Whipple (surname)

• Abraham Whipple, American Revolutionary War naval commander
• Addison A.B.C. Whipple, American journalist, editor, historian and author
• Allen Whipple, American surgeon
• Amiel Weeks Whipple, American military engineer and surveyor
• Beverly Whipple, American author, sexologist and Professor Emerita at Rutgers University
• Charles W. Whipple, American lawyer, politician and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
• Clara Whipple, silent film actress
• Diane Whipple, victim of a fatal dog attack in San Francisco
• Dorothy Whipple, English writer of popular fiction
• Edwin Percy Whipple, American essayist and critic
• Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall, née Whipple, abolitionist, poet, novelist, editor, botanist, spiritualist medium, and advocate of women's, voters', and workers' rights
• Francis John Welsh Whipple, British mathematician and meteorologist
• Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer
• George Whipple, American physician, biomedical researcher, Nobel Prize winner
• George C. Whipple, American civil engineer and expert in the field of sanitary microbiology, inventor of Whipple's index and co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health
• Guy Montrose Whipple, American educational psychologist
• Henry Benjamin Whipple, first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, United States
• Inez Whipple Wilder, American zoologist
• John Adams Whipple, American inventor and early photographer
• Joseph Whipple, wealthy merchant in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and militia colonel
• Joseph Whipple Jr., merchant and deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of the above
• Joseph Whipple III, merchant and deputy governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of the above
• Mark Whipple, American college football and National Football League coach and college football player
• Mary Margaret Whipple, American politician
• Maurine Whipple, American novelist
• Philippa Whipple, British high court judge and barrister
• Prince Whipple, African-American slave and later freedman, participant in the American Revolution
• Robert Stewart Whipple, businessman in the British scientific instrument trade, collector of science books and scientific instruments and author
• Sam Whipple, American actor
• Squire Whipple, American civil engineer known as the father of iron bridge building in America
• Thomas Whipple Jr., American politician
• Walter Whipple, Associate Teaching Professor of Polish, author of many English translations of Polish poetry
• William Whipple, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence