Kitts (surname)

Kitts is an English surname. It is also an anglicized version of the German surname Götz.[1] Notable people with the surname include:

  • Derrick Kitts (born c. 1973), Republican politician from Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon
  • Frank Kitts (1912–1979), Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Isaac Kitts (1896–1953), American horse rider
  • James Kitts (1900–1952), American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach
  • Jim Kitts (born 1972), former American football running back
  • Miles Brown Kitts (1880–1947), Republican mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Wesley Kitts (born 1990), American weightlifter, Olympian
  • Willard A. Kitts (1894-1964) United States Navy admiral
  1. ^ "John Kitts (ca. 1730-1802): Newly Discovered Founder of the East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia Kitts Families." Tennessee Ancestors. vol. 16, no. 2 (Aug. 2000), pp. 97-98. See footnote number 4 of the article.