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 (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.