Whittaker
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Whittaker is a surname and given name, and may refer to:
- Charles Evans Whittaker (1901–1973), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme court from 1957 to 1962
- Chris Whittaker, Australian rugby player
- David Whittaker (born 1957), computer game programmer
- E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956), English mathematician
- Gavin Whittaker, Canadian politician
- Jack Whittaker (Canadian politician), Canadian politician
- Jack Whittaker (lottery winner) (born 1947), American US$315 million lottery winner
- Jim Whittaker (born 1929), American mountaineer, first American to summit Mount Everest (1963), twin brother of Lou
- John Whittaker (born 1945), British member of the European Parliament
- John Avery Whittaker, fictional character in the Adventures in Odyssey radio series
- Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, a 19th century West Point student and victim of assault.
- Lou Whittaker (born 1929), American mountaineer, high-altitude and glacier-travel guide, twin brother of Jim
- Maria Whittaker (born 1969), a topless model.
- Rebecca Whittaker, Canadian politician
- Robert Harding Whittaker (1920–1980), American vegetation ecologist
- Roger Whittaker (born 1936), British singer/songwriter and musician
- Sally Whittaker (born 1963), British soap opera actress
- Steven Whittaker (born 1984), British footballer
- Tom Whittaker (footballer) (1898–1956), English football player, trainer, and manager
- Tom Whittaker (mountaineer) (born 1949), mountaineer, first disabled person to summit Mount Everest
- Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), American writer, witness in Alger Hiss espionage case
[edit] See also
- Whittaker's, a chocolate candy concern.
- Whittaker and Watson, a mathematics book, A Course of Modern Analysis.
- Whittaker function, a mathematical function, the confluent hypergeometric function
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