Whiting (given name)
Whiting is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Almon Whiting Babbitt, early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
- George Whiting Badman, South Australian business man, horse breeder and owner
- Carl Whiting Bishop, American archeologist specializing in East Asian civilizations
- Richard Whiting Blue, U.S. Representative from Kansas
- William Whiting Boardman, politician and United States Representative from Connecticut
- William Whiting Borden, philanthropist and millionaire Christian missionary candidate
- George Whiting Flagg, was an American painter of historical scenes and genre pictures
- Whiting Griswold, American abolitionist, lawyer and politician
- Francis Whiting Halsey, American journalist, editor and historian
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton, American lawyer and Republican politician
- Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz, American novelist and author
- Luther Whiting Mason, American music educator hired by the Meiji period government of Japan
- Christine Whiting Parmenter, American author
- Rex Whiting Pearson, Australian politician
- Lucien Whiting Powell, landscape painter who gave the village of Airmont, Virginia its name
- Barbara Whiting Smith, actress in movies and on radio and television
- Joseph Whiting Stock, American painter of portraits, miniatures, and landscape paintings
- Walker Whiting Vick, aide to Woodrow Wilson in 1912, officer of the Democratic National Committee
- Whiting Willauer, American ambassador to Costa Rica and Honduras
- Whiting Williams, author, co-founder of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland
- Charles Whiting Wooster, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Navy
