Whitney (surname)

Notable people

• Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, American writer
• Amos Whitney, American mechanical engineer and inventor
• Arthur Whitney, several people
• Asa Whitney, American merchant and railroad visionary
• Asa Whitney , American inventor, politician and manufacturer
• Ashley Whitney, American freestyle swimmer
• Benson Whitney, American businessman and ambassador
• Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, American social figure
• Bill Whitney , American broadcaster
• Carl Whitney, American Negro League baseball player
• Charlotte Anita Whitney, American suffragist, civil rights activist, and Communist
• Chris Whitney, American basketball player
• Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American financier and horse breeder
• Courtney Whitney, American lawyer and Army commander during World War II
• Daniel Lawrence Whitney, American comedian better known as Larry the Cable Guy
• Dorothy Payne Whitney, American heiress and philanthropist
• Edward Baldwin Whitney, American judge and political organizer
• Eleanore Whitney, American film actress
• Eli Whitney, American inventor of the cotton gin
• Elizabeth Whitney , American politician
• Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader, wife of Newel Kimball Whitney
• Ghostemane, American rapper
• George Whitney, several people
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American social figure, wife of Harry Payne Whitney
• Glayde Whitney, American geneticist
• Gil Whitney, American television weather forecaster
• Grace Lee Whitney, American actress
• Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and thoroughbred horsebreeder
• Harry Whitney, American hunter and author who was in Greenland at the same time as Peary and Cook
• Hassler Whitney, American mathematician, one of the founders of singularity theory
• Henry Martyn Whitney, newspaper founder in the Kingdom of Hawaii
• Henry Melville Whitney, American industrialist
• James Whitney, several people called James or Jim
• Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress
• John Whitney, several people called John or Jon
• Josepha Newcomb Whitney, American clubwoman, pacifist, suffragist, and politician
• Josiah Whitney, American geologist, chief of the California Geological Survey, for whom Mount Whitney is named
• Katherine Whitney Curtis, creator of Synchronized Swimming
• Lenar Whitney, Louisiana politician
• Marva Whitney, American funk singer
• Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer
• Marylou Whitney, American horseracing figure, widow of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
• Newel Kimball Whitney, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader
• Orson F. Whitney, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader
• Pauline Payne Whitney, American heiress
• Payne Whitney, American businessman
• Phyllis A. Whitney, American mystery writer
• Ray Whitney, several people
• Richard Whitney, several people called Rich or Richard
• Robert Whitney, several people
• Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player
• Thomas Whitney, several people called Thomas or Tom
• William Whitney, several people
• Willis Rodney Whitney, American scientist

  Fictional characters

• Geraldine Weldon Whitney Saxon, Grand Dame widow to Senator Gordon Whitney and crime boss Anthony Saxon. from The Edge of Night