Pippin (name)

Pippin, Peppin, Pepin or Pipin may refer to:

• Pippin (musical), a Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz
• Pippin (comics), a children's comic produced from 1966 to 1986
• Pippin apple, a kind of apple, any of several cultivars, sometimes referred to as pippin

People

Carolingians

Pippin, Peppin, and Pepin (Latin: Pippinus, Pipinus, and Pepinus) are variants of a single Frankish given name borne by the following figures in the Carolingian family that ruled the Frankish Empire in what is now France and the western parts of Germany in the Middle Ages:

• Pepin of Landen, nicknamed the Elder, sometimes listed as a saint
• Pepin of Herstal, nicknamed the Middle
• Pepin the Short or Pippin the Younger, father of Charlemagne
• Pepin the Hunchback, first son of Charlemagne
• Pepin of Italy, second son of Charlemagne, born Carloman and later named Pepin
• Pepin I of Aquitaine, grandson of Charlemagne, son of Louis the Pious
• Pepin II of Aquitaine, son of Pepin I of Aquitaine
• Pepin, Count of Vermandois, grandson of Pepin of Italy

Other people

• Clermont Pépin (1926–2006), Canadian pianist, composer and teacher
• Jacques Pépin (born 1935), French chef, television personality and writer
• Shiloh Pepin (1999–2009), sirenomelia patient
• Théophile Pépin (1826–1904), French mathematician
• Victor Pépin (1780-1845), American circus performer and owner
• Dan Pippin (1926–1965), basketball player
• Donald Pippin (Broadway director) (born 1926), American theatrical musical director and conductor
• Donald Pippin (opera director) (born 1926), American pianist, founder of Pocket Opera
• Horace Pippin (1888-1946), self-taught African-American painter
• Robert B. Pippin (born 1948), American philosopher
• Pepín (footballer born 1931), Spanish footballer, real name José Casas
• Ludwig Lachner (1910-2003), German footballer and manager nicknamed "Pipin"

Characters

• a character in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• the nickname of Peregrin Took in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• the protagonist of the novel The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
• the yellow dog in a picture book series by K. V. Johansen
• the little boy in the BBC children's programme Pogle's Wood
• the dog in the BBC children's programme Come Outside
• Pippin and other fictionalized versions of Pepin the Hunchback

Places

• Pepin, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Pepin County, Wisconsin
• Pepin (town), Wisconsin
• Pepin, Wisconsin
• Lake Pepin, Minnesota
• Pepin Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota

Other

• Pépin's test to determine whether a Fermat number is prime in mathematics
• Apple Pippin, multimedia technology platform
• Apple Bandai Pippin, game console designed by Apple Computer and manufactured by Bandai
• Zippin Pippin, a roller coaster
• The Pippin, original name of Kennywood Park's Thunderbolt roller coaster, until its redesign in 1967
• Cincinnati Pippins, a team in the United States Baseball League
• Yakima Valley Pippins, American baseball team

See also

• All pages with titles containing Pippin
• Saint Pepin (disambiguation)
• Pippen (surname)
• Pippen