Meaning of Last Name

Mather is a surname, and may refer to * Alonzo C. Mather (1848–1941), president of the Mather Stock Car Company * Barry Mather (1909–1982), Canadian journalist * Bruce Mather (born 1939), Canadian composer * Carol Mather (1919–2006), British Army officer and Conservative MP * Cotton Mather (1663–1728), Puritan minister * Emily Mather (born 1998), actress * Evan Mather (born 1970), film maker * Frank Jewett Mather (1868–1953), American art critic * George R. Mather, American four-star general * Mysterious Dave Mather (born 1851, year of death unknown), gunfighter * Increase Mather (1639–1723), Puritan minister * James Mather (1750–1821), mayor of New Orleans * Jim Mather (Kyoshi) (born 1942), Karate Master * Jim Mather (born 1947), Scottish politician * John C. Mather (born 1946), American astrophysicist and cosmologist * John Mather (born 1942), mathematician * Kenneth Mather (1911–1990), British geneticist * Kirtley F. Mather (1888–1978), American geologist * Lowell Mather, sitcom character * Margrethe Mather (1886–1939), American prostitute, photographer and painter * Percy C. Mather (1884–1933), British missionary to China * Richard Mather (1596–1669), American Congregational clergyman * Ronald Mather , mayor of Knaresborough * Stephen Mather (1867–1930), American industrialist, conservationist, and first director of the National Park Service * William G. Mather (1857–1951), head of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (1890–1940)