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Whitney MacMillan
Whitney MacMillan (1929–2020) was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Cargill from 1976 to 1995, the last family member to run the firm.
Whitney Miller
Whitney Miller, also Whitney Miller-Humphrey, is an American chef and cookbook author who won the first US MasterChef in 2010 at age 22, then was no longer the youngest winner.
Whitney Newey
Whitney Newey is an American econometrician at MIT, best known as co-creator of the Newey–West estimator, a widely used method for computing regression standard errors.
Whitney Port
Whitney Eve Port, American reality TV personality and designer, original The Hills cast member (2006), star of The City (2008-2010), founder of Whitney Eve, host of the With Whit podcast.
Whitney Rose (TV personality)
Whitney Rose (born 1986) is an American reality TV personality, original cast member of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City since 2020, founder of Wild Rose Beauty, ex-Mormon, and third cousin of Heather Gay; she filed for divorce from Justin Rose in October 2026.
Whitney Springs
Whitney Springs (working title) is an undated Paramount musical comedy directed by Trey Parker, written by Vernon Chatman, and produced by Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free, Parker, and Matt Stone, about a slave-reenactor intern; delayed from July 2025 and March 2026.
Whitney Sudler-Smith
Whitney Sudler-Smith (born 1968, Washington, D.C.) is an American filmmaker and guitarist, creator and executive producer of Bravo's Southern Charm and its Savannah and New Orleans spin-offs, and director of the 2010 documentary Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston.
Whitney Tilson
Whitney Tilson, American value investor, founder of Kase Capital Management and Empire Financial Research, Stansberry editor, education reformer, and 2025 NYC Democratic mayoral candidate.
Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb (Whitney Alyse Webb), American independent investigative journalist, founder of Unlimited Hangout, former MintPress News senior reporter (2017–2020), and author of the two-volume 2022 book One Nation Under Blackmail on Epstein, intelligence, and organized crime.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Whitney Wolfe Herd, also known as Whitney Wolfe, is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Tinder, founded the women-message-first dating app Bumble, and became the youngest self-made female billionaire when Bumble went public in 2021.
Whitney Young
Whitney M. Young Jr. (1921-1971), American social worker and civil rights leader, headed the National Urban League 1961-1971, joined the Big Six, proposed the Domestic Marshall Plan, and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Whitstable
Whitstable, Kent seaside town (Domesday Witenestaple), famous for oysters, the 1830 Crab and Winkle railway, Invicta locomotive, Deane brothers diving, working harbour, and the annual Oyster Festival.
Whitstable Pearl
Whitstable Pearl is a 2021 British Acorn TV crime drama based on Julie Wassmer's novels, starring Kerry Godliman as detective Pearl Nolan; three six-episode seasons, filmed in Kent, cancelled in 2026.
Whitsun
Whitsun is the English name for Pentecost, the Western Christian feast kept on the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples.
Whitsunday Island (island, Australia)
Whitsunday Island, largest of the 74 Whitsundays islands off Queensland, Australia; home of Whitehaven Beach and Hill Inlet, Ngaro traditional land