Pendleton
Pendleton is a place name and a surname of English and Irish origin and may refer to:
Places
- United States
- Pendleton, Indiana
- Pendleton, Missouri
- Pendleton, New York
- Pendleton, Oregon
- Pendleton, South Carolina
- Pendleton County, Kentucky
- Pendleton, Texas
- Pendleton County, West Virginia
- Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California
- Pendleton, Cincinnati, Ohio, a neighborhood
- United Kingdom
Persons
Given Name
- Pendleton Murrah (1824–1865), American politician, governor of Texas during the American Civil War
- Pendleton Ward (born 1982), American animator, musician, screenwriter, and producer
Surname
- Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton (1840-1864), Confederate staff officer serving Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson
- Austin Pendleton, (born 1940), American film, television, and stage actor
- Brian Pendleton (1944-2001), guitarist with British group The Pretty Things in the 1960s
- Charles F. Pendleton (1931-1953), soldier, Medal of Honor recipient in US Army during the Korean War
- Chris Pendleton (born 1982), American amateur wrestler, winner of the NCAA Division I wrestling titles in 2004 and 2005
- Don Pendleton (1927–1995), American author, creator of the Mack Bolan character
- Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), American politician, lawyer, and judge, delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia
- Edmund Henry Pendleton (1788-1862), U.S. Representative from New York
- Edmund J. Pendleton (1899-1987), American composer.
- Edmund W. Pendleton American research and development engineer, commercial pilot, and flight instructor
- Ellen Fitz Pendleton (1864–1936), American college president
- Florence Pendleton (c. 1926- ), former shadow senator from the District of Columbia
- Freddie Pendleton (1963- ), retired professional boxer
- George Cassety Pendleton (1845-1913), Democratic politician, Texas State Representative and Speaker, TX Lieutenant Governor, and U.S. Representative
- George H. Pendleton (1825–1889), American politician, senator from Ohio, eponym of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
- Henry Pendleton (c. 1521-1557), English churchman, theologian
- Jack J. Pendleton (1918–1944), US Army soldier and WWII Medal of Honor recipient
- James "Jim" Edward Pendleton (1924—1996), American professional baseball player
- James Madison Pendleton (1811-1891), 19th century Baptist preacher, educator and theologian
- James Monroe Pendleton (1822-1889), U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
- Joey Pendleton Democratic member and Minority Whip of the Kentucky Senate
- John Pendleton, Jr. (1749–1806), acting Governor of Virginia in 1799
- John Overton Pendleton (1851–1916), U.S. Representative from West Virginia
- John Strother Pendleton (1802–1868), nineteenth century Virginia congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer
- Joseph Henry Pendleton (1860–1942), American Marine Corps general, eponym of Camp Pendleton
- Karen Pendleton (1946- ), an original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer
- Lance Michael Pendleton (1983- ), American professional baseball player
- Linwood Pendleton (1964- ), American environmental economist, Acting Chief Economist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
- Louis Christopher Pendleton (1931-2007), African American dentist, businessman, and civil rights leader
- Moses Pendleton (1949- ), choreographer, dancer and artistic director of dance company MOMIX
- Nat Pendleton (1895–1967), American Olympic wrestler and film actor
- Nathanael Pendleton (1756-1821), US lawyer and judge during the American Revolutionary War and afterward
- Nathanael G. Pendleton (1793–1861), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- Philip Clayton Pendleton (1779–1863), US federal judge in Virginia
- Randy Pendleton (1937-2009), businessman, lobbyist, Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives
- Sandie Pendleton (1840-1864), Confederate staff officer serving Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson
- Steve Pendleton (1908–1984), American film actor.
- Terry Pendleton (born 1960), American professional baseball player 1984–1998
- Victoria Pendleton (born 1980), English track cyclist
- William Frederic Pendleton (1845-1927), first Executive Bishop of General Church of the New Jerusalem
- William N. Pendleton (1809–1883), American teacher, Episcopal priest, and Confederate general
- William W. Pendleton former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Other
- Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, 1883 law of the US Congress establishing the United States Civil Service Commission
- Pendleton Woolen Mills, Pendleton, Oregon, USA, best known for its usually-plaid woollen shirts
- Pendleton Whisky, a premium Canadian Whisky imported and bottled by Hood River Distillers in Hood River, Oregon.
- Pendleton Airport, near Ottawa, Canada
- Pendleton (band), a punk band from Manchester, England
- Pendleton's Lithography, Boston, established by William S. Pendleton (1795-1879) and John B. Pendleton (1798-1866)
- Pendleton 8, a nickname given to the eight soldiers involved in the Hamdania incident because of their confinement at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
- Pendelton State University, fictional university on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (note different spelling)
- Erina Pendleton, a character from the anime/manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure