Temple (name)

Not to be confused with the term temple name of Asian royalty.

People and fictional characters with the name Temple include:

Surname

• Bill Temple (footballer)
• Derek Temple, English football player
• Diana Temple (1925–2006), Australian pharmacologist
• Dina Temple-Raston, Belgian-American journalist
• Floyd Temple (1926–2012), American baseball player and coach
• Francisco P. Temple (often F.P.F. Temple, 1822–1880), Californian statesman and merchant.
• Frédéric Jacques Temple (born 1921), French poet and writer
• Frederick Temple (1821–1902), Archbishop of Canterbury
• George Frederick James Temple (1901-1992), English mathematician
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British Prime Minister
• Henry Wilson Temple (1864–1955), American Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania
• James Temple English civil war soldier and regicide
• Julien Temple (born 1953), English film director
• Juno Temple (born 1989), English actress, daughter of Julien
• Keith Temple, British screenwriter
• Lew Temple, American film actor
• Luke Temple, American singer-songwriter
• Nancy Temple, former in-house attorney at Arthur Andersen LLP
• Nina Temple, British political figure
• Owen Temple, American musician
• Peter Temple (1946–2018), Australian writer
• Peter Temple (regicide), English official
• Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris (1938–2018), Welsh politician
• Philip Temple, New Zealand writer
• Richard Carnac Temple (1850–1931), British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, anthropological writer
• Robert K. G. Temple, American author
• Shirley Temple (1928–2014), child actor and ambassador
• Simon Temple (1780–1805) ship builder
• Tony Temple, American football player
• Tracey Temple, former secretary to British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott
• William Temple (governor) (1814–1863), Governor of Delaware
• William Temple (bishop) (Archbishop) (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury

Given name

• Temple Grandin (born 1947), American professor, slaughterhouse designer and autism activist
• Temple Hardy (1765–1814), British Royal Navy officer; grandson of Temple Stanyan
• Temple Hayes, Unity minister in Florida
• Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905), youngest son of Sam Houston
• Temple F. Smith (born 1939), American professor of biomedical engineering
• Temple Stanyan (1675–1752), English politician and historian of ancient Greece
• Temple Tucker, American basketball player

Name variations

• Stephan Templ, Austrian author and journalist, co-author of Unser Wien (Our Vienna)

Fictional characters

Family name

• Claire Temple, a Marvel Comics character
  • Claire Temple (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the 21st-century film version of said character

Given name

• Temple Drake, a William Faulkner character