Whitehead

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Whitehead can refer to:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Doers 1.2 Thinkers 1.3 Others 1.4 See also 2 Places 3 Things

[edit] People

[edit] Doers

• Alan Whitehead, a British Member of Parliament
• Axle Whitehead, Australian entertainer
• Cortlandt Whitehead (1842–1922), bishop of Pittsburgh
• Commander Edward Whitehead (1908–1978), spokesman and later president of Schweppes [1]
• Ennis Clement Whitehead (1895–1964), Lieutenant General U.S. Air Force [2]
• Gustave Whitehead (1874-1927), German–American aviation pioneer, alleged to have made the first powered airplane flight in 1901
• John C. Whitehead, statesman, philanthropist
• Thomas Whitehead, member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia (1873-1875)
• Joseph Whitehead (Congressman) (1867–1938), lawyer, politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia (1925–1930)

[edit] Thinkers

• Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), British philosopher and mathematician
• Colson Whitehead (b. 1969), author
• George William Whitehead, mathematician
• John Whitehead (explorer) (1860–1899), English explorer and naturalist.
• William Whitehead (1715-1785), Poet Laureate
• J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician and nephew of A. N. Whitehead
• Robert Whitehead, English engineer — entrepreneur, built first automobile torpedoes in the 1860s
• Frederick Whitehead, British painter.
• William Adee Whitehead (1810–1884), historian
• Joseph Whitehead (1814–1894), Canadian railway pioneer

[edit] Others

• Axle Whitehead (b. 1980), 2003 Australian Idol contestant
• J. Gordon Whitehead, Contributed to the death of Houdini
• John Whitehead (1929-1995), caligrapher of the Canadian proclamation 1982
• Steve Whitehead, Photorealist painter

[edit] See also

• James Whitehead (disambiguation)
• John Whitehead (disambiguation)

[edit] Places

• Canada:
  • Whitehead, Nova Scotia, on Tor Bay

• Northern Ireland
  • Whitehead, County Antrim, a village

• United States:
  • Cape Whitehead, Cumberland County, Maine 43.3844N 70.1131W
  • Lake Whitehead, Reservoir Napa County, California 38.3529N 122.2755W
  • Whitehead, Alabama, Lauderdale County, Alabama 34.5317N 87.1938W
  • Whitehead, Mississippi, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi 33.5055N 90.1755W
  • Whitehead, North Carolina, Alleghany County, North Carolina 36.2802N 81.0910W
  • Whitehead, Tennessee, Marshall County, Tennessee 35.2848N 86.4719W
  • Whitehead, Texas, Hunt County, Texas 32.5205N 96.1536W

• Other
  • John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[edit] Things

• A non inflamed pore blocked with sebum, a symptom of acne vulgaris
• Whitehead (bird) is a passerine bird.
• Capo Bianco (capoccia), or "white head", a boss with white hair, mafia
• USS Whitehead (1861–1865), Civil War, 136-ton screw steam gunboat

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