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