Atwater may refer to:

Places

  • Atwater, California, a city in Merced County, California
  • Atwater Village, Los Angeles, a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California
  • Atwater, Georgia
  • Atwater, Illinois
  • Atwater, Minnesota
  • Atwater Township, Portage County, Ohio
  • Atwater (CDP), Ohio, a census-designated place in the township
  • Atwater, Saskatchewan, a village in Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Atwater, Wisconsin

People with the surname

  • Ann Atwater (1935–2016), American civil rights activist
  • Barry Atwater (1918–1978), American actor
  • Caleb Atwater (1778–1867), American politician, historian, and early archaeologist
  • Dorence Atwater (1845–1910), American civil war soldier known for keeping the "Atwater List" of Union fatalities
  • Edwin Atwater (1808–1874), municipal alderman in Montreal for the district of Saint-Antoine
  • Harry Atwater (born 1960), professor of physics at California Institute of Technology
  • Helen W. Atwater (1876–1947), American author, home economist and editor
  • Isaac Atwater (1818–1906), American jurist
  • James E. Atwater (born 1946), American/Canadian multidisciplinary physical scientist and Wright Brothers medalist
  • Jeff Atwater (born 1958), American politician
  • Jeremiah Atwater (1773–1858), American educator, minister, and President of Middlebury College
  • John Atwater (died 1499), Irish politician
  • Lee Atwater (1951–1991), American Republican political strategist
  • Mary Meigs Atwater (1878-1956), American handweaver, author, founder of the Shuttle-craft Guild
  • Montgomery Atwater (1904-1976), Author, avalanche control expert, Skiing Hall of Fame inductee
  • Reuben Atwater (1768–1831), American politician
  • Richard M. Atwater (1844–1922), American chemist
  • Richard and Florence Atwater (1892–1948; 1899–1979), authors of the children's book Mr. Popper's Penguins
  • Steve Atwater (born 1966), former Denver Broncos and New York Jets Free Safety
  • Tanya Atwater (born 1942), professor of geological sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara who specializes in plate tectonics
  • Tony Atwater, president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844–1907), American developer of the respiration calorimeter
  • William Atwater (curator) (born 1945), Director of the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum in Maryland

Other

  • Atwater (Montreal Metro), a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro
  • Atwater Avenue, a street in Montreal
  • Atwater Library of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal, an independent library in Montreal operated by the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal
  • Atwater Market, a public market in Montreal
  • Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, a United States Supreme Court case
  • United States Penitentiary, Atwater, a prison near Atwater, California
  • The Atwater system for calculating the energy content of food (named after Wilbur Olin Atwater)

See also

  • Attwater, a surname