Pickering is a British surname.
People with Pickering as a surname:
Adrienne Pickering (born 1981), Australian actress
Alice Pickering (1860-1939), English tennis player
Andrew Pickering, sociologist and science historian
Bill Pickering (born 1901), former English professional footballer
Calvin Pickering (born 1976), American baseball player
Charles Pickering (naturalist) (1805–1878), physician and naturalist
Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), Appeals Court judge
Charlie Pickering (born 1977), Australian comedian
Charles W. "Chip" Pickering (born 1963), the judge's son and US Representative from Mississippi
Chris Pickering, Australian alt.country musician
Craig Pickering (born 1986), British sprinter
Donald Pickering (born 1933), English actor
E. T. Pickering (1888–1961), American college baseball coach
Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer
Ernest Pickering (1928–2000), American fundamentalist leader
Frederick Brian Pickering, British metallurgist
Sir James Pickering, British politician of the fourteenth century
Jack Pickering (1908–1977), English footballer (soccer) who played for Sheffield United F.C.
Joanna Pickering British actress, writer, feminist, academic
John Pickering (1737–1805), American judge
John Pickering (football manager) (born 1944), English football manager
John E. Pickering (27 April 1918 – 19 September 1997) a pioneer in the field of radiobiology, aviation medicine and space medicine and a Colonel in the United States Air Force
Karen Pickering (born 1971), champion British swimmer
Kedrick Pickering, a British Virgin Islands politician
Larry Pickering (born 1942), Australian political cartoonist
Liam Pickering (born 1968), Australian Rules footballer
Lionel Pickering (1932–2006), English owner of Derby County football club
Nick Pickering (born 1963), English footballer
Philip D. Pickering (born 1948), Baron of Newton
Ron Pickering (1930-1991), English athletics coach, commentator
Spencer U. Pickering, (1858–1920) a physical chemist
Samuel F. Pickering Jr. (born 1941), an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society
Blessed Thomas Pickering (1621–1679), English Benedictine lay brother and martyr
Thomas R. Pickering (born 1931), American politician
Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States, Postmaster General, and Massachusetts statesman
William Hayward Pickering (1910–2004), Rocket Man, New Zealander and former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), astronomer
William Pickering (governor) (1798–1873), English-born American politician
William Pickering (fiction), director of the National Reconnaissance Office in Dan Brown's book Deception Point
William A. Pickering (1840–1907), first Protector appointed by the British government to administer the Chinese Protectorate in colonial Singapore
William Pickering (publisher) (1796–1854), British publisher and bookseller
Johnny-Normand Pickering (historian & scholar) (1965-), Canadian speak-french of Quebec historian and scholar
