Pickering (surname)
Pickering is an English toponymic surname derived from the town Pickering, North Yorkshire.
People with Pickering as a surname:
- Adrienne Pickering (born 1981), Australian actress
- Alice Pickering (1860–1939), English tennis player
- Andrew Pickering, sociologist and science historian
- Bill Pickering (born 1901), former English professional footballer
- Calvin Pickering (born 1976), American baseball player
- Charles Pickering (naturalist) (1805–1878), physician and naturalist
- Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), Appeals Court judge
- Charlie Pickering (born 1977), Australian comedian
- Charles W. "Chip" Pickering (born 1963), the judge's son and US Representative from Mississippi
- Chris Pickering, Australian alt.country musician
- Christopher Pickering (1842–1920), British businessman and philanthropist
- Craig Pickering (born 1986), British sprinter
- Donald Pickering (born 1933), English actor
- E. T. Pickering (1888–1961), American college baseball coach
- Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer
- Ernest Pickering (1928–2000), American fundamentalist leader
- Fred Pickering (1941–2019), English footballer (soccer) who played for Blackburn Rovers F.C.
- Frederick Brian Pickering (1927–2017), British metallurgist
- Jack Pickering (1908–1977), English footballer (soccer) who played for Sheffield United F.C.
- Sir James Pickering, British politician of the fourteenth century
- Joanna Pickering British actress, writer, feminist, academic
- John Pickering (1737–1805), American judge
- John Pickering (footballer) (born 1944), English football manager
- John E. Pickering (1918–1997) a pioneer in the field of radiobiology, aviation medicine and space medicine and a Colonel in the United States Air Force
- Karen Pickering (born 1971), champion British swimmer
- Kedrick Pickering, a British Virgin Islands politician
- Larry Pickering (born 1942), Australian political cartoonist
- Liam Pickering (born 1968), Australian Rules footballer
- Lionel Pickering (1932–2006), English owner of Derby County football club
- Mick Pickering (born 1956), former professional English fotballer
- Mike Pickering (born 1954), DJ
- Nick Pickering (born 1963), English footballer
- Philip D. Pickering (born 1948), Baron of Newton
- Ron Pickering (1930–2014), English athletics coach, commentator
- Spencer U. Pickering, (1858–1920) a physical chemist
- Samuel Pickering (born 1941), an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society
- Shaun Pickering (born 1961), Welsh shot putter
- Thomas Pickering (martyr) (1621–1679), English Benedictine lay brother and martyr
- Thomas R. Pickering (born 1931), American politician
- Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States, Postmaster General, and Massachusetts statesman
- William Pickering (disambiguation), several people
Fictional characters:
- Nina Pickering, a lead character in the British television series Being Human
Categories:
- Surnames
- English-language surnames
- English toponymic surnames