List of people with surname Carpenter

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• 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