Whittaker is a surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning the white acre, and given name, also spelled "Whitaker" and "Whitacre," and may refer to:
As a surname
Aaron Whittaker, New Zealand rugby player
Bill Whittaker (footballer), English footballer
Bill Whittaker (bowls), New Zealand lawn bowler
Bob Whittaker U.S. Congressman
Charles Evans Whittaker (1901–1973), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme court from 1957 to 1962
David Whittaker (video game composer) (born 1957), computer game programmer
Dick Whittaker (1934–1998), Irish footballer
E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956), English mathematician
Enos Whittaker, English footballer
Frank Whittaker, Indian bishop
Gavin Whittaker, Canadian politician
George Whittaker, Canadian Politician
Jack Whittaker (Canadian politician), Canadian politician
Jack Whittaker (lottery winner) (born 1947), American US$315 million lottery winner
James Whittaker, Shaker leader
Jim Whittaker (born 1929), American mountaineer, first American to summit Mount Everest (1963), twin brother of Lou
Jodie Whittaker, English actress
John Whittaker (UKIP politician) (born 1945), British member of the European Parliament
John Avery Whittaker, fictional character in the Adventures in Odyssey radio series
John Macnaughten Whittaker, English mathematician
Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, 19th century West Point student and victim of assault
Joseph Whittaker (botanist) (1813–1894), English botanist and collector of Australian plants
Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, U.S. blues musician
Lou Whittaker (born 1929), American mountaineer, high-altitude and glacier-travel guide, twin brother of Jim
Maria Whittaker (born 1969), former English glamour model
Rebecca Whittaker, Canadian politician
Red Whittaker, robot scientist
Robert Whittaker (1920–1980), American vegetation ecologist
Roger Whittaker (born 1936), Kenyan singer/songwriter and musician of British descent
Sally Whittaker (born 1963), British soap opera actress
Sammy Whittaker (1888–1952), English footballer
Steven Whittaker (born 1984), Scottish footballer
Stuart Whittaker (born 1975) English football player
Thomas Whittaker (martyr) English Catholic martyr
Thomas Palmer Whittaker, British politician
Tom Whittaker (footballer) (1898–1956), English football player, trainer, and manager
Tom Whittaker (mountaineer) (born 1948), mountaineer, first disabled person to summit Mount Everest
Walter Whittaker (1878 - 1917), English football goalkeeper with Newton Heath (Manchester United), Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Derby County
Victor P. Whittaker (born 1919) a British biochemist who pioneered the studies on the subcellular fractionation of the brain
William G. Whittaker (1876–1944), English composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer
As a given name
Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), American writer, witness in Alger Hiss espionage case
The surname is well represented in Lanarkshire, Derbyshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire.
