Trotter can mean a number of things:

• trotter, a horse trained for harness racing
• trotter, the feet of a goat, pig, lamb, or any cattle
• The Trotters, the nickname of English football team Bolton Wanderers F.C.
• Trotter, a type of penny loafer sold by the Penobscot Shoe Company

People with the surname Trotter

• Alessandro Trotter, Italian naturalist known by the botanical author abbreviation "Trotter"
• DeeDee Trotter, an African American track and field athlete
• James F. Trotter, an American politician
• Jimmy Wayne Trotter, portrait and landscape painter from Guntersville, Alabama
• Dame Janet Trotter, vice-chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire
• Jeremiah Trotter, an African American football player
• Joe Trotter, American Actor and Comedian
• Sir Neville Trotter, British conservative politician
• Thomas Trotter, musician
• Thomas Trotter (physician)
• Steve Trotter, daredevil stuntman
• William Monroe Trotter, an African-American newspaper editor and protest leader
• William R. Trotter, an American writer
• Wilfred Trotter, Pioneer surgeon, social psychologist, writer famous for 'The Instinct of the Herd in Peace and War'

Fictional characters named Trotter

• Trotter, early name of Aragorn, a character of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Barry Trotter, main character of three parodies of the "Harry Potter" series, written by Michael Gerber
• Tilly Trotter, heroine of a trilogy by Catherine Cookson
• The fictional Trotter family from the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses
  • Derek Trotter
  • Rodney Trotter

James Henry Trotter, Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach