title: Carothers
text: # Carothers
  
  Carothers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * A. J. Carothers (1931–2007), American playwright and television writer, worked with Walt Disney
  * Craig Carothers, American singer-songwriter
  * Dennis Carothers Stanfill, American business executive, Rhodes Scholar and philanthropist
  * Don Carothers (1934–2008), American football player
  * Earling Carothers Garrison (Jim) (1921–1992), District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973
  * Eleanor Carothers (1882–1957), American zoologist, geneticist, and cytologist
  * Isaac Carothers, former alderman of the 29th ward on the far west side of the City of Chicago
  * Robert Carothers (born 1942), served as the tenth president of the University of Rhode Island from 1991 to 2009
  * Thomas Carothers, international expert on international democracy support, democratization and U.S. foreign policy
  * Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), American chemist, inventor, the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon
  