Whittaker
Whittaker is a surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning the white acre, and given name, also spelled "Whitaker" and "Whitacre," and may refer to:
- As a surname
- Aaron Whittaker, New Zealand rugby player
- Bill Whittaker (footballer), English footballer
- Bill Whittaker (bowls), New Zealand lawn bowler
- Bob Whittaker U.S. Congressman
- Charles Evans Whittaker (1901–1973), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme court from 1957 to 1962
- David Whittaker (video game composer) (born 1957), computer game programmer
- Dick Whittaker (1934–1998), Irish footballer
- E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956), English mathematician
- Enos Whittaker, English footballer
- Frank Whittaker, Indian bishop
- Gavin Whittaker, Canadian politician
- George Whittaker, Canadian Politician
- Jack Whittaker (Canadian politician), Canadian politician
- Jack Whittaker (lottery winner) (born 1947), American US$315 million lottery winner
- James Whittaker, Shaker leader
- Jim Whittaker (born 1929), American mountaineer, first American to summit Mount Everest (1963), twin brother of Lou
- Jodie Whittaker, English actress
- John Whittaker (UKIP politician) (born 1945), British member of the European Parliament
- John Avery Whittaker, fictional character in the Adventures in Odyssey radio series
- John Macnaughten Whittaker, English mathematician
- Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, 19th century West Point student and victim of assault
- Joseph Whittaker (botanist) (1813–1894), English botanist and collector of Australian plants
- Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, U.S. blues musician
- Lou Whittaker (born 1929), American mountaineer, high-altitude and glacier-travel guide, twin brother of Jim
- Maria Whittaker (born 1969), former English glamour model
- Rebecca Whittaker, Canadian politician
- Red Whittaker, robot scientist
- Robert Whittaker (1920–1980), American vegetation ecologist
- Roger Whittaker (born 1936), Kenyan singer/songwriter and musician of British descent
- Sally Whittaker (born 1963), British soap opera actress
- Sammy Whittaker (1888–1952), English footballer
- Steven Whittaker (born 1984), Scottish footballer
- Stuart Whittaker (born 1975) English football player
- Thomas Whittaker (martyr) English Catholic martyr
- Thomas Palmer Whittaker, British politician
- Tom Whittaker (footballer) (1898–1956), English football player, trainer, and manager
- Tom Whittaker (mountaineer) (born 1948), mountaineer, first disabled person to summit Mount Everest
- Walter Whittaker (1878 - 1917), English football goalkeeper with Newton Heath (Manchester United), Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Derby County
- Victor P. Whittaker (born 1919) a British biochemist who pioneered the studies on the subcellular fractionation of the brain
- William G. Whittaker (1876–1944), English composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer
- As a given name
- Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), American writer, witness in Alger Hiss espionage case
The surname is well represented in Lanarkshire, Derbyshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire.
See also
- Whittaker's, a chocolate and sweets producer
- Whittaker's sundew, a carnivorous plant
- Whittaker and Watson, a mathematics book, A Course of Modern Analysis
- Whittaker model and Whittaker function, mathematical spatial principles
- Related names
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