Culpeper (surname)

Culpeper, Colepeper, or Culpepper is a surname, first written "de Colepeper" in the 12th century in Kent, England. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Culpeper baronets, including:
 * Sir Thomas Culpeper, 3rd Baronet (1656–1723), English politician
 * Barons Colepeper, including:
 * John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper (died 1660), English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1643–1646
 * Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper (1635–1689), English colonial governor of Virginia
 * Alan Culpepper (born 1972), American distance runner, married to Shayne Culpepper
 * Allen Culpepper Sealy (1850–1927), English artist
 * Brad Culpepper (born 1969), American football player
 * Carmen Ana Culpeper (born 1945), Puerto Rican businesswoman, Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury
 * Cheney Culpeper (1601–1663), English landowner
 * Cynthia Culpeper (1962–2005), American rabbi
 * Daunte Culpepper (born 1977), American football player
 * Ed Culpepper (1934–2021), American football player
 * Edmund Culpeper (1660–1738), English scientific instrument maker
 * Elizabeth Brooke (writer) (Colepeper) (1601–1683), English religious writer and matriarch
 * Frances Culpeper Berkeley (Culpeper) (1634–1690s), American politician in Virginia and wife of three colonial governors
 * Hanelle Culpepper, American filmmaker
 * Jasper Culpeper (by 1508 – 1556/1564), MP for East Grinstead
 * James Culpepper, drummer for American rock band Flyleaf
 * Joel Culpepper (born 1984), English R&B singer-songwriter
 * John Culpepper (disambiguation), also Culpeper and Colepeper, several people
 * Joyce Culpeper (c.1480–c.1528), mother of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife and Queen consort of King Henry VIII
 * Kaelen Culpepper (born 2002), American baseball player
 * Knox Culpepper, American football player
 * Martin Culpepper (c. 1540–1605), English clergyman, medical doctor and academic
 * Marvin T. Culpepper (1908–1970), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
 * Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer
 * Pat Culpepper (John Patrick Culpepper Jr, born 1941), American football player and coach
 * Pepper D. Culpepper (born 1968), American political scientist
 * Randy Culpepper (born 1989), American basketball player
 * Raymond Culpepper, American evangelist, former General Overseer of the Church of God
 * Shayne Culpepper (born 1973), American middle-distance athlete
 * Thomas Culpeper (disambiguation), also Culpepper and Colepeper, several people
 * William Culpepper (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters

 * Duncan "Dunc" Culpepper, in the Culpepper Adventures series of novels by Gary Paulsen
 * Frank Culpepper, in the 1972 film The Culpepper Cattle Co.
 * Isabel Culpeper, in the books The Wolves of Mercy Falls
 * T. G. Culpepper, in the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
 * Thomas Colpeper, in the 1943 film A Canterbury Tale