Mather (surname)

Mather or Mathers is a Scottish surname, first documented in Kincardineshire, Scotland. and may refer to:

People

 * Alonzo C. Mather (1848–1941), president of the Mather Stock Car Company
 * Barrie-Jon Mather (born 1973), Great Britain and England international rugby league and rugby union player
 * Barry Mather (1909–1982), Canadian journalist
 * Bruce Mather (born 1939), Canadian composer
 * Cameron Mather (born 1973), Scottish international rugby union player
 * Carol Mather (1919–2006), British Army officer and Conservative Member of Parliament
 * Cotton Mather (1663–1728), Puritan minister
 * David Mather (cricketer) (born 1975), English cricketer
 * Elizabeth Mather (1815–1882), American writer
 * Evan Mather (born 1970), American landscape architect, urban designer and filmmaker
 * Fred Mather (1833–1900), United States pisciculturist
 * Frederic Gregory Mather (1844–1925), United States journalist
 * Frank Jewett Mather (1868–1953), American art critic
 * George R. Mather (1911–1993), American four-star general
 * Hiram F. Mather (1796–1868), New York politician
 * Increase Mather (1639–1723), Puritan minister
 * James Mather (politician) (1750–1821), Mayor of New Orleans
 * Jim Mather (born 1947), Scottish politician
 * Joe Mather (born 1982), American baseball player
 * John Mather (disambiguation), several people
 * Keir Mather (born 1998), British politician
 * Kenneth Mather (1911–1990), British geneticist
 * Kevin Mather, American baseball executive and accountant
 * Kevin Mather (archer) (born 1982), American archer and skier
 * Kirtley F. Mather (1888–1978), American geologist
 * Margrethe Mather (1886–1939), American photographer and painter
 * Melissa Mather, Australian physicist
 * Moses Mather (1719–1806), Connecticut clergyman
 * Mysterious Dave Mather (1851–unknown), American gunfighter
 * Patricia Mather (1925–2012), Australian zoologist
 * Percy C. Mather (1884–1933), British missionary to China
 * Richard Mather (1596–1669), American Congregational clergyman
 * Richard B. Mather (1913–2014), American Sinologist
 * Richard Henry Mather (1835–1890), American professor of Greek at Amherst College
 * Ronald Mather (1927–2011), English rugby league footballer of the 1950s for Lancashire, and Wigan
 * Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), British occultist
 * Stephen Mather (1867–1930), American industrialist, conservationist, and first director of the National Park Service
 * Weslyn Mather (1945–2015), Canadian politician
 * William G. Mather (1857–1951), head of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
 * William Williams Mather (1804–1859), United States geologist

Fictional characters

 * Lowell Mather, sitcom character