Coulter (surname)
Coulter is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin.
Coulter most likely first originated as a toponymic surname in Scotland among people from areas around Coulter in South Lanarkshire or Maryculter and Peterculter in Aberdeenshire. The etymological origins of these place names may be from Scottish Gaelic cùl tir, meaning 'back land', or from a distortion of the Scots language Cootyre, meaning a safe place to store cows.
After the Plantation of Ulster when people with the surname migrated from Scotland to the northernmost province of Ireland, the Irish surname Uí Coltarain, meaning "descendants of Coltarain", appears to have been anglicised to Coulter. The Uí Coltarain were chiefs of the petty-kingdom of Dál Coirbin, in the over-kingdom of Ulaid.Notable people
- Allen Coulter, American director
- Ann Coulter, American author and conservative political commentator
- Ashley Coulter, Canadian singer
- Catherine Coulter, American novelist
- Cornelia C. Coulter, Professor of Latin at Mount Holyoke College
- David Coulter , director of Warburg Pincus
- David Coulter, Democratic Party politician and mayor of Ferndale, Michigan
- David Coulter , Church of Scotland minister and RAF chaplain
- David Coulter, Scottish martial artist
- Declan Coulter, Irish hurler
- Don Coulter, Canadian Banking President
- E. Merton Coulter, American historian
- Isaiah Coulter, American football player
- James Coulter, co-founder of private equity firm TPG Capital
- Joey Coulter, race car driver
- John Coulter, Australian politician
- John B. Coulter, American general during the Korean War
- John Merle Coulter, American botanist, brother of Stanley Coulter
- Joseph Coulter, Archdeacon
- Michael Coulter, Scottish cinematographer
- Phil Coulter, Irish musician
- Philip B. Coulter, American political scientist and professor emeritus of political science
- Richard Coulter, United States Congressman
- Richard Coulter, American Civil War general
- Ricki-Lee Coulter, Australian singer
- Robert Coulter, Northern Irish politician
- Shannon Coulter, founder of #GrabYourWallet consumers-vs-Trump group
- Stanley Coulter, American botanist, brother of John Merle Coulter
- Tex Coulter, Canadian football player
- Thomas Coulter, Irish physician, botanist, and explorer
- Wallace H. Coulter, American inventor and entrepreneur
- Walter Coulter, Scottish footballer
- William A. Coulter, American marine painter
Fictional characters:
- Marisa Coulter, character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
Places
- In Canada:
- *Coulterville, Ontario
- In the United Kingdom:
- *Coulter, South Lanarkshire
- In the United States:
- *Coulter, Iowa
- *Coulterville, California
- *Coulterville, Illinois
- *Coulterville, Pennsylvania
- *Coulterville, Sale Creek, Tennessee
- *Coulter Creek, Washington
