Whittington
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Places
In England:- Whittington, Derbyshire
- Whittington, GloucestershireWhittington, GloucestershireWhittington, Gloucestershire is a village in the county of Gloucestershire in England, United Kingdom.- Location :Whittington, Gloucestershire is situated some 4 miles south east of Cheltenham, just off the busy A40 road.- History & Amenities :...
- Whittington, LancashireWhittington, LancashireWhittington is a small settlement and civil parish in Lancashire, England, forming part of a cluster of sites along the Lune valley, each with evidence of a motte - as with Melling and Arkholme...
- Great WhittingtonGreat WhittingtonGreat Whittington is a village in Northumberland, England.- Governance :Great Whittington is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham.-Landmarks:The Devil's Causeway passes the village about to the west...
, Northumberland - Whittington, ShropshireWhittington, ShropshireWhittington is a village in north west Shropshire, England.The civil parish of Whittington has a population of 2,490 as of the 2001 census. The village of Whittington is in the centre of the parish, and two smaller villages, Hindford to the north-east and Babbinswood to the south, are also within...
- Whittington, StaffordshireWhittington, StaffordshireWhittington is a village and civil parish which lies approximately 3 miles south east of Lichfield in the Lichfield district of Staffordshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,591. The parish council is a joint one with Fisherwick...
- Whittington, WorcestershireWhittington, WorcestershireWhittington is a small village near Worcester close to Junction 7 of the M5 motorway, bounded by the motorway and the main Evesham to Worcester A44 trunk road, in the District of Wychavon...
In Australia:
- Whittington, VictoriaWhittington, VictoriaWhittington is a residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, located 4km south-east of the city centre. It is bordered by Boundary, Townsend and Coppards roads and by the former Geelong to Queenscliff railway line now known as the Bellarine Rail Trail....
In United States:
- Whittington, IllinoisWhittington, IllinoisWhittington is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Illinois, United States. Whittington is located near the eastern shore of Rend Lake and Exit 77 of Interstate 57. It is the site of the headquarters of Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area. Whittington has a post office with ZIP code...
People
- Amanda WhittingtonAmanda WhittingtonAmanda Whittington is a playwright and was born in Nottingham in 1968. After leaving school, she worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of publications and was a columnist for the Nottingham Evening Post....
(b. 1968), English playwright - Annie Whittington, U.S. Big Brother 12 contestant
- Arthur WhittingtonArthur WhittingtonArthur Lee Whittington is a former professional American football player who played running back for five seasons for the Oakland Raiders and the Buffalo Bills....
(b. 1955), American football player - Bernard WhittingtonBernard WhittingtonBernard Maurice Whittington is a former American football defensive end who played nine years in the National Football League....
, American football player - Bert WhittingtonBert WhittingtonBert Whittington was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Geelong Football Club in the VFL.-External links:*...
, Australian rules footballer - Bill WhittingtonBill WhittingtonBill Whittington is an American racing driver from Lubbock, Texas who won the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans together with his brother Don Whittington and Klaus Ludwig in a Porsche 935. The German professional Klaus Ludwig, multiple winner at Le Mans and elsewhere, did most of the driving in the heavy...
(b. 1949), American motor racing driver - Buddy WhittingtonBuddy WhittingtonBuddy Whittington is an American guitarist. He began playing the guitar inspired by his sister's records of The Beatles, Rolling Stones and, in particular, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. At the age of 14 he was already a part of the Dallas/Fort Worth music scene and playing...
(b. 1956), American guitarist - C.L. WhittingtonC.L. WhittingtonColumbus Lorenzo "C. L." Whittington is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Prairie View A&M University for one season in 2003, compiling a record of 1–10. Whittington played college football at Prairie View A&M from 1970 to 1973 and then...
, American football player - Clark WhittingtonClark WhittingtonClark Whittington is an artist and the creator of the . Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art....
, American artist - Dale WhittingtonDale WhittingtonDale Whittington , was an American racecar driver.Born in Orlando, Florida as the youngest of the three Whittington brothers...
(1959–2003), American motor racing driver - Don WhittingtonDon WhittingtonReginald "Don" Whittington is a former American racing driver from Lubbock, Texas who won the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans together with his brother Bill Whittington and Klaus Ludwig on a Porsche 935, although Ludwig, a multiple winner at Le Mans and elsewhere, did most of the driving in the heavy rain...
(b. 1946), American motor racing driver - Erik WhittingtonErik WhittingtonErik Whittington was the Lead and Rhythm Guitarist for the Christian Rock band Tragedy Ann, signed to Organic Records. Erik recorded with Tragedy Ann for all three of their albums. In 1998 he appeared on "Lesser"; in 1999 he appeared on the release "One Nation Under God" and in 2000 he appeared...
, American guitarist - Eydie WhittingtonEydie WhittingtonEydie D. Whittington is a Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. In 1995, she was elected as the Ward 8 member of the Council of the District of Columbia in a special election to replace Marion Barry, who vacated the seat to become mayor....
, American politician - Harry Whittington (author) (1915–1989), American novelist
- Harry WhittingtonHarry WhittingtonHarry M. Whittington is an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure from Austin, Texas who received international media attention on February 11, 2006, when he was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney while hunting quail with two women on a ranch in Kenedy County, Texas, near...
(b. 1927), American attorney who was shot by Dick CheneyDick CheneyRichard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush.... - Harry B. WhittingtonHarry B. WhittingtonHarry Blackmore Whittington FRS was a British paleontologist based at the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, and was affiliated to Sidney Sussex College. He attended Handsworth Grammar School in Birmingham, followed by a degree and Ph.D in geology from the University of Birmingham...
(1916–2010), British paleontologist - Hulon B. WhittingtonHulon B. WhittingtonHulon Brocke Whittington was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
((1921–1969) , American soldier - Jeff WhittingtonJeff WhittingtonJeff Whittington was a teenager who was murdered by two men in an anti-gay hate crime in Wellington, New Zealand. It is unknown whether Whittington was gay. Whittington was beaten by Jason Morris Meads and Stephen Smith, suffering severe facial injuries and perforated bowels. After being taken to...
(1985–1999), New Zealand murder victim - Jim WhittingtonJim WhittingtonReverend Jim Whittington . Whittington is a televangelist and faith healer who spent 2 1/2 years in prison for money laundering, mail fraud, conspiracy, and interstate transportation of stolen property from his evangelist crusades and direct mail business in the 1980s. In 1992, Whittington and four...
(b. 1941), American televangelist - Khadijah WhittingtonKhadijah WhittingtonKhadijah Ameenah Whittington is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the WNBA. After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School , Whittington attended North Carolina State University where she became the fourth player in school history to score 1,000 points and grab...
(b. 1986), American basketball player - Lauren WhittingtonLauren WhittingtonLauren W. Whittington is the Politics Editor for Roll Call. She was promoted to that position in 2009; prior to that, she worked as a political reporter at the same publication....
, American journalist - Richard WhittingtonRichard WhittingtonSir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...
, 14th-century English politician- Dick Whittington and His CatDick Whittington and His CatDick Whittington and His Cat is an English folk tale that has often been used as the basis for stage pantomimes and other adaptations. It tells of a poor boy in the 14th century who becomes a wealthy merchant and eventually the Lord Mayor of London because of the ratting abilities of his cat...
, English folk-tale inspired by Richard Whittington
- Dick Whittington and His Cat
- Richard Whittington (academic)Richard Whittington (academic)Richard Whittington is a prominent academic in the area of Corporate Strategy. Currently at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, Whittington has been influential in the Strategy-as-Practice approach, a more sociologically and less managerial approach to the study of business...
, Corporate Strategy Academic - Robert WhittingtonRobert WhittingtonRobert Whittington was an English grammarian. He was a pupil of the grammarian John Stanbridge....
, 16th-century English grammarian - Rock Whittington, American guitarist
- Stephen WhittingtonStephen WhittingtonStephen Whittington is an Australian composer, pianist, teacher and writer on music.- Biography :Whittington was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1953. He studied music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, where his piano teacher was Clemens Leske Sr...
(b.1953), Australian composer, pianist, writer - Sweet Dick WhittingtonSweet Dick WhittingtonSweet Dick Whittington is a long-time disc jockey in Los Angeles, who has also appeared as an actor in movies and on television.Prior to his arrival in Southern California, Whittington was a popular radio personality in the San Francisco Bay area at Oakland's KROW , where he hosted the "Night...
(b. 1934), American disc jockey - V.V. WhittingtonV.V. WhittingtonVolney Voss Whittington, known as V.V. Whittington or Voss Whittington , was a banker from Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1928 to 1932.Whittington was born in Ivan in Bossier Parish but resided most of his life in the...
(1893–1974), American politician - William Madison WhittingtonWilliam Madison WhittingtonWilliam Madison Whittington was a Democratic politician from Mississippi. Whittington was a Representative to the 69th United States Congress in 1925, and the twelve succeeding Congresses ....
(1878–1962), American politician
Other
- Whittington HospitalWhittington HospitalThe Whittington Hospital is a British hospital in Archway, Islington, London. It is named after Richard Whittington.It is a district general hospital, although it is also a teaching hospital of the UCL Medical School and Middlesex University School of Health and Social Sciences.- History :Although...
in London, England - Whittington (novel), by Alan Armstrong