Whiting
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Whiting is the name of several species of fish:
- Merlangius merlangus, the original species to receive the name; a common food fish of the cod family found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean around Europe and the Mediterranean regions
- Whiting (fish) (disambiguation), various other fish species in North America, Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific region
Whiting may also refer to:
- Powdered and washed white chalk (calcium carbonate), used in putty, metal polish, whitewash and sometimes added to paint to improve the paint's opacity
[edit] Places
In the United States of America:
- Whiting, Indiana
- Whiting, Iowa
- Whiting, Kansas
- Whiting, Maine
- Whiting, Missouri
- Whiting, New Jersey
- Whiting, Vermont
- Whiting, Wisconsin
[edit] Surname
According to the 1990 U.S. Census, Whiting is the 2565th most popular surname in the United States, carried by 0.005% of the population.
- Charlie Whiting, FIA Formula One race director
- Danny Whiting, fictional character in BBC soap opera EastEnders
- E.M. Whiting, captain of the USS Massachusetts (BB-54) in the 1920s
- John Whiting (1917-1963), John Robert Whiting, English dramatist and critic
- Justin Rice Whiting (1847-1903), Michigan politician
- Leonard Whiting (b. 1950), British actor
- Margaret Whiting (b. 1924), traditional pop music singer, daughter of Richard A. Whiting
- Margaret Whiting (actress), British actress
- Napoleon Whiting (1910-1984), African-American character actor
- Nathan Whiting (1724-1771), soldier and merchant in colonial America
- Richard Whiting (1500s), last abbot of Glastonbury Abbey before Dissolution of the Monasteries - see Little Jack Horner
- Richard A. Whiting (1891-1938), writer of popular songs, father of Margaret Whiting and Barbara Whiting Smith
- Roy William Whiting (b. 1959), car mechanic and murderer: see Murder of Sarah Payne
- William Whiting (1825 – 1878), English writer and hymnist, wrote the words to "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" (The Navy Hymn)
- William Whiting (politician) (1813-1873), Massachusetts
- William Whiting II (politician) (1841-1911), Massachusetts
- William F. Whiting (1864-1936), William Fairfield Whiting, Massachusetts politician
- William H. C. Whiting (1824-1865), William Henry Chase Whiting, American Civil War army officers
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