# Mott

Mott is both an English surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:

## Surname
### B

* Basil Mott (1859–1938), British civil engineer
* Bitsy Mott (1918–2001), American baseball player

### C

* Charles Francis Mott (1877–1967), English physicist and educator
* Charles James Mott (1880–1918), British baritone
* Charles Stewart Mott (1875–1973), American businessman
* Charles T. Mott, architect in the United States
* Christopher Mott, American academic

### D

* Dan Mott (fl. 2000 – 2007), American actor
* Darren Mott, Baron Mott (born 1973), British politician

### E

* Edward John Mott (1893–1967), British soldier
* Elias Bertram Mott (1897–1961), American politician

### F

* Frank Luther Mott (1886–1964), American historian
* Frederick Walker Mott (1853–1926), British biochemist

### G

* Gershom Mott (1822–1884), American army officer
* Gordon Newell Mott (1812–1887), American Congressman from Nevada

### J

* James Mott (1788–1868), American Quaker leader, husband of Lucretia
* James Mott (New Jersey politician) (1739–1823), American Congressman from New Jersey
* James Wheaton Mott (1883–1945), American Congressman from Oregon
* Jamie Mott (born 1988/1989), Australian jockey
* Joe Mott (born 1956), American football player
* John De Mott (1790–1870), American Congressman from New York
* John Raleigh Mott (1865–1955), American YMCA leader
* Jordan Lawrence Mott (1799–c. 1870), American industrialist

### L

* Lawrence Mott (1881–1931), American novelist, grandson of Jordan L. Mott Jr.
* Lewis Freeman Mott (1863–1941), American academic
* Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), American Quaker leader, wife of James
* Luiz Mott (born 1946), Brazilian civil rights activist
* Luther W. Mott (1874–1923), American Congressman from New York

### M

* Marion Mott-McGrath (born 1940), Australian chess player
* Matthew Mott (born 1973), Australian cricketer
* Michael Mott (1930–2019), British-American author
* Mildred Mott Wedel (1912–1995), American scholar of Great Plains archaeology and ethnohistory
* Morris Mott (born 1946), Canadian ice hockey player

### N

* Nevill Francis Mott (1905–1996), British physicist

### P

* Peter De Mott (1947–2009), American peace activist

### R

* Richard Mott (politician) (1804–1888), American Congressman from Ohio
* Ricky Mott (born 1981), Australian AFL footballer
* Rodney Mott (fl. 1998 – 2007), American basketball referee
* Ruth Mott (1917–2012), British television cook

### S

* Shane Mott, Australian & Dutch Cricketer
* Stephen Charles Mott (born 1940), American academic
* Steve Mott (American football) (born 1961), American footballer
* Stewart Rawlings Mott (1937–2008), American philanthropist

### V

* Valentine Mott (1785–1865), American surgeon

### W

* William Albert Mott (1864–1911), Canadian politician from New Brunswick
* William I. Mott (born 1953), American horse trainer
* William Malcolm Mott (1894–1961), Canadian politician from British Columbia
* William Penn Mott Jr. (1909–1992), American landscape architect

## Given name or nickname

* Mott T. Greene, American historian of science and professor
* Mott B. Schmidt (1889–1977), American architect
* Morrison Waite (1816-1888), nicknamed "Mott", American attorney, politician and seventh Chief Justice of the United States

## Fictional characters

* Dandy Mott, antagonist of the television series American Horror Story: Freak Show, portrayed by Finn Wittrock
* Wilfred Mott, a recurring Doctor Who character
* Ernie Mott, protagonist of the 1944 film None but the Lonely Heart, played by Cary Grant
* Norman Mott, protagonist of Mott the Hoople, a 1966 novel by Willard Manus
* Mott, protagonist in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, first appearing in the story Sea Bonnies