Whitney

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Whitney
Gender:	Both Female and Male
Origin:	Old English
Meaning:	Male/Female:"White water"and "Beautiful"

Contents 1 People 1.1 Family name 1.2 Given name 2 Places 3 Organizations 4 Events 5 Music 6 Mathematics 7 Other

[edit] People

[edit] Family name

• Whitney (surname)

[edit] Given name

• Whitney Hedgepeth, an American backstroke swimmer who won two silver medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Whitney Houston, an American singer
  • Whitney (album), her second studio album
• Whitney Thompson, an American model
• Whitney Willard Straight, Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman
• Whitney Young, prominent civil rights leader

[edit] Places

Canada

• Whitney, Ontario

United States

• Whitney, Idaho
• Whitney, Maine
• Whitney, Nebraska
• Whitney, Nevada
• Whitney, Oregon
• Whitney, Texas
• Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the continental United States
• Whitney High School (Cerritos, California)

UK

• Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire
• Witney, Oxfordshire

WHITNEY (from gowanda)

[edit] Organizations

• J.H. Whitney & Company, the oldest venture capital firm in the U.S.
• Pratt & Whitney, aircraft engine maker
• Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City
• Whitney National Bank, which has branches in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida
• Whitney (Pokémon), a Gym Leader in the Pokémon series

[edit] Events

• Whitney Biennial, a biennial art exhibition

[edit] Music

• Whitney (album), by American singer Whitney Houston

[edit] Mathematics

• Whitney umbrella in mathematics

[edit] Other

• Whitney South Seas Expedition, scientific expedition to the South Pacific (1920-1932)