Pickering
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Pickering may refer to:
[edit] Places
- Pickering, North Yorkshire, England
- Pickering, Ontario, Canada
- Pickering Brook, Western Australia, Australia
[edit] People
Individuals with Pickering as a surname:
- Adrienne Pickering (1981-present), Australian actress
- Andrew Pickering, sociologist and science historian
- Calvin Pickering (1976-present), American baseball player
- Charles Pickering (naturalist) (1805–1878), physician and naturalist
- Charles W. Pickering (1937-present), Appeals Court judge
- Charlie Pickering (1977-present), Australian comedian
- Charles W. "Chip" Pickering (born 1963), the judge's son and US Representative from Mississippi
- Chris Pickering, Australian alt.country musician
- Donald Pickering (1933-present), English actor
- Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer
- Fred Pickering
- Frederick Brian Pickering, British metallurgist
- Sir James Pickering, British politician of the fourteenth century
- John Pickering (1737-1805), American judge
- John Pickering (football manager), English football manager
- Karen Pickering (1971-present), champion British swimmer
- Keith Pickering (1955-present), scientist and historian
- Larry Pickering (1942-present), Australian political cartoonist
- Liam Pickering (1968-present), Australian Rules footballer
- Lionel Pickering (1932-2006), English owner of Derby County football club
- Nick Pickering (1963-present), English footballer
- Spencer U. Pickering, (1858–1920) a physical chemist
- Samuel F. Pickering Jr., an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society
- Blessed Thomas Pickering (1621–1679), English Benedictine lay brother and martyr
- Thomas J. Pickering, American politician
- Thomas R. Pickering, American politician
- Thomas Pickering (dates unknown), American Revolutionary War soldier and founder of the Newburgh Plan
- Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States
- William Hayward Pickering (1910–2004), Rocket Man, former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), astronomer
- William Pickering (Singapore), first Protector appointed by the British administration of colonial Singapore to head the Chinese Protectorate
- William Pickering (governor) (1798-1873), English-born American politician
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