Whittlesey (disambiguation)

Whittlesey (historically known as Whittlesea or Witesie) is an ancient Fenland market town east of Peterborough, in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire in England.

Whittlesey may also refer to:

People

• Abigail Goodrich Whittlesey (1788–1858), American educator, publisher, editor
• Asaph Whittlesey (1826-1879), American state representative from Wisconsin and first settler of Ashland, Wisconsin
• Charles Whittlesey, a number of people with the name
  • Charles Whittlesey (geologist) (1808–1886), American geologist and archeologist
    • Whittlesey culture, an obsolete group of indigenous people named after the geologist
  • Charles Frederick Whittlesey (1867–1941), American architect
  • Charles White Whittlesey (1884–c. 1921), American soldier
  • Charles Whittlesey (lawyer) (1819-1874), Connecticut lawyer, Union Soldier and briefly Virginia Attorney General
• Elisha Whittlesey (1783–1863), American lawyer, civil servant and U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Faith Whittlesey (1939–2018), American politician and White House Senior Staff member
• Julian Whittlesey (1905–1995), American architect
• Samuel Whittlesey Dana (1760–1830), American lawyer and politician
• Sarah J. C. Whittlesey (1824–1896), American author, poet, hymn writer
• William Whittlesey (disambiguation), a number of people with the name
  • William Whittlesey, a 14th-century archbishop of Canterbury.
  • William A. Whittlesey (1796–1866), American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio

Fictional characters

• Diane Whittlesey, a fictional character played by Edie Falco on the television program Oz

Places

• Whittlesey Creek, a creek in northern Wisconsin
• Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge, a federally managed wetland complex in northern Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Superior
• Lake Whittlesey, a proglacial lake that was an ancestor of present-day Lake Erie.
• Whittlesey Mere, was an area of open water in the Fenland area of the county of Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England
• Whittlesey Museum, a social history museum located on the ground floor of the early 19th century Town Hall in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, UK
• Whittlesey Rural District, a rural district in the Isle of Ely from 1894 to 1926

Others

• Whittlesey Athletic F.C., a football club based in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England

See also

• Whittlesea (disambiguation)