List of people with surname Carpenter
This is a list of real and fictional people with the surname Carpenter.
- See Carpenter for the etymology and related names.
- See Carpenter for Carpenter named communities, natural features, and manmade features.
- See Carpenter House for houses, homes, shops, homesteads, farmsteads, or other partially named or hyphenated named places with "Carpenter" or a similar meaning name.
A
- A. J. Carpenter, Rear Admiral in the United States Coast Guard
- Aaron Carpenter, Canadian rugby player
- Alan Carpenter, Australian politician
- Alexander Carpenter, Latinized as Fabricius
- Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, British naval officer, Vice-Admiral and Victoria Cross recipient
- Allan Carpenter, American non-fiction writer
- Allie May "A.M." Carpenter, artist and art educator
- Almeria Carpenter British courtier and mistress of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
- Amanda Carpenter, American author and columnist for The Washington Times
- Angelo Carpenter, American manufacturer and politician
- Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter, British politician
- Aurelius O. Carpenter, American photographer, writer and abolitionist
B
- B. Platt Carpenter, Governor of Montana Territory from 1884 to 1885
- Benajah Carpenter, founding member of the US Army Field Artillery Corps
- 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
C
- Cameron Carpenter, American organist
- Candi Carpenter, American country music singer-songwriter
- Carleton Carpenter, movie, TV and stage actor, magician, author and songwriter
- Catherine "Kate" Carpenter, Virginia pioneer for whom Kate's Mountain is named
- Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, historian of the Nisqually people
- Chad Carpenter, American cartoonist
- Charisma Carpenter, American actor
- Charles Carpenter born Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter, 6th Episcopal Bishop of Alabama
- Charles Carpenter , English cricketer
- Charles Carpenter , also known as "Bazooka Charlie", United States Army L-4 aircraft pilot
- Charles C. Carpenter, Oklahoma Boomer - organized and instigated the first unauthorized attempt to homestead the Unassigned Lands in Oklahoma Territory in 1879
- Charles C. Carpenter , United States Navy rear admiral
- Charles Congden Carpenter, American naturalist and herpetologist
- Charles F. Carpenter, President of the U.S. Tri-State League in baseball, 1906–1913
- Charles H. Carpenter, first photographer for the Field Museum, Chicago, 1899–1947
- Charles I. Carpenter, 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, American minister in northern Illinois state and Illinois Naturalist
- Charles Sydney Carpenter, nicknamed Bubba Carpenter, Major League Baseball player
- Charles T. Carpenter, Kansas banker taken hostage by the Dalton Gang
- Charles U. Carpenter, American business manager and management author
- Charles William Carpenter, 20th Baptist minister and Civil Rights activist
- Chris Carpenter, born Christopher John Carpenter, starting pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Chris Carpenter American professional baseball pitcher
- Christina Carpenter, 14th-century anchoress
- Christine Carpenter, professor of medieval English history
- Clarence E. "Pete" Carpenter, American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and television theme song scorer
- Clarence Ray Carpenter, American primatologist
- Claude E. Carpenter, American set decorator
- Cliff Carpenter, American actor
- Connie Carpenter-Phinney, American professional cycle racer and speed skater
- Constance Carpenter, English-born American film and musical theatre actor
- Coy Cornelius Carpenter, physician and dean of the School of Medicine of Wake Forest University
- Cyrus C. Carpenter, Civil War veteran, Republican governor of Iowa, U.S. Representative from Iowa
D
- Dan Carpenter, 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, baseball player
- David Carpenter, baseball player
- David Carpenter, English cricketer
- David Carpenter , British historian
- David Carpenter , Canadian novelist
- David Carpenter, serial killer also known as the "Trailside Killer"
- David Aaron Carpenter, violist
- David G. Carpenter, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security 1998-2002
- David O. Carpenter, professor of environmental health sciences
- Davis Carpenter, U.S. Representative from New York
- Delphus E. Carpenter, Colorado state senator and water rights lawyer
- Don Carpenter, American writer
- Don Carpenter, electrical engineer, discoverer of the plasmasphere
- Donald F. Carpenter, American businessman and government official
- Doug Carpenter, hockey coach
- Drew Carpenter, American baseball pitcher
- Dudley Newcomb Carpenter, doctor, Navy Officer, writer.
