title: Lotter (surname)
text: # 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)
  