Whitney

Whitney may refer to:

People

• Whitney (surname)
• Whitney (given name)

Places

Canada

• Whitney, Ontario

United Kingdom

• Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire
• Witney, Oxfordshire

United States

• Whitney, California, a community in Placer County
• Whitney, a neighborhood in Beverly, Visalia, California
• Whitney, California, former name of Lone Pine Station, California
• Whitney, Idaho
• Whitney, Maine
• Whitney, Nebraska
• Whitney, Nevada
• Whitney, Oregon
• Whitney, Texas
  • Lake Whitney, a popular lake in Texas named after the nearby town
• Whitney Township, Michigan
• Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the continental United States
• Whitney High School (Cerritos, California)
• Whitney High School (Rocklin, California)
• David Whitney Building, skyscraper in Detroit, Michigan
• David Whitney House, historic residence in Detroit, Michigan

Organizations

• J.H. Whitney & Company, the oldest venture capital firm in the U.S.
• Pratt & Whitney, aircraft engine maker
• Whitney & Company (Leominster, Massachusetts)
• Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City
• Whitney National Bank, which has branches in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida

Events

• Whitney Biennial, a biennial art exhibition

Television

• Whitney (TV series), an American sitcom that premiered on NBC in the fall of 2011

Music

• Whitney Houston, an American contemporary R&B singer and actress
• Whitney (album), by American singer Whitney Houston

Mathematics

• Whitney umbrella in mathematics

Fictional

• Whitney Dean, a fictional character in BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Whitney (Pokémon), a Gym Leader in the Pokémon series
• Whitney Russell, a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Passions

Other

• Whitney Awards given for achievement in Mormon fiction
• Whitney South Seas Expedition, scientific expedition to the South Pacific (1920–1932)
• Whitney v. California 274 U.S. 357 (1927), U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of a Communist Labor Party official