Mather (surname)

Mather is a surname, and may refer to

People

• Alonzo C. Mather (1848–1941), president of the Mather Stock Car Company
• Barry Mather (1909–1982), Canadian journalist
• Bruce Mather (born 1939), Canadian composer
• Carol Mather (1919–2006), British Army officer and Conservative Member of Parliament
• Cotton Mather (1663–1728), Puritan minister
• Emily Mather (born 1998), actress
• Evan Mather (born 1970), film maker
• Frank Jewett Mather (1868–1953), American art critic
• George R. Mather, American four-star general
• Hiram F. Mather (1796-1868), New York politician
• Increase Mather (1639–1723), Puritan minister
• James Mather (1750–1821), Mayor of New Orleans
• Jim Mather (born 1947), Scottish politician
• Jim Mather (Kyoshi) (born 1942), Karate Master
• John Mather (disambiguation), several people
  • John Mather (artist), Australian landscape painter
  • John Mather (academic), English academic administrator at the University of Oxford
  • John Mather (businessman), Canadian pioneer in milling
  • John Mather (mathematician) (b. 1942), American mathematician
  • John B Mather, Canadian businessman and politician
  • John C. Mather (b. 1946), American Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist and cosmologist
  • John C. Mather (New York) (1813-1882), American politician
  • John T. Mather, American industrialist and philanthropist
• Kenneth Mather (1911–1990), British geneticist
• Kirtley F. Mather (1888–1978), American geologist
• Margrethe Mather (1886–1939), American photographer and painter
• Mysterious Dave Mather (born 1851), gunfighter
• Percy C. Mather (1884–1933), British missionary to China
• Richard Mather (1596–1669), American Congregational clergyman
• Stephen Mather (1867–1930), American industrialist, conservationist, and first director of the National Park Service
• William G. Mather (1857–1951), head of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company

Fictional characters

• Lowell Mather, sitcom character