E
- Ed Carpenter, artist specializing in large-scale public installations
- Ed Carpenter, 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
- Edward Carpenter , Anglican priest and author
- Edward Childs Carpenter, American author, playwright, and director
- Edwin Francis Carpenter, American astronomer
- Elbert L. Carpenter, lumberman who helped organize the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, namesake of Elbert L. Carpenter House
- Ellie Carpenter, Australian footballer
- Elisabeth Carpenter Satterthwait, author
- Eliza Carpenter, early African-American race horse owner
- Elizabeth Carpenter, American writer, designer, and game developer
- Ensley A. Carpenter, doctor for whom the town of Carpenter, Kentucky was named
- Ernie Carpenter , West Virginia fiddle player
F
- Flavius Josephus Carpenter, Arkansas veteran of the Civil War, steamboat captain, entrepreneur
- Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, early science fiction and fantasy writer
- Frances Carpenter, American photographer and author
- Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 19th century American painter
- Francis M. Carpenter, New York politician
- Frank G. Carpenter, 1920s travel guide author
- Frank M. Carpenter, paleoentomologist & curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Franklin R. Carpenter, 19th century American mining engineer
- French Carpenter, 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 , fifth General of The Salvation Army
- George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter, British soldier, MP and ambassador
- George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter, British politician
- George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, 3rd Baron Carpenter, British politician
- George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell
- George Carpenter, 3rd Earl of Tyrconnell
- George Albert Carpenter, U.S. federal judge, Northern District of Illinois
- George Herbert Carpenter, British naturalist and entomologist
- George Moulton Carpenter, U.S federal judge, District of Rhode Island
- George Rice Carpenter, educator, scholar and author
- George Washington Carpenter, American mineralogist
- Gordon Carpenter, American basketball player
- Grace Carpenter Hudson, American painter
- Grant Carpenter, American newspaperman, lawyer, and writer
H
- Harlean Carpenter, better known as Jean Harlow, American film actor
- Harry Carpenter, BBC sports commentator
- Harry Carpenter, warden of Keble College, Oxford and 37th Bishop of Oxford
- Helen Knipe Carpenter, illustrator and writer
- Henry Bernard Carpenter, Unitarian clergyman and poet
- Herbert Carpenter, English cricketer
- Hermon P. Carpenter, early Florida educator
- Hick Carpenter, 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, 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. Carpenter, Canadian poet and crime novelist
- J. L. Carpenter, American politician
- J.R. Carpenter, Canadian artist, writer and performer
- Jack Carpenter , American film actor
- Jack Carpenter , 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, American politician and writer
- Jeanne Carpenter, American child actor of the silent era
- Jeff Carpenter, Native American musician
- Jennifer Carpenter, American actor
- Joel Carpenter, American screenwriter
- John Carpenter
- John Carpenter
- John Carpenter, town clerk of London in the early 15th century and author of Liber Albus
- John Carpenter, American athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
- John Alden Carpenter, American composer
- John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, British politician
- John Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of Tyrconnell
- John Howard Carpenter, 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, nuclear engineer
- John Stilley Carpenter, Utah pioneer and LDS Church bishop
- John W. Carpenter, American agriculturist
- John Wilson Carpenter III, Lt Gen, USAF
- Johnny Carpenter, American actor
- Joseph Estlin Carpenter Unitarian minister and pioneer in the study of comparative religion
- Josh Carpenter, American actor
- Jot D. Carpenter, American landscape architect
- Joyce Carpenter, New Zealand diver
- Juliet Winters Carpenter, translator of modern Japanese literature into English
- Justin Carpenter, a game developer known for making Harms Way.
K
- Karen Carpenter, singer and musician, half of The Carpenters
- Kathleen E. Carpenter, British freshwater ecologist
- Keion Carpenter, American football defensive back
- Keith Carpenter, Canadian tennis player
- Ken Carpenter , 1936 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the discus throw
- Ken Carpenter , American and Canadian football player
- Ken Carpenter, American track cyclist
- Ken Carpenter , NBC radio announcer
- Kenneth Carpenter, paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Natural History and author
- Kent E. Carpenter, professor of biological sciences
- Kip Carpenter, American speed skater
- Kyle Carpenter, Medal of Honor recipient 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, American Olympic rower
- Lester Carpenter, Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
- Levi D. Carpenter, United States Representative from New York
- Lew Carpenter, American football running back and coach
- Lewis C. Carpenter, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Little Carpenter, nickname of Attakullakulla, influential Cherokee leader and the tribe's First Beloved Man from 1761 to c. 1775
- Liz Carpenter, feminist writer, reporter, and public relations expert
- Loren Carpenter, computer graphics researcher and developer
- Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter, du Pont heiress, Jazz Age socialite, and aviator
- Louis Carpenter, Kansas lawyer, victim of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
- Louis George Carpenter, professor and engineer
- Louis H. Carpenter, Civil War cavalry trooper, Spanish–American War general, and Medal of Honor winner
- Lucy Carpenter, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of York and Director of the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory
- Lyn Carpenter, English netball administrator and former player
M
- Malcolm Scott Carpenter, better known as 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, White House news photographer
- Marion Carpenter Yazdi, Bahá'í writer
- Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer
- Mary Chapin Carpenter, country music singer-songwriter
- Matt Carpenter, Major League Baseball third baseman
- Matt Carpenter, American trail runner
- Matthew H. Carpenter, 19th century Republican Senator for Wisconsin
- Melanie Carpenter, abducted and murdered Canadian woman
- Meriva M. Carpenter, American artist
- Merlin Carpenter, artist
- Michael Carpenter, 19th-century mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Michael Carpenter, Canadian tennis player
- Moses Carpenter, Native American who died in England
N
- Nathanael Carpenter, English author and geographer
- Nathaniel L. Carpenter, entrepreneur and businessman of antebellum Natchez, Mississippi
- Neil Carpenter, Canadian pair skater
- Nicholas Carpenter, film director, son of Scott Carpenter
- Novella Carpenter, writer and gardener, or gardener and writer
P
- Patricia Carpenter
- Patricia Carpenter, professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University
- Paul Carpenter
- Paul Carpenter, minor league baseball player
- Paul B. Carpenter, Californian politician
- Percy Carpenter, British artist
- Philip Herbert Carpenter, 19th Century British naturalist
- Philip Pearsall Carpenter, malacologist
- Philo Carpenter, Chicago's first pharmacist, and an outspoken abolitionist
- Preston Carpenter, American football player
R
- R. R. M. Carpenter, American business executive
- R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr., owner and club president of the Philadelphia Phillies
- Ralph Emerson Carpenter, Jr., expert on Colonial American design
- Ramsey Carpenter, Miss Kentucky 2014, competitor for the title of Miss America 2015
- Randolph Carpenter, U.S. Representative from Kansas
- Rhys Carpenter, classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College
- Richard Carpenter , English clergyman and theological writer
- Richard Carpenter, 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 Carpenter
- Richard Cromwell Carpenter, British 19th century architect
- Rita Jenrette, better known Rita Jenrette American celebrity, actor, television journalist, and real estate executive
- Robert Carpenter
- 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, American football player
- Ron Carpenter, American football player
- Ron Carpenter, British type designer
- Ruly Carpenter, principal owner and club president of the Philadelphia Phillies
- Russell Carpenter, American cinematographer
S
- Sabrina Carpenter, actress and singer
- Sam Carpenter , Australian rules football player
- Samuel Carpenter, First Treasurer and Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania
- Scott Carpenter, Mercury program astronaut and aquanaut
- Scott Carpenter, British water polo player
- Shawn Carpenter, American Navy veteran
- Shelt Carpenter, West Virginia outdoorsman and fiddle player
- 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, US Army officer
- Sue Carpenter, former UK TV presenter
- Susan Carpenter, American writer and pirate radio personality
T
- Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer-prize-winning American author
- Terry Carpenter, Nebraska politician
- Thelma Carpenter, jazz singer and actress
- Theodore Carpenter, jazz musician
- Thomas Carpenter , English MP who represented Chichester
- Thomas Carpenter , American soldier and glassmaker
- Thomas Carpenter Jr., U.S. Army soldier
- Thomas Carpenter III, American soldier
- Thomas G. Carpenter, American educator
- Thomas Preston Carpenter, American lawyer and judge
- Tim Carpenter, Democrat member of the Wisconsin Senate
V
- Vivian Carpenter, accounting academic and business executive
W
- Walter Randolph Carpenter, Australian-Canadian entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist
- Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., American corporate executive
- Warren L. Carpenter, US Air Force flight surgeon
- Warren William Carpenter, nicknamed Hick Carpenter, was an American Major League Baseball third baseman
- Wendi B. Carpenter, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
- William Carpenter, of the Rehoboth Carpenter family, a founder and settler of Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- William Carpenter, English colonist, settler in Rhode Island in the mid-1630s
- William Carpenter
- 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, 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, known as Ken Carpenter , 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, known as Randolph Carpenter, US Congressman
- William S. Carpenter, Jr., known as Bill Carpenter, 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, viscount of Melun, French nobleman who participated in the First Crusade
Z
Fictional characters surnamed Carpenter
No first name
- Dr. Carpenter, British spy in Ice Station Zebra
- "Mr. Carpenter", alias of Klaatu in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still
- The Carpenter family, a protagonist family line in the 1987 novel Sarum
- The Carpenter Clan, focuses on a group of women in the 1996 novel Shadow Ranch by Jo-Ann Mapson
A
- Andy Carpenter, the lead character in a series of mystery books by David Rosenfelt
- Atticus Carpenter, the overriding antagonist in Insurrection
B
- Bop Carpenter, patriarch of the Carpenter family clan in Jo-Ann Mapson's novel Shadow Ranch
C
- Cassie Carpenter, from EastEnders
D
- Derek Carpenter, in the 2010 television film Mothman
E
- Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter, on the television show McHale's Navy
G
- Dr. Guy Carpenter, physicist protagonist of A Hole in Texas
- 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 the novel Sole Survivor
- Dr. John Carpenter, the main character played by Elvis Presley in the 1969 musical drama film Change of Habit.
- Joseph Carpenter, codenamed "Joker", supporting character from the Read or Die series of novels, manga, and anime
K
- 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 2010 novel Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas
- Michael Carpenter, a major side character in The Dresden Files book series by Jim Butcher
N
- Nora Carpenter, in the American horror movie Final Destination 2
O
- O Be Joyful Carpenter, a Puritan character in the 1997 novel London
P
- Patsy Carpenter, the main character of the 1970 novel Moving On by Larry McMurtry
- Patsy Carpenter, a character in Terms of Endearment
S
- Sabina Carpenter, widow of a Pinkerton detective in Bill Pronzini's 1890s Western detective short story collection Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services
T
- Tony Carpenter, from EastEnders
Z
- Zoe Carpenter, in the soap opera Hollyoaks