Pepper (name)

Pepper is a given name, nickname and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Abel C. Pepper (1793-1860), American politician and Indian agent
• Art Pepper (1925–1982), American jazz musician
• Barry Pepper (b. 1970), Canadian actor
• Belville Robert Pepper (1850-1888), British singer
• Bill Pepper (1895–1918), English footballer
• Charles T. Pepper (1830-1903), American physician
• Claude Pepper (1900–1989), U.S. Congressman from Florida
• Conor Pepper (b. 1994), Irish football (soccer) player
• Cuthbert Pepper, MP
• Daniel Pepper (b. 1989), English swimmer
• Dick Pepper (1889–1962), English musician and writer
• Dottie Pepper (b. 1965), American golfer
• George W. Pepper (1867–1961), U.S. Senator and prominent lawyer from Philadelphia
• Harry S. Pepper (1891–1970), English light music composer and BBC producer
• James Welsh Pepper (1853–1919), American music publisher and instrument maker; founded J.W. Pepper & Son in 1876
• Jim Pepper (1941–1992), American jazz musician
• John Henry Pepper (1821–1900), English scientist, inventor, and lecturer
• Nigel Pepper (b. 1968), English soccer player (Rotherham United, York City, Bradford City, Aberdeen FC)
• Pamela Pepper (b. 1964), American judge
• Sam Pepper (b. 1989), English YouTube personality
• Stephen Pepper (1891–1972) American philosopher
• Taybor Pepper (b. 1994), American football player
• Tom Pepper (b. 1975), computer programmer known for his collaboration with Justin Frankel on the invention of the Gnutella peer-to-peer system
• Wendy Pepper (b. 1964), American fashion designer
• William Pepper Jr. (1843–1898), Philadelphia physician and founder of the Free Library of Philadelphia
• William Francis Pepper (b. 1937), New York City lawyer

Given name or nickname

• Pepper Adams (1930–1986), American jazz saxophonist
• Pepper Binkley, American actress
• Pepper Keenan (b. 1967), American rock musician
• Pepper Martin (1904–1965), American baseball player
• Pepper MaShay (born 1953), American musician and singer-songwriter
• Pepper Paire (1924-2013), catcher and infielder from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Pepper Rodgers (1931–2020), American football player and coach
• Pepper Schwartz (born 1945), American sociologist and sexologist
• Pepper Somerset, female vocalist in the American Industrial band My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
• Pepper Winters, award-winning novelist

Fictional characters

• Floyd Pepper, puppet character in The Muppet Show
• Suzy Pepper, character in Glee
• Pepper Potts, fictional Marvel Comics character
• Pepper Steiger, fictional character in Neighbours
• Dr. Pepper, soda beverage
• Pepper Ann Pearson, the protagonist and title character in Disney's 1997 animated series, Pepper Ann
• Sgt. Leann "Pepper" Anderson, the central character in the 1970s Police Woman TV series, played by Angie Dickinson

See also

• Peppers (name)
• Pepper (disambiguation)