List of people with surname Carpenter

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This is a list of real and fictional surnamed Carpenters.

• See Carpenter (surname) for the etymology, related names, and Y-DNA information on Carpenters.
• See Carpenter (disambiguation) for Carpenter named communities, natural features, and manmade features.
• See Historic Carpenter Houses for houses, homes, shops, homesteads, farmsteads, or other partially named or hyphenated named places with "Carpenter" or a similar meaning name.

A

• Aaron Carpenter, Canadian rugby player
• Alan Carpenter, Australian politician
• Alexander Carpenter, Latinized as Fabricius (fl.1429)
• Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, VC, British naval officer, Vice-Admiral and Victoria Cross recipient.
• Allan Carpenter, American non-fiction writer
• Allie May "A.M." Carpenter, artist and art educator
• Amanda Carpenter, American author and columnist for The Washington Times
• Angelo Carpenter, American manufacturer and politician
• Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter, British politician

B

• Benajah Carpenter, founding member of the United States Army Field Artillery Corps
• Benedict Carpenter, British sculptor and artist
• Benjamin Carpenter, Revolutionary War Colonel, leader of colonial Vermont constitution and Lt. Governor.
• Benjamin Carpenter, British army officer
• Bill Carpenter, American football player and army officer
• Bobby Carpenter, aka Bob Carpenter, American ice hockey player
• Bob Carpenter, American radio personality
• Bobby Carpenter, American football linebacker
• Boyden Carpenter, American Hillbilly and Bluegrass musician
• Brianna Carpenter, Australian Idol finalist from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Brittany Nicole Carpenter, stage name Diamond, an American rapper and former member of the group Crime Mob.

C

• Cameron Carpenter, an American organist
• Carleton Carpenter, movie, TV and stage actor, magician, author and songwriter
• Carpentras (c1470-1548), French composer of the Renaissance period
• Catherine "Kate" Carpenter, Virginia pioneer wife and mother for whom Kate's Mountain is named
• Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, historian of the Nisqually people
• Chad Carpenter, American cartoonist
• Charisma Carpenter, actress
• Charles Carpenter (1913–1966), U.S. Army officer and WWII observation pilot - aka Bazooka Charlie
• Charles C. Carpenter, Oklahoma Boomer
• Charles C. Carpenter (admiral) (1834–1899), United States Navy rear admiral
• Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter, Episcopal Bishop of Alabama
• Charles Congden Carpenter, American herpetologist and naturalist
• Charles I. Carpenter (1906–1994), first Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force
• Charles L. Carpenter, US Navy Rear Admiral, veteran of WWII and Operation Crossroads
• Charles K. Carpenter, Illinois Naturalist
• Charles Sydney 'Bubba' Carpenter, Major League Baseball player
• Charles T. Carpenter, Kansas banker taken hostage by the Dalton Gang
• Charles William Carpenter, 20th Century Baptist minister and Civil Rights activist
• Chris Carpenter, born Christopher John Carpenter, starting pitcher in Major League Baseball
• Chris Carpenter, American professional baseball pitcher
• Christine Carpenter, Professor of Medieval English History at Cambridge University
• Clarence E. "Pete" Carpenter, American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and television theme song scorer
• Claude E. Carpenter, American set decorator
• Clarence Ray Carpenter, American primatologist
• Cliff Carpenter (1915–2014), American actor
• Connie Carpenter, 1966 Mothman witness
• Connie Carpenter-Phinney, American professional cycle racer and speed skater who won four medals in World Cycling Championship competitions
• Constance Carpenter, English-born American film and musical theatre actress
• Coy Cornelius Carpenter, M.D., was the dean of the School of Medicine of Wake Forest University
• Cyrus C. Carpenter, born Cyrus Clay Carpenter, a Civil War veteran, two-term Republican Governor of Iowa and U.S. Representative from Iowa

D

• Dan Carpenter, born Daniel Roy Carpenter, an American football placekicker
• Daniel C. Carpenter, early New York Police Detective
• Dave Carpenter, bassist
• Dave Carpender, aka David Carpenter, guitarist with "The Greg Kihn Band"
• David Carpenter, early Texas settler—mentioned in Carpenters Bayou
• David Carpenter (historian) (born 1947), British historian
• David Carpenter (writer) (born 1941), Canadian novelist
• David Carpenter, serial killer also known as the "Trailside Killer"
• David Aaron Carpenter (born 1986), violist
• Davis Carpenter (1799–1878), United States Representative from New York
• Delphus E. Carpenter, Colorado state senator and pioneering water rights lawyer
• Don Carpenter, American writer
• Donald F. Carpenter, American businessman and government official
• Doug Carpenter, former hockey head coach in the National Hockey League
• Drew Carpenter, born Andrew Carpenter, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
• Dudley Newcomb Carpenter, Doctor, Navy Officer, writer.

E

• Ed Carpenter, artist specializing in large-scale public installations
• Ed Carpenter, an Indy Racing League driver
• Eddie Carpenter, Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman
• Edmund Nelson Carpenter, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
• Edmund N. Carpenter, II, law firm president and past president of the Delaware Bar Association
• Edmund Snow Carpenter, aka "Ted" Carpenter, anthropologist
• Edward Carpenter, socialist poet, anthologist, and early homosexual activist
• Edwin Francis Carpenter, American astronomer
• Elbert L. Carpenter, lumberman who helped organize the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
• Elisabeth Carpenter Satterthwait (born 1856), author
• Eliza Carpenter (1851–1924), early African-American race horse owner
• Elizabeth Carpenter, an award-winning American writer, designer and game developer
• Ernie Carpenter (1907–1997), legendary West Virginia fiddle player

F

• Flavius Josephus Carpenter, Arkansas veteran of the Civil War, steamboat captain, entrepreneur
• Frances Carpenter (1890–1972), American photographer and author
• Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 19th Century American painter
• Francis M. Carpenter (1834–1919), New York politician
• Frank G. Carpenter, 1920s travel guide author
• Frank M. Carpenter (1902–1994), curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Franklin R. Carpenter, 19th Century American mining engineer
• French Carpenter (1899–1965), legendary West Virginia fiddle player

G

• Gail Carpenter, a cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, mathematician and adaptive resonance theory pioneer
• Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter, British entomologist and evolutionary biologist
• George Carpenter (Salvation Army) (1872–1948), fifth General of The Salvation Army
• George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter (1657–1732), British soldier, MP and ambassador
• George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter (died 1749), British politician
• George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, 3rd Baron Carpenter (1723–1762), British politician. See also Earl of Tyrconnell.
• George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell (1750–1805)
• George Carpenter, 3rd Earl of Tyrconnell (1788–1812)
• George Albert Carpenter (1867–1944), U.S. federal judge, Northern District of Illinois
• George Herbert Carpenter (1865–1939), British naturalist and entomologist
• George Moulton Carpenter (1844–1896), U.S federal judge, District of Rhode Island
• George Rice Carpenter, educator, scholar and author
• George Washington Carpenter (1802–1860), American mineralogist
• Gordon Carpenter, American basketball player
• Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865–1937), American painter
• Grant Carpenter (1865–1936), American newspaperman, lawyer, and writer

H

• Harold Carpenter Hodge, toxicologist who published close to 300 papers and 5 books. He was the first president of the Society of Toxicology in 1960. Also known as Harold Carpenter & Harold Hodge.
• Harry James Carpenter, He was Warden of Keble College, Oxford (1939–1955) and then 37th Bishop of Oxford (1955–1970).
• Harry Carpenter, BBC sports commentator from the early 1950s to the 1990s
• Henry Bernard Carpenter, Unitarian clergyman and poet
• Herbert Carpenter, English cricketer
• Hermon P. Carpenter, early Florida educator
• Hick Carpenter, was an American Major League Baseball third baseman
• Holly Carpenter, Miss Ireland 2011
• Horace B. Carpenter, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• Horace Thompson Carpenter, artist and illustrator
• Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, author and radio broadcaster

I

• Ike Carpenter, South Carolina woodworker
• Imogen Carpenter (born Mary Imogene Carpenter), American musician and actress
• Isaac Carpenter, American drummer, percussionist, producer, audio engineer and session musician
• Isaac M. "Ike" Carpenter, American jazz musician and bandleader of the 1940s and 1950s

J

• J. D. "David" Carpenter, Canadian poet and crime novelist
• J. L. Carpenter, American politician
• J. Ross (aka James Ross) Carpenter (1867–1943), land developer and namesake of Carpenter, Wyoming
• Jack Carpenter (actor) (born 1984), American film actor
• Jack Carpenter (American football) (1923–2005), American football player
• Jake Burton Carpenter, owner of Burton Snowboards
• James Carpenter, American football offensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks
• James Carpenter, British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich
• James C. Carpenter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania covered bridge builder
• James Edward Carpenter, American Civil War soldier & officer and noted attorney in Philadelphia.
• James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr., American architect
• James Henry Carpenter, founder of Carpenter Technology Corporation
• James Madison Carpenter, Methodist minister, folklorist
• Jay Hall Carpenter, sculptor
• Jean Anne Carpenter, also known as Jean Carnahan, an American politician and writer who served in the United States Senate from 2001 to 2002
• Jean Harlow, American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s, born Harlean Carpenter.
• Jeanne Carpenter, American child actress of the silent era
• Jeff Carpenter, Native American musician
• Jennifer Leann Carpenter, an American actress
• John Carpenter (1729–1786), Archbishop of Dublin
• John Carpenter, first winner of Who wants to be a Millionaire US
• John Carpenter, town clerk of London in the early 15th century and author of Liber Albus
• John Condict Carpenter, American athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
• John Alden Carpenter (1876–1951), American composer
• John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, British politician
• John Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of Tyrconnell (1790–1853)
• John Howard Carpenter (born 1948), American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer
• John Jo Carpenter, pseudonym of John H. Reese, American author of Western and crime fiction
• John M. Carpenter, American nuclear engineer
• John Stilley Carpenter, Utah pioneer and LDS Church bishop
• John W. Carpenter, American agriculturist
• John Wilson Carpenter III, Lt Gen, USAF (1916–1996)
• Johnny Carpenter, American actor
• Joseph Carpenter, founder of Glen Cove, New York, the original proprietor of the "Musketa Cove Plantation" in 1668
• Josh Carpenter, American actor
• Jot D. Carpenter, American landscape architect
• Juliet Winters Carpenter, award-winning translator of modern Japanese literature into English

K

• Karen Carpenter, singer and musician, half of The Carpenters, sister of Richard
• Keion Carpenter, American football defensive back for the Atlanta Falcons
• Keith Carpenter, Canadian tennis player during the 1960s
• Ken Carpenter (athlete) (1913–1984), 1936 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the discus throw
• Ken Carpenter (American football) (born 1926), American and Canadian football player (1950–1960)
• Ken Carpenter, American track cyclist
• Ken Carpenter (announcer) (1900–1984), NBC radio announcer
• Ken Carpenter, who appeared in Hellraiser III
• Kenneth Carpenter, paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Natural History and author
• Kent E. Carpenter, professor of biological sciences at Old Dominion University
• Kip Carpenter, American speed skater
• Kyle Carpenter, Awarded of the Medal of Honor for actions in combat in Operation Enduring Freedom

L

• Lant Carpenter, English educator and Unitarian minister
• Larry Carpenter, American television soap opera director
• Lea Carpenter American writer and editor.
• Lemuel Carpenter, Anglo-American California pioneer
• Leonard Carpenter, technical writer and author of fantasy and science fiction
• Leonard Carpenter, an American rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics
• Lester Carpenter, Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
• Levi D. Carpenter (1802–1856), United States Representative from New York.
• Lew Carpenter, born Lewis Carpenter, American football running back and an assistant coach in the NFL
• Lewis Cass Carpenter (1836–1908) U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• Liz Carpenter, writer, feminist, reporter, media advisor, speech-writer, political humorist, and public relations expert
• Loren Carpenter, computer graphics researcher and developer
• Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter, du Pont heiress, Jazz Age socialite, and aviatrix
• Louis Carpenter, Kansas lawyer, victim of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
• Louis H. Carpenter, Civil War cavalry trooper and officer, Indian War officer, Spanish–American War general and Medal of Honor winner
• Lyn Carpenter, English netball administrator and former representative player

M

• Malcolm Scott Carpenter, astronaut
• Margaret Carpenter, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives 2001–2002
• Margaret Sarah Carpenter, née Geddes, British artist
• Margaret Seymour Carpenter, novelist
• Marion Carpenter, pioneer White House news photographer
• Marion Carpenter Yazdi, Bahá'í writer
• Martha (Carpenter) Meredith, mother of Samuel Meredith, first Treasurer of the United States
• Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer
• Mary Chapin Carpenter, country music singer-songwriter
• Matt Carpenter, American trail runner
• Matt Carpenter, Major League Baseball third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals
• Matthew H. Carpenter, 19th century Republican Senator for Wisconsin
• Meriva M. Carpenter, American artist
• Merlin Carpenter, artist
• Michael Carpenter, 19th-century mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Michael Carpenter, Canadian tennis player who reached the second round in singles at the 1930 Australian Championships
• Michael Carpenter, Canadian tennis player who won the doubles title at the 1966 Canadian Open
• Moses Carpenter, Native American who died in England

N

• Nathanael Carpenter (1588/9?-1628), English author and geographer
• Nathaniel L. Carpenter, entrepreneur and businessman of antebellum Natchez, Mississippi
• Neil Carpenter, Canadian pair skater
• Nicholas Andre Carpenter, film director, son of Scott Carpenter
• Novella Carpenter, writer and gardener, or gardener and writer

P

• Paul Carpenter (actor)
• Paul Carpenter, minor league baseball player
• Percy Carpenter, British artist
• Philip Herbert Carpenter, 19th Century British naturalist
• Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877), malacologist
• Philo Carpenter, Chicago's first pharmacist, and an outspoken abolitionist
• Preston Carpenter, born Verba Preston Carpenter, American football player

R

• R. R. M. Carpenter, Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter, Sr., American business executive
• R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr., Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter, Jr., owner and club president of the Philadelphia Phillies 1943–1972
• Ralph Emerson Carpenter, Jr., expert on Colonial American design
• Ramsey Carpenter, Miss Kentucky 2014, competitor for the title of Miss America 2015
• Randolph Carpenter, born William Randolph Carpenter, U.S. Representative from Kansas
• Rhys Carpenter, classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College
• Richard Carpenter (theologian) (1575–1627), English clergyman and theological writer
• Richard Carpenter (ca. 1700–1750), original owner of the Belvale property in Fairfax County, Virginia
• Richard Carpenter, British Victorian architect
• Richard Carpenter, British screenwriter
• Richard Carpenter, American musician, half of The Carpenters, brother of Karen
• Richard Cromwell Carpenter, British 19th century architect
• Rita (Carpenter) Jenrette, American celebrity, actor, television journalist, and real estate executive
• Robert Carpenter (Ohio politician)
• Robert C. Carpenter, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly
• Robert P. Carpenter, professional cricketer for Cambridge and All-England Eleven
• Rolla C. Carpenter, American engineer
• Rollo Carpenter, creator of Jabberwacky AI software
• Ron Carpenter, aka Ronald Nelson Carpenter, former professional American football player
• Ron Carpenter, British type designer of Calisto (typeface)
• Ron Carpenter, former professional American football player
• Ruly Carpenter, Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter III, principal owner and club president of the Philadelphia Phillies 1972–1981
• Russell Carpenter, American cinematographer, most widely known for his collaborations with director James Cameron

S

• Sabrina Carpenter, teen actress and singer
• Sam Carpenter (footballer) (born 1987), an Australian rules football player
• Sam Carpenter (philanthropist) (born 1949), an American philanthropist
• Samuel Carpenter (1649–1714), First Treasurer and Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania
• Scott Carpenter (1925–2013), born Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Mercury program astronaut and aquanaut
• Scott Carpenter, British water polo player
• Shawn Carpenter, American Navy veteran
• Shelt Carpenter, West Virginia outdoorsman, fiddle player, and mountain folklife philosopher
• Simon Carpenter, British entomologist
• Stanley Jennings Carpenter, US Army colonel and medical entomologist
• Stephen Carpenter, US musician
• Stephen Carpenter, US writer, film director, and cinematographer
• Stephen Cullen Carpenter, British-American journalist
• Stephen Decatur Carpenter (1818–1862), US Army officer
• Sue Carpenter, former UK TV presenter
• Susan Carpenter, American writer and pirate radio personality

T

• Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer prize winning, bestselling American author
• Terry M. Carpenter, Nebraska politician
• Thelma Carpenter, jazz singer and actress
• Theodore Carpenter (1898–1975), jazz musician
• Thomas Carpenter, American Revolutionary War officer and New Jersey glass manufacturer
• Thomas Carpenter III, Commander of Carpenter's Regiment (First Bristol Regiment) in the Revolutionary War and builder of the Col. Thomas Carpenter III House
• Thomas Glenn Carpenter, university educator and administrator
• Thomas Preston Carpenter, lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
• Tim Carpenter, Democrat member of the Wisconsin Senate

V

• Vivian Carpenter, accounting academic and business executive

W

• Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., American corporate executive
• Sir Walter Randolph Carpenter (1877–1954), Australian-Canadian entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist of American ancestry
• Warren L. Carpenter (1931–2003), M.D., USAF Flight Surgeon
• Warren William Carpenter, (1855–1937) was an American Major League Baseball third baseman
• Wendi B. Carpenter, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
• William Carpenter (born 1605 England), a founder and settler of Rehoboth, Massachusetts
• William Carpenter, English colonist, first surnamed Carpenter to settle permanently in America, in the mid-1630s
• William Carpenter (Australian politician)
• William Carpenter, water colours of India
• William Carpenter, writer
• William Carpenter, 19th Century English political reformer and writer
• William Carpenter, proponent of the Flat Earth theory
• William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), English physiologist and naturalist
• William Boyd Carpenter, English clergyman
• William H. Carpenter, U.S. Consul to Foochow, China 1861–1865
• William Henry Carpenter, American philologist
• William Hookham Carpenter, 19th century Keeper at the British Museum
• William J. Carpenter, legendary West Virginia outdoorsman
• William Kenneth Carpenter (1913–1984), 1936 Summer Olympics gold medal discus winner
• William L. Carpenter, soldier, naturalist, and geologist
• William L. Carpenter, a jurist who was elected to the Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan in 1894, and member of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1902 until 1904
• William Marbury Carpenter, American physician and natural scientist
• William Randolph Carpenter (1894–1956), US Congressman
• William (Bill) S. Carpenter, Jr. (born 1937), American football player and US Army lieutenant general
• William T. Carpenter, psychiatrist researching Schizoaffective disorder
• William Thomas Carpenter, aka "Will Tom" Carpenter, American "cowman" and author
• William the Carpenter (fl. 1087–1102), viscount of Melun, French nobleman who participated in the First Crusade

Z

• Zophar Carpenter, founder of Carpenter's Fort in Garrard County, Kentucky

Similar names

• William Carpenter Bompas (1834–1906), a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada.
• William Carpenter Lambert, aka Bill Carpenter, (1894–1982) an American fighter pilot who flew in World War I and credited with 18 aerial victories.

Fictional Characters surnamed Carpenter

No first name

• Dr. Carpenter, British spy in Ice Station Zebra (novel) by Alistair MacLean
• "Mr. Carpenter", alias of Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still) in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still
• The Carpenter family, a protagonist family line in the 1987 novel Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
• The Carpenter Clan, focuses on a group of women in the 1996 novel 'Shadow Ranch: A Novel' by Jo-Ann Mapson

A

• Andy Carpenter, the lead character in a series of mystery books (7) by David Rosenfelt.
• Atticus Carpenter, the overriding antagonist in Insurrection.

B

• Billy Carpenter, pseudonym for the Air Force colonel who served as Air Operations Chief for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April 1961.^[1]

C

• Cassie Carpenter, from EastEnders

E

• Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter, on the television show McHale's Navy

G

• Dr. Guy Carpenter, physicist protagonist of A Hole in Texas by Herman Wouk
• Guy Carpenter from Neighbours

H

• Hannah Carpenter, in EastEnders

J

• Jack Carpenter, main character in a series of books by James Swain
• Jake Carpenter, main character from Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter by Richard Platt
• Joe Carpenter, protagonist of Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz
• Dr. John Carpenter, the main character played by Elvis Presley in the 1969 musical drama film Change of Habit.
• Joseph Carpenter, Codename: "Joker", supporting character from the Read or Die series of novels, manga and anime created by Hideyuki Kurata.

K

• Kate Carpenter, Canadian theater manager and murder mystery buff in a series of books by author Deborah Nicholson.^[2]
• Kelvin Carpenter, from EastEnders

L

• Lauren Carpenter, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Lou Carpenter, from Neighbours
• Louise Carpenter, in Neighbours

M

• Meg Carpenter, a genre fiction ghostwriter, book reviewer, and writing coach in the novel Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas (2010).

O

• O Be Joyful Carpenter, a Puritan character in the 1997 novel London by Edward Rutherfurd; the genealogical chart in the front matter of the book extends the Carpenter family from the family of protagonists in his earlier book Sarum.

P

• Patsy Carpenter, the main character of the 1970 novel Moving On by Larry McMurtry
• Patsy Carpenter, a rival character in Terms of Endearment and its sequel The Evening Star played by Miranda Richardson

S

• Sabina Carpenter, widow of a Pinkerton detective in Bill Pronzini's 1890s Western detective short stories Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services (1998)

T

• Tony Carpenter, from EastEnders

Z

• Zoe Carpenter, in the soap opera Hollyoaks

See also

• All pages beginning with "Carpenter"
• All pages with titles containing "Carpenter"
• Zimmerman (surname) and Zimmermann, German surnames of occupational origin

References