Whipple (surname)

Whipple is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Abraham Whipple (1733–1819), American Revolutionary War naval commander
 * A.B.C. Whipple (1918–2013), American journalist, editor, historian and author
 * Allen Whipple (1881–1963), American surgeon
 * Amiel Weeks Whipple (1818–1863), American military engineer and surveyor
 * Beverly Whipple, American author, sexologist and academic
 * Charles W. Whipple (1805-1856), American lawyer, politician and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
 * Clara Whipple (1887–1932), silent film actress
 * Daley E. Whipple (1915–2002), American politician
 * Diane Whipple (1967–2001), American victim of a fatal dog attack
 * Dinah Whipple (1760-1846), leader in Portsmouth, New Hampshire's free Black community
 * Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), English writer of popular fiction
 * Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), American essayist and critic
 * Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall, née Whipple (1805–1878), abolitionist, poet, novelist, editor, botanist, spiritualist medium, and advocate of women's, voters', and workers' rights
 * Francis John Welsh Whipple (1876–1943), British mathematician and meteorologist
 * Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004), American astronomer
 * George Whipple (1878–1976), American physician, biomedical researcher, Nobel Prize winner
 * George C. Whipple (1866–1924), American civil engineer and expert in the field of sanitary microbiology, inventor of Whipple's index and co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health
 * Guy Montrose Whipple (1876–1941), American educational psychologist
 * Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901), first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, US
 * Inez Whipple Wilder (born Inez Luanne Whipple, 1871–1929), American zoologist
 * John Adams Whipple (1822–1891), American inventor and early photographer
 * Joseph Whipple (1662–1746), merchant in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and militia colonel
 * Joseph Whipple Jr. (1687–1750), merchant and deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of the above
 * Joseph Whipple III (1725–1761), merchant and deputy governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of the above
 * Mark Whipple (born 1957), American football player and coach
 * Mary Margaret Whipple (born 1940), American politician
 * Maurine Whipple (1903–1992), American novelist
 * Philippa Whipple, British barrister and judge
 * Prince Whipple (1750-1796), African-American slave and later freedman, participant in the American Revolution
 * Robert Stewart Whipple (1871–1953), businessman in the British scientific instrument trade, collector of science books and scientific instruments and author
 * Sam Whipple (1960-2002), American actor
 * Squire Whipple (1804–1888), American civil engineer known as the father of iron bridge building in America
 * Thomas Whipple Jr. (1787–1835), American politician
 * Walter Whipple (born 1943), translator
 * William Whipple (1730–1785), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence