Whittier

Whittier may refer to:

Places

• Whittier, Alaska
  • Whittier Airport
• Whittier, California, named for John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Whittier College, a private liberal arts college
    • Whittier Law School
  • Whittier High School
  • Whittier Hills, a local name for the western end of the Puente Hills
  • Whittier Narrows, a water gap between the Puente Hills and the Montebello Hills
• Whittier, Denver, a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado
• Whittier, Iowa
• Whittier, Minneapolis, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Whittier, North Carolina

People with the surname

• Charles A. Whittier (1840–1908), American Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
• Edward N. Whittier (1840–1902), American soldier
• Helen Augusta Whittier (1846–1925), American editor, lecturer, teacher, clubwoman, businesswoman
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet and abolitionist
• Max Whittier (1867–1928), American real estate developer
• Nancy Whittier (born 1966), sociologist
• Pauline Whittier (1876–1946), American golfer
• Sumner G. Whittier (1911–2010), American politician from Massachusetts

Fictional characters

• Whittier Smith, main protagonist of the film Bring It On Again, played by Anne Judson-Yager
• Pollyanna Whittier, title character of Eleanor H. Porter's novel Pollyanna (1913)

Other uses

• The Whittier, a high rise residential complex and former hotel in Detroit, Michigan
• Whittier Line, a former Pacific Electric train route in California
• Whittier Fire, a 2017 wildfire in Santa Barbara County, California
• Whittier Boulevard, a street in Los Angeles, California
• Whittier (horse), an Australian Thoroughbred race horse

See also

• Mount Whittier (disambiguation)
• Whittier House (disambiguation)