Whitehead (surname)
Whitehead is a surname. Recorded in a number of spellings including Whithead, Whitehed, Whithed, and Whitsed, this surname is of English origins. It usually derives from the Old English pre–7th century word "hwit" meaning white, plus "heafod", a head, combined to form a descriptive nickname for someone with white hair.
Notable persons named Whitehead
Several people
- Several people named Alan Whitehead
- Several people named Charles Whitehead
- Several people named David Whitehead
- Several people named George Whitehead
- Several people named Henry Whitehead
- Several people named James Whitehead
- Several people named John Whitehead
- Several people named Joseph Whitehead
- Several people named Peter Whitehead
- Several people named Richard Whitehead
- Several people named Robert Whitehead
- Several people named Rowland Whitehead
- Several people named Thomas Whitehead
- Several people named William Whitehead
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- Adam Whitehead, British swimmer
- Adrian Whitehead, Australian rules footballer
- Agathe Whitehead, British heiress, first wife of Georg von Trapp of the Trapp Family Singers
- Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician
- Alfred Whitehead, English composer, organist, choirmaster and music educator, active in Canada
- Annie Whitehead, English jazz trombone player
- Axle Whitehead, Australian entertainer
- Barb Whitehead, American golfer
- Ben Whitehead, English voice actor
- Bob Whitehead, American game designer and programmer
- Bob Whitehead (soccer), 20th century American soccer player
- Bruce Whitehead, American politician
- Bud Whitehead, American football player
- Bus Whitehead, American basketball player
- Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player
- Chris Whitehead, English rugby union player
- Christian Whitehead, Australian video game developer
- Chryssie Whitehead American actress, singer and dancer
- Cindy Whitehead, American skateboarder
- Clay T. Whitehead, United States government official in charge of telecommunications
- Clive Whitehead, English footballer - Bristol City and West Bromwich Albion
- Colson Whitehead, American author
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- Dariq Whitehead, American professional basketball player
- Dean Whitehead, English footballer
- Derek Whitehead, English rugby league footballer
- Don Whitehead, American journalist
- Donald R. Whitehead, American entomologist
- Donald S. Whitehead, American politician from Idaho
- Edward Whitehead, spokesman and later president of Schweppes
- E. T. Whitehead, British political activist
- Edgar Whitehead, Rhodesian politician
- Elliott Whitehead, English rugby league player
- Emily Whitehead, Australian artistic gymnast
- Ennis Whitehead, Lieutenant General U.S. Air Force
- Fionn Whitehead, English actor
- Frances Whitehead, British secretary and personal assistant to John Stott
- Frank Whitehead (American politician), American politician from Florida
- Frank Whitehead (Canadian politician), Canadian politician
- Frederick Whitehead,, English landscape artist and illustrator
- Frederick Wilson Whitehead,, English organist, composer and music teacher
- Gary Whitehead, American poet and painter
- Geoffrey Whitehead, English actor
- Gill Whitehead British executive
- Gillian Whitehead, New Zealand composer
- Graham Whitehead, British racing driver
- Gregory Whitehead, American writer, radiomaker and audio artist
- Gustave Whitehead, aviation pioneer who claimed to have made the first powered airplane flight
- Hal Whitehead, Canadian biologist
- Hope Whitehead, American politician
- Hugh Whitehead, prior of the Benedictine monastery at Durham, England
- Ian Whitehead, Scottish footballer and manager
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- J. Gordon Whitehead, a man who punched Houdini before the magician could brace himself, which is speculated to have caused Houdini's death
- J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician
- Jamal Whitehead, American lawyer
- Jason John Whitehead, Canadian stand-up comedian, active in Britain
- Jay Whitehead, American author and publisher
- Jef "Wrest" Whitehead, American Metal Musician & Tattoo artist
- Jennifer Whitehead, American volleyball player and coach
- Jermaine Whitehead, American football player
- Jerome Whitehead, American basketball player
- Jonathan Whitehead, English composer
- Jordan Whitehead, American football player
- Lees Whitehead, English cricketer
- Lucky Whitehead, American football player
- Luke Whitehead, American basketball player
- Luther Whitehead, English cricketer
- Martha Whitehead, Texas State Treasurer
- Maurice Whitehead, British historian and archivist
- Max Whitehead, Australian rugby league footballer
- Maxey Whitehead, American voice actress
- Mike Whitehead, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Milt Whitehead, Canadian baseball player
- Naomi Whitehead, American supercentenarian who is the oldest living American person.
- Neville Whitehead (bassist), New Zealand jazz bassist and luthier
- Nick Whitehead, Welsh sprinter
- Nikki Whitehead, American mother murdered by her twin daughters Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah
- Nicole Whitehead, American model and Playboy Playmate
- Norman Whitehead (1915–1983, English landscape painter
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- O.Z. Whitehead, American actor and author
- Paul Whitehead, British painter and graphic artist
- Paxton Whitehead, British actor
- Phil Whitehead, English footballer
- Phillip Whitehead, British politician, television producer and writer
- R. Whitehead (cricketer), English cricketer between 1785 and 1800
- Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, founder of the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony, New York
- Rex Whitehead, Australian cricket umpire
- Ron Whitehead, American poet
- Stanley Whitehead, New Zealand politician
- Stanley Whitehead (physicist), British physicist
- Steve Whitehead, English photorealist painter
- Stuart Whitehead, English footballer
- Tahir Whitehead, American football player
- Terrell Whitehead, American football player
- Terrence Whitehead, American football player
- Þór Whitehead, Icelandic historian
- Thora Whitehead, Australian shell collector and malacologist
- Tim Whitehead (ice hockey), American ice hockey coach
- Tim Whitehead (rugby player), South African rugby union player
- Walter Whitehead, English surgeon