Holder (surname)

Holder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

In politics and government:

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

In military and naval:

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

In entertainment:

• Adrian Holder, English singer and songwriter
• Albrecht Holder, a German classical bassoonist
• Avis Holder (born 1989, Trinidad and Tobago), model/actress, Miss Trinidad and Tobago world contestant 2009
• Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014), 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 (born 1946), English television actor

In academics and literature:

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

In religion:

• Christopher Holder (born c. 1631), Anglo-American Quaker minister

In science and technology:

• Joseph Bassett Holder (1824–1888), American zoologist and physician
• Livingston L. Holder, Jr., an executive with a private spaceflight company
• Marion Holder, the first fatal automobile accident victim in Massachusetts (1904)
• Otto Hölder (1859–1937), German mathematician

In sports:

• Charles Frederick Holder (1851–1915), American sports fisherman and early 20th century author on fishing
• Edward Holder (1908–1974), All Black
• Phil Holder, English football manager and coach
• Roland Holder (born 1967), West Indian cricketer
• Vanburn Holder (born 1945), West Indian cricketer
• Will Holder (American football) (born 1975), American Arena Football League player

In fiction:

• 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.