Whitton
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People

  • Charlotte Whitton
    Charlotte Whitton
    Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, OC, CBE was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964...

     (1896-1975), Canadian feminist and Mayor of Ottawa
  • David Whitton
    David Whitton
    David Whitton is a British journalist, Labour party politician and former MSP. He was elected to the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden in 2007, defeating the incumbent Independent MSP Jean Turner, and losing the seat at the 2011 election to Fiona McLeod of the Scottish National...

    , Scottish politician
  • Donald Whitton
    Donald Whitton
    Donald Richard "Don" Whitton is an Canadian concert cellist, recording musician, and teacher, with a professional career in music spanning over 50 years.-Biography:...

     (born 1923), Canadian cellist, and teacher
  • Evan Whitton
    Evan Whitton
    Evan Whitton is an Australian journalist who currently is a columnist the online legal journal Justinian. He was editor of The National Times from 1978 to 1981, Chief Reporter and European Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, Reader in Journalism at the University of Queensland, Journalist...

    , Australian journalist
  • Geoff Whitton
    Geoff Whitton
    Geoff Whitton is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....

     (born 1942), Australian rules footballer
  • Ivo Whitton
    Ivo Whitton
    Ivo Harrington Whitton was an Australian amateur golfer, who is the only Australian to have won the Australian Open five times .Whitton was born in Moonee Ponds, Victoria...

     (1893-1967), Australian golfer
  • John Whitton
    John Whitton
    John Whitton was appointed Engineer-in-Charge for the New South Wales Railways, Australia, in January 1867. Over the next 32 years he completed 2811 miles of railway around NSW and Victoria...

     (1820-1898), Australian rail engineer
  • Margaret Whitton
    Margaret Whitton
    Margaret Whitton is an American stage, film, and television actress, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Whitton did her primary film work between 1986 and 1993. Her most visible roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League and its sequel Major League II, and as...

     (born 1950), American actress
  • Steve Whitton
    Steve Whitton
    Stephen Paul "Steve" Whitton is a former English footballer who played as a striker. He was born in East Ham, London.In a playing career spanning 20 years , he made more than 450 league appearances. Whitton played in the Football League and Premier League in England, the Swedish Allsvenskan and...

     (born 1960), English footballer

United Kingdom

England
  • Whitton, County Durham
    Whitton, County Durham
    Whitton is a village within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated to the north west of Stockton-on-Tees, near Stillington and Thorpe Thewles.-Landmarks:...

  • Whitton, North Lincolnshire
    Whitton, North Lincolnshire
    Whitton is an English village and civil parish of about 170 inhabitants in North Lincolnshire. It is located at the northern termination of the Cliff range of hills, on the south shore of the Humber, about below Trent Falls, and west of Barton-upon-Humber...

  • Whitton, London
    Whitton, London
    Whitton is a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, situated 10.7 miles west south-west of Charing Cross in Central London...

  • Whitton, Suffolk
    Whitton, Suffolk
    Whitton is an ancient parish and now an area of Ipswich, in Suffolk. It is thought to have been a Saxon colony, possibly dating from the Saxon invasion of around 430 AD. It appears in the Domesday Book as Widituna, possibly meaning Hwita's farm or White's farm....


United States

  • Whitton, California, name prior to 1911 of Planada, California
    Planada, California
    Planada is a census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States. Planada is located east of Merced, at an elevation of 226 feet...

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