Pickering (surname)

Pickering is an English toponymic surname derived from the town Pickering, North Yorkshire.

People

• Adrienne Pickering (born 1981), Australian actress
• Alice Pickering (1860–1939), English tennis player
• Andrew Pickering, sociologist and science historian
• Bill Pickering (footballer, born 1901), English former footballer
• Calvin Pickering (born 1976), American baseball player
• Charles Pickering (disambiguation)
• Charlie Pickering (born 1977), Australian comedian
• Chip Pickering (born 1963), US Representative from Mississippi and son of Charles W. Pickering
• Christopher Pickering (MP) (c. 1556–1621), MP for Cumberland
• Chris Pickering, Australian alt.country musician
• Christopher Pickering (1842–1920), British businessman and philanthropist
• Craig Pickering (born 1986), British sprinter
• David Pickering (rugby union) (born 1960), former Wales international rugby union player
• David Pickering (writer) (born 1958), reference books compiler
• Donald Pickering (1933–2009), English actor
• E. T. Pickering (1888–1961), American college baseball coach
• Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer
• Ernest Pickering (1928–2000), American fundamentalist leader
• Ernest Harold Pickering (1881-1957), British politician, Unitarian minister and professor
• Fred Pickering (1941–2019), English footballer
• Frederick Brian Pickering (1927–2017), British metallurgist
• George Pickering (disambiguation)
• Harry Pickering (born 1998), English footballer
• Jack Pickering (1908–1977), English footballer
• James Pickering (died c. 1398), English politician
• James Pickering (rugby league) (born 1966), Fijian rugby league player
• Joanna Pickering British actress, writer, feminist, academic
• John Pickering (disambiguation)
• Karen Pickering (born 1971), champion British swimmer
• Kedrick Pickering, British Virgin Islands politician
• Larry Pickering (1942—2018), 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), English former footballer
• Mike Pickering (born 1954), DJ
• Nick Pickering (born 1963), English footballer
• Philip D. Pickering (born 1948), Baron of Newton
• Rex Pickering (1936–2017), New Zealand rugby union player
• Robert Young Pickering (1849–1931), British industrialist
• Robert Hugh Pickering (1932–2015), Canadian farmer, curler and political figure in Saskatchewan
• Ron Pickering (1930–2014), English athletics coach and commentator
• Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering (1858–1920), British chemist and horticulturist
• Samuel Pickering (born 1941), English professor on whom was based the character John Keating in the film Dead Poets Society
• Shaun Pickering (1961–2023), Welsh shot putter
• Timothy Pickering (July 17, 1745 – January 29, 1829) was the third U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
• Thomas Pickering (martyr) (1621–1679), English Benedictine lay brother and martyr
• Thomas G. Pickering (1940–2009), British physician and professor of medicine
• Thomas R. Pickering (born 1931), American politician
• Tom Pickering (footballer) (1906-?), English footballer
• Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States, Postmaster General and politician
• William Pickering (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters

• Colonel Hugh Pickering, in the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its various adaptations
• Charles Pickering, the villain of the novella "The Gingerbread Girl" by Stephen King
• Nina Pickering, a lead character in the British television series Being Human

See also

• Justice Pickering (disambiguation)
• Senator Pickering (disambiguation)