Bitter (surname)

The surnames Bitter, de Bitter or Von Bitter may refer to:

  • Billy Bitter (born 1988), an American lacrosse player
  • Francis Bitter (1902–1967), an American physicist who invented the Bitter electromagnet, which uses circular metal plates instead of wire coils
  • Friedrich August Georg Bitter (1873–1927), a German botanist and lichenologist
  • Johannes Bitter (born 1982), a German team handball player
  • Karl Bitter (1867–1915), an Austrian-born United States sculptor
  • Karl Hermann Bitter (1813–1885), Prussian statesman
  • Kees Bitter [nl] (1919–1945), Dutch resistance fighter forced to collaborate with the German regime after his capture
  • Peter von Bitter (living), a German-born Canadian palaeontologist
  • Pieter de Bitter (ca. 1620–1666), a 17th-century Dutch officer of the Dutch East India Company
  • Susan Bitter Smith (living), an Arizona Republican politician
  • Theo Bitter (1916–1994), a Dutch graphic artist, painter and draftsman.

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