Whittaker
Whittaker is a surname of English origin, meaning the white acre, and given name, also spelled "Whitaker" and "Whitacre," and may refer to:Surname
- Aaron Whittaker, New Zealand rugby player
- Arnie Whittaker, English footballer
- Bill Whittaker, English footballer
- Bill Whittaker, New Zealand lawn bowler
- Bob Whittaker U.S. Congressman
- Charles Evans Whittaker, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme court from 1957 to 1962
- Dale Whittaker,, former President of the University of Central Florida
- David Whittaker , computer game programmer
- Dick Whittaker, Irish footballer
- E. T. Whittaker, English mathematician
- Enos Whittaker, English footballer
- Fozzy Whittaker, American football player
- Frank Whittaker, Indian bishop
- George Whittaker , member of the House of Commons of Canada
- George Whittaker , British rower
- George Byrom Whittaker, English bookseller and publisher
- Jack Whittaker, Canadian politician
- Jack Whittaker , American US$315 million lottery winner
- James Whittaker, Shaker leader
- Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer, first American to summit Mount Everest, twin brother of Lou
- Jodie Whittaker, English actress
- John Whittaker , 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 , English botanist and collector of Australian plants
- Leon Whittaker, U.S. blues musician
- Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer, high-altitude and glacier-travel guide, twin brother of Jim
- Maria Whittaker, former English glamour model
- Meredith Whittaker, American artificial intelligence researcher
- Rebecca Whittaker, Canadian politician
- Red Whittaker, robot scientist
- Robert Whittaker
- Roger Whittaker, Kenyan singer/songwriter and musician of British descent
- Sally Whittaker, British soap opera actress
- Sammy Whittaker, English footballer
- Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
- Stuart Whittaker English football player
- Thomas Whittaker English Catholic martyr
- Thomas Palmer Whittaker, British politician
- Tom Whittaker , English football player, trainer, and manager
- Tom Whittaker , mountaineer, first disabled person to summit Mount Everest
- Walter Whittaker, English football goalkeeper with Newton Heath, Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Derby County
- Victor P. Whittaker a British biochemist who pioneered the studies on the subcellular fractionation of the brain
- William G. Whittaker, English composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer
Given name
- Whittaker Chambers, American writer, witness in Alger Hiss espionage case
In the UK surname is well represented in Lanarkshire, Derbyshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire, and in the US, the surname is well represented in Utah, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
