Pickering

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Pickering may mean:

Places:

• Pickering, North Yorkshire, England
• Pickering, Ontario, Canada

People:

• Calvin Pickering (1976-present), American baseball player
• Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States
• Charles Pickering (naturalist) (1805-1878), physician and naturalist
• Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), astronomer
• William Henry Pickering (1858-1938), astronomer
• William Pickering (Singapore), first Protector appointed by the British administration of colonial Singapore to head the Chinese Protectorate.
• Samuel F. Pickering Jr., an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society
• William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004), former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), Appeals Court judge
• Charles W. "Chip" Pickering (born 1963), the judge's son and US Representative from Mississippi

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