Temple (name)
People and fictional characters with the name Temple include:
Surname
- Bill Temple (footballer), English footballer
- Derek Temple, English footballer
- Diana Temple, Australian pharmacologist
- Floyd Temple, American baseball player and coach
- Francisco P. Temple, Californian statesman and merchant
- Frédéric Jacques Temple, French poet and writer
- Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, grandson of William Johnson Temple
- George Frederick James Temple, English mathematician
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British prime minister
- Henry Wilson Temple, American politician
- Herbert R. Temple Jr., American military officer
- James Temple, English Civil War soldier and regicide
- Julien Temple, English film director
- Juno Temple, English actress, daughter of Julien
- Lew Temple, 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, British communist politician
- Octavius Temple, British colonial official, son of William Johnson Temple
- Owen Temple, American musician
- Peter Temple, Australian crime fiction writer
- Peter Temple (regicide), English Member of Parliament
- Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament
- Philip Temple, New Zealand fiction and non-fiction writer
- Richard Carnac Temple, British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and anthropological writer
- Robert K. G. Temple, American author
- Shirley Temple, American child actress, singer, dancer and ambassador
- Simon Temple, the Elder and Simon Temple, the Younger, English ship builders at Temple shipbuilders
- Tony Temple, American football player
- Tracey Temple, former secretary to and lover of British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott
- William Temple (governor), Governor of Delaware
- William Temple (bishop), Archbishop of Canterbury, son of Frederick, great-grandson of William Johnson Temple
- William Johnson Temple, English clergiman known for life-long correspondence with James Boswell
Given name
- Temple Grandin, American professor, slaughterhouse designer and autism activist
- Temple Hardy, British Royal Navy officer; grandson of Temple Stanyan
- Temple Lea Houston, youngest son of Sam Houston
- Temple F. Smith, American professor of biomedical engineering
- Temple Stanyan, English politician and historian of ancient Greece
- Temple Tucker, American basketball player
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