Pippin

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Pippin, Peppin, Pepin or Pipin may refer to:

Pippin (musical), a Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz
Pippin (comics), a children's comic produced from 1966 to 1986
Pippin apple, a kind of apple, any of several cultivars, sometimes referred to as pippin

People

Carolingians

Pippin, Peppin, and Pepin (Latin: Pippinus, Pipinus, and Pepinus) are variants of a single Frankish given name borne by the following figures in the Carolingian family that ruled the Frankish Empire in what is now France and the western parts of Germany in the Middle Ages:

Pepin of Landen, nicknamed the Elder, sometimes listed as a saint
Pepin of Herstal, nicknamed the Middle
Pepin the Short or Pippin the Younger, father of Charlemagne
Pepin the Hunchback, first son of Charlemagne
Pepin of Italy, second son of Charlemagne, born Carloman and later named Pepin
Pepin I of Aquitaine, grandson of Charlemagne, son of Louis the Pious
Pepin II of Aquitaine, son of Pepin I of Aquitaine
Pepin, Count of Vermandois, grandson of Pepin of Italy

Other people

Clermont Pépin (1926–2006), Canadian pianist, composer and teacher
Jacques Pépin (born 1935), French chef, television personality and writer
Shiloh Pepin (1999–2009), sirenomelia patient
Théophile Pépin (1826–1904), French mathematician
Victor Pépin (1780-1845), American circus performer and owner
Dan Pippin (1926–1965), basketball player
Donald Pippin (Broadway director) (born 1926), American theatrical musical director and conductor
Donald Pippin (opera director) (born 1926), American pianist, founder of Pocket Opera
Horace Pippin (1888-1946), self-taught African-American painter
Robert B. Pippin (born 1948), American philosopher
Pepín (footballer born 1931), Spanish footballer, real name José Casas
Ludwig Lachner (1910-2003), German footballer and manager nicknamed "Pipin"

Characters

a character in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
the nickname of Peregrin Took in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
the protagonist of the novel The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
the yellow dog in a picture book series by K. V. Johansen
the little boy in the BBC children's programme Pogle's Wood
the dog in the BBC children's programme Come Outside
Pippin and other fictionalized versions of Pepin the Hunchback

Places

Pepin, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
Pepin County, Wisconsin
Pepin (town), Wisconsin
Pepin, Wisconsin
Lake Pepin, Minnesota
Pepin Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota

Other

Pépin's test to determine whether a Fermat number is prime in mathematics
Apple Pippin, multimedia technology platform
Apple Bandai Pippin, game console designed by Apple Computer and manufactured by Bandai
Zippin Pippin, a roller coaster
The Pippin, original name of Kennywood Park's Thunderbolt roller coaster, until its redesign in 1967
Cincinnati Pippins, a team in the United States Baseball League
Yakima Valley Pippins, American baseball team