Pickering (surname)

Pickering is a British surname.

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
• 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
• Frederick Brian Pickering, British metallurgist
• Sir James Pickering, British politician of the fourteenth century
• Jack Pickering (1908–1977), English footballer (soccer) who played for Sheffield United F.C.
• John Pickering (1737–1805), American judge
• John Pickering (football manager) (born 1944), English football manager
• {{John E. Pickering]] 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
• 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
• Nick Pickering (born 1963), English footballer
• Philip D. Pickering (born 1948), Baron of Newton
• Ron Pickering (1930-1991), English athletics coach, commentator
• Spencer U. Pickering, (1858–1920) a physical chemist
• Samuel F. Pickering Jr. (born 1941), an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society
• Blessed Thomas Pickering (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 Hayward Pickering (1910–2004), Rocket Man, New Zealander and former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), astronomer
• William Pickering (governor) (1798–1873), English-born American politician
• William Pickering (fiction), director of the National Reconnaissance Office in Dan Brown's book Deception Point
• William A. Pickering (1840–1907), first Protector appointed by the British government to administer the Chinese Protectorate in colonial Singapore
• William Pickering (publisher) (1796–1854), British publisher and bookseller