Holder (surname)

Holder is a surname.

Notable people with the surname include:

Politics and government

 * Eric H. Holder, Jr. (born 1951), United States Attorney General from 2009 to 2015
 * Frederick Holder (1850–1909), South Australia politician
 * Janice M. Holder (born 1949), American jurist
 * Trevor Holder (born 1973), Canadian politician

Military and naval

 * Burton Allen Holder (1843–1920), Chickasaw Indian, Confederate officer in the American Civil War
 * Randolph M. Holder (1918–1942), American naval aviator

Entertainment

 * Albrecht Holder, (born 1958), a German classical bassoonist
 * Boscoe Holder (1921–2007), Trinidadian dancer, choreographer and painter
 * Christian Holder (born 1949), British-Trinidadian dancer and choreographer
 * Geoffrey Holder (1930–2014), Trinidadian-American character actor, choreographer and dancer
 * Joseph William Holder (1764–1832), English composer
 * Meagan Holder, American actress
 * Noddy Holder (born 1946), English musician and actor
 * Roy Holder (1946–2021), English television actor

Academics and literature

 * Alfred Holder (1840–1916), Austrian-German classicist
 * Colleen Holder, Trinidad and Tobago news presenter and producer
 * Michelle Holder, American economist
 * Nancy Holder, American writer
 * William Holder (1616–1698), English music theorist

Religion

 * Christopher Holder (c. 1631–1688), Anglo-American Quaker minister

Science and technology

 * Charles Frederick Holder (1851–1915), American naturalist, science writer, and sport fisherman
 * Joseph Bassett Holder (1824–1888), American zoologist and physician
 * Livingston L. Holder, Jr., an executive with a private spaceflight company
 * Otto Hölder (1859–1937), German mathematician

Sport

 * Adzil Holder (1931–2019), Barbadian cricketer
 * Alijah Holder (born 1996), American football player
 * Bob Holder (born 1931), Australian rodeo competitor
 * Chemar Holder (born 1998), Barbadian cricket player
 * Edward Holder (1908–1974), All Black
 * Jason Holder (born 1991), Barbadian and West Indies cricket player
 * John Holder (cricketer) (born 1945), cricketer and umpire
 * Kyle Holder (born 1994), American professional baseball player
 * Phil Holder (born 1952), English football manager and coach
 * Rieah Holder (born 1993), Barbadian netball player
 * Roland Holder (born 1967), West Indian cricketer
 * Tra Holder (born 1995), Thai-American Basketball player
 * Vanburn Holder (born 1945), West Indian cricketer
 * Will Holder (American football) (born 1975), American Arena Football League player

Fictional people

 * Alexander Holder, a character in The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Stephen Holder, a character on the American crime drama television series The Killing