# Pickering (surname)

Pickering is an English toponymic surname derived from the town Pickering, North Yorkshire.

## People

* Adrienne Pickering (born 1981), Australian actress
* Alice Pickering (1860–1939), English tennis player
* Andrew Pickering, sociologist and science historian
* Bill Pickering (footballer, born 1901), English former footballer
* Calvin Pickering (born 1976), American baseball player
* Charles Pickering (disambiguation)
* Charlie Pickering (born 1977), Australian comedian
* Chip Pickering (born 1963), US Representative from Mississippi and son of Charles W. Pickering
* Christopher Pickering (MP) (c. 1556–1621), MP for Cumberland
* Chris Pickering, Australian alt.country musician
* Christopher Pickering (1842–1920), British businessman and philanthropist
* Craig Pickering (born 1986), British sprinter
* David Pickering (rugby union) (born 1960), former Wales international rugby union player
* David Pickering (writer) (born 1958), reference books compiler
* Donald Pickering (1933–2009), English actor
* E. T. Pickering (1888–1961), American college baseball coach
* Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer
* Ernest Pickering (1928–2000), American fundamentalist leader
* Ernest Harold Pickering (1881-1957), British politician, Unitarian minister and professor
* Fred Pickering (1941–2019), English footballer
* Frederick Brian Pickering (1927–2017), British metallurgist
* George Pickering (disambiguation)
* Harry Pickering (born 1998), English footballer
* Jack Pickering (1908–1977), English footballer
* James Pickering (died c. 1398), English politician
* James Pickering (rugby league) (born 1966), Fijian rugby league player
* Joanna Pickering British actress, writer, feminist, academic
* John Pickering (disambiguation)
* Karen Pickering (born 1971), champion British swimmer
* Kedrick Pickering, British Virgin Islands politician
* Larry Pickering (1942—2018), Australian political cartoonist
* Liam Pickering (born 1968), Australian Rules footballer
* Lionel Pickering (1932–2006), English owner of Derby County football club
* Mick Pickering (born 1956), English former footballer
* Mike Pickering (born 1954), DJ
* Nathan Pickering (born 2000), American football player
* Nick Pickering (born 1963), English footballer
* Philip D. Pickering (born 1948), Baron of Newton
* Rex Pickering (1936–2017), New Zealand rugby union player
* Robert Young Pickering (1849–1931), British industrialist
* Robert Hugh Pickering (1932–2015), Canadian farmer, curler and political figure in Saskatchewan
* Ron Pickering (1930–2014), English athletics coach and commentator
* Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering (1858–1920), British chemist and horticulturist
* Samuel Pickering (born 1941), English professor on whom was based the character John Keating in the film Dead Poets Society
* Shaun Pickering (1961–2023), Welsh shot putter
* Stacey Pickering (born 1968), Mississippi State Senator and State Auditor of Mississippi
* Timothy Pickering (July 17, 1745 – January 29, 1829) was the third U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
* Thomas Pickering (martyr) (1621–1679), English Benedictine lay brother and martyr
* Thomas G. Pickering (1940–2009), British physician and professor of medicine
* Thomas R. Pickering (born 1931), American politician
* Tom Pickering (footballer) (1906-?), English footballer
* Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States, Postmaster General and politician
* William Pickering (disambiguation), several people

## Fictional characters

* Colonel Hugh Pickering, in the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its various adaptations
* Charles Pickering, the villain of the novella "The Gingerbread Girl" by Stephen King
* Nina Pickering, a lead character in the British television series Being Human