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