Temple (name)

People and fictional characters with the name Temple include:

Surname

 * Bill Temple (footballer) (1914–2006), English footballer
 * Derek Temple (born 1938), English footballer
 * Diana Temple (1925–2006), Australian pharmacologist
 * Floyd Temple (1926–2012), American baseball player and coach
 * Francisco P. Temple (1822–1880), Californian statesman and merchant
 * Frédéric Jacques Temple (1921–2020), French poet and writer
 * Frederick Temple (1821–1902), Archbishop of Canterbury
 * George Frederick James Temple (1901-1992), English mathematician
 * Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British prime minister
 * Henry Wilson Temple (1864–1955), American politician
 * James Temple (1606–1680), English Civil War soldier and regicide
 * Julien Temple (born 1953), English film director
 * Juno Temple (born 1989), English actress, daughter of Julien
 * Lew Temple (born 1967), American film actor
 * Luke Temple, American singer-songwriter
 * Nancy Temple, former in-house attorney at Arthur Andersen LLP involved in the Enron scandal
 * Nina Temple (born 1956), British communist politician
 * Owen Temple (born 1976), American musician
 * Peter Temple (1946–2018), Australian crime fiction writer
 * Peter Temple (regicide) (1599–1663), English Member of Parliament
 * Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet (1592–1653), English Member of Parliament
 * Philip Temple (born 1939), New Zealand fiction and non-fiction writer
 * Richard Carnac Temple (1850–1931), British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and anthropological writer
 * Robert K. G. Temple (born 1945), American author
 * Shirley Temple (1928–2014), American child actress, singer, dancer and ambassador
 * Simon Temple, the Elder (1780–1805) and Simon Temple, the Younger (1759–1815), English ship builders at Temple shipbuilders
 * Tony Temple (born 1985), American football player
 * Tracey Temple, former secretary to and lover of British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott
 * William Temple (governor) (1814–1863), Governor of Delaware
 * William Temple (bishop) (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury

Given name

 * Temple Grandin (born 1947), American professor, slaughterhouse designer and autism activist
 * Temple Hardy (1765–1814), British Royal Navy officer; grandson of Temple Stanyan
 * Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905), youngest son of Sam Houston
 * Temple F. Smith (born 1939), American professor of biomedical engineering
 * Temple Stanyan (1675–1752), English politician and historian of ancient Greece
 * Temple Tucker, American basketball player
 * Temple Hayes, born 1958, author, spiritual activist

Fictional characters

 * the title character of Charlotte Temple, a 1791 novel by Susanna Rowson
 * Claire Temple, a Marvel Comics character
 * Claire Temple (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the 21st-century film version of said character
 * the title character of Lucy Temple, Charlotte Temple's daughter in an 1828 novel by Rowson
 * Paul Temple, an amateur private detective created by Francis Durbridge
 * Temple Drake, a William Faulkner character