Pickering (surname)
Pickering is an English toponymic surname derived from the town Pickering, North Yorkshire.
People
- Adrienne Pickering, Australian actress
- Alice Pickering, English tennis player
- Andrew Pickering, sociologist and science historian
- Bill Pickering (footballer, born 1901), English former footballer
- Calvin Pickering, American baseball player
- Charles Pickering (disambiguation)
- Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
- Chip Pickering, US Representative from Mississippi and son of Charles W. Pickering
- Christopher Pickering (MP), MP for Cumberland
- Chris Pickering, Australian alt.country musician
- Christopher Pickering, British businessman and philanthropist
- Craig Pickering, British sprinter
- David Pickering (rugby union), former Wales international rugby union player
- David Pickering (writer), reference books compiler
- Donald Pickering, English actor
- E. T. Pickering, American college baseball coach
- Edward Charles Pickering, astronomer
- Ernest Pickering, American fundamentalist leader
- Ernest Harold Pickering, British politician, Unitarian minister and professor
- Fred Pickering, English footballer
- Frederick Brian Pickering, British metallurgist
- George Pickering (disambiguation)
- Harry Pickering, English footballer
- Jack Pickering, English footballer
- James Pickering, English politician
- James Pickering (rugby league), Fijian rugby league player
- John Pickering (disambiguation)
- Karen Pickering, champion British swimmer
- Kedrick Pickering, British Virgin Islands politician
- Larry Pickering, Australian political cartoonist
- Liam Pickering, Australian Rules footballer
- Lionel Pickering, English owner of Derby County football club
- Mick Pickering, English former footballer
- Mike Pickering, DJ
- Nathan Pickering, American football player
- Nick Pickering, English footballer
- Norman C. Pickering, American engineer and musical instrument designer
- Philip D. Pickering, Baron of Newton
- Rex Pickering, New Zealand rugby union player
- Robert Young Pickering, British industrialist
- Robert Hugh Pickering, Canadian farmer, curler and political figure in Saskatchewan
- Ron Pickering, English athletics coach and commentator
- Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, British chemist and horticulturist
- Samuel Pickering, English professor on whom was based the character John Keating in the film Dead Poets Society
- Shaun Pickering, Welsh shot putter
- Stacey Pickering, Mississippi State Senator and State Auditor of Mississippi
- Thomas Pickering (martyr), English Benedictine lay brother and martyr
- Thomas G. Pickering, British physician and professor of medicine
- Thomas R. Pickering, American politician
- Timothy Pickering, third Secretary of State of the United States, Postmaster General and politician
- Tom Pickering (footballer), English footballer
- 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''