunting Lodge and Moritzbastei) who lived and died in Geyer, Germany, and former mayor of Leipzig, Germany
* Eberhardine Christiane Lotter (born Kinckelin), Adventurous traveler (see K.Beiergrosslein and J.Lotterer 2019) who traveled from Herrenberg (South Germany) to Charlestown on her own in 1786 and authored a diary of her travels.
* Tobias Conrad Lotter (circa 18th century), master engraver and son-in-law of German map publisher Matthäus Seutter
* Hans Lotter (1917–2008), highly decorated Oberleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II
* Marius Lotter (born 1963), founder of Gaswise the first computerized fuel pump management system running on the AT computer Marthinus J Lotter
* Shelley Lotter, co-founder of the Yale University Redhot & Blue (musical group) in 1977
* Markus Lotter (born 1970), German football coach and a former player
* Madelein Lotter (born 1971), former South Africa cricketer
* John Lotter (born 1971), American convicted murderer and character in the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry
* Bebe Lotter, fictional character played by Donna Mills in the 1972 television film Rolling Man
* Gert Lotter (born 1993), Namibian cricketer and rugby union player
* Albert Lotter, editor of Wrapped magazine
* Johann Lotter, violinist on the albums Victoria Day (2009) and The Waiting (2010)
* Sabina Lotter (1620–1676), wife of Johannes Koch von Gailenbach
* Matthias Lötter (1696-1752), master Gold- and Silversmith at the Cape from Augsburg
* Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777), was an engraver, cartographer and publisher in Augsburg.
* Johannes Lötter, (born 1875) a Boer commandant in the Boer War

## Other

* Lotter P.Edwin Edin, contestant on the Malaysian reality television show Akademi Fantasia
* Odd lotter, an investor who purchases shares or other securities in small or unusual quantities (lots)
