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A. Chapin Whiting (1825–1899), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly •
Alan Whiting, British screenwriter •
Albert N. Whiting (1917–2020), President and Chancellor of North Carolina College •
Albert Whiting (1866–1946), Australian cricketer •
Algernon Whiting (1861–1931), English first-class cricketer and tea planter •
Allen S. Whiting (1926–2018), American political scientist specializing in China •
Amber Whiting, American basketball coach •
Anderson Whiting, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly •
Ant Whiting, writer/producer signed to Sony/ATV Music Publishing •
Arthur Batelle Whiting (1861–1936), American teacher, pianist, composer and writer on music •
Arthur Whiting (1878–1938), British politician •
Barbara Whiting (1931–2004), American actress •
Beatrice Blyth Whiting (1914–2003), American anthropologist •
Betty Whiting (1925–1967), American baseball player •
Bob Whiting (1883–1917), aka Pom Pom Whiting, English footballer •
Brandon Whiting (born 1976), American former football player •
Brendan Whiting 1936–2009, Australian author and researcher •
Calvin Whiting (born 1995), South African-born American rugby union player •
Carl Whiting (born 1981), New Zealand sailor •
Chancey Whiting (1819–1902), Latter Day Saint leader •
Charles Whiting (1926–2007), British writer and military historian •
Charles Whiting (cricketer) (1888–1959), English cricketer •
Charles S. Whiting (1863–1922), associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court •
Charlie Whiting (1952–2019), FIA Formula One race director •
Chris Whiting (born 1966), Australian politician •
Cliff Whiting (1936–2017), New Zealand Maori artist •
Ed Whiting (1860–?), American baseball player •
Elizabeth Whiting (born 1952), stage costume designer from New Zealand •
Erle Whiting (1876–1958), fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) •
Fred Whiting (born 1938), American former politician •
Frederic Allen Whiting (1873–1959), advocate for education, pioneer for public outreach and philanthropist •
Frederic Whiting (painter) (1874–1962), English painter •
Gains Whiting (1865–1946), New Zealand trade unionist and political activist •
George Whiting (1840–1923), American composer of classical music •
George A. Whiting (1884–1943), American vaudeville song and dance man •
Gordon Whiting (1942–2018), judge of the Environment Court of New Zealand •
Graham Whiting (born 1946), New Zealand former rugby footballer •
Henry H. Whiting (1923–2012), member of the Supreme Court of Virginia •
Isaac Whiting (1842–1922), the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) •
Jack Whiting (cricketer) (1894–1975), English cricketer •
Jack Whiting (actor) (1901–1961), American actor, singer and dancer • James Whiting (born 1949), known professionally as
Sugar Blue, American blues harmonica player •
James R. Whiting (1803–1872), New York judge •
Jeff Whiting (born 1972), American theater director, choreographer, performer and entrepreneur •
Jennifer Whiting, American philosopher •
Jesse Whiting (1879–1937), Major League Baseball pitcher •
Jillian Whiting, Australian news presenter •
Jim Whiting (born 1951), British artist and inventor •
John Lanyon Whiting (1851–1922), Canadian lawyer and politician •
John Whiting (1917–1963), English actor, dramatist and critic •
John Whiting (anthropologist) (1908–1999), American sociologist and anthropologist •
John Whiting (MP) (died 1430), English Member of Parliament and lawyer •
Julian Whiting (1912–2004), seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) •
Justin Rice Whiting (1847–1903), Michigan politician •
Ken Whiting (born 1974), Canadian kayaker •
Kenneth Whiting (1881–1943), United States Navy officer and American pioneer of naval aviation •
Leonard Whiting (born 1950), British actor •
Lilian Whiting (1847–1942), American journalist and author •
Lorenzo D. Whiting (1819–1889), American politician •
Lynn S. Whiting (1939–2017), trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses •
Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), American popular music and country music singer •
Margaret Whiting (actress) (1933–2023), British film and television actress •
Marian Muriel Whiting (1881–1978), British horticulturalist and plant collector •
Mark Whiting (born 1964), American writer, director, designer and actor •
Mary Collins Whiting (1835–1912), American lawyer, businesswoman and teacher •
Michael F. Whiting, American director of the Brigham Young University DNA Sequencing Center •
Michael Whiting (born 1960), American former football fullback in the United States Football League •
Milton Whiting (1922–2010), Australian politician •
Napoleon Whiting (1910–1984), African-American character actor •
Nathan Whiting (1724–1771), soldier and merchant in colonial America •
Nathaniel Whiting (mill owner) (1609–1682), a settler of Dedham, Massachusetts •
Nathaniel N. Whiting (1792–1872), American Baptist preacher •
Norman Whiting (1920–2014), English cricketer •
Onslow Whiting (1872–1937), English sculptor and teacher •
Pat Whiting (1940–2010), American activist and politician •
Paul Whiting, New Zealand yacht designer during the 1970s and early 1980s •
Percy H. Whiting, American author, newspaper reporter and professional speaker •
Peter Whiting (footballer), New Zealand football goalkeeper •
Peter Whiting (rugby union) (born 1946), New Zealand rugby union player •
Richard Whiting (abbot) (died 1539), last abbot of Glastonbury Abbey before Dissolution of the Monasteries •
Richard Whiting (rugby league), English rugby league player •
Richard A. Whiting (1891–1938), writer of popular songs, father of Margaret Whiting and Barbara Whiting Smith •
Richard H. Whiting (1826–1888), U.S. Representative from Illinois •
Robert Whiting (born 1942), American author and journalist •
Ros Whiting (1958–2024), New Zealand accounting academic •
Roy Whiting (born 1959), English murderer •
Rutherford Lester Whiting (1930–2014), Canadian politician •
Ryan Whiting (born 1986), American track and field athlete •
Samuel Whiting, Jr. (1633–1733), First Minister of Billerica, Massachusetts •
Sarah Frances Whiting (1847–1927), American physicist and astronomer •
Sarah Whiting (born 1964), American architect, critic and Dean of the Rice University School of Architecture •
Scott Whiting (born 1978), Australian former rugby league footballer •
Stephen N. Whiting, United States Space Force lieutenant general •
Tossie Whiting (1879–1958), American educator and Dean of Women at Virginia State University •
Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, feminist scholar •
Val Whiting (born 1972), former professional basketball player •
W. H. Whiting Jr. (1862–1949), twice acting president of Hampden–Sydney College •
Walter Whiting (1888–1952), English cricketer •
Warren Whiting (1816–1897), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly •
William Whiting (footballer), English footballer •
William Whiting (poet) (1825–1878), English writer and hymnist wrote the words to
Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn) •
William Whiting (Massachusetts politician) (1813–1873), American congressman from Massachusetts •
William Whiting II (politician) (1841–1911), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts •
William Austin Whiting (1855–1908), American lawyer and politician •
William Dean Whiting (1815–1891), American silversmith and jeweler •
William F. Whiting (1864–1936), Massachusetts politician, United States Secretary of Commerce 1928–1929 •
William H. C. Whiting (1824–1865), American Civil War army officer •
Zach Whiting (born 1987), Iowa state senator ==Fictional characters==