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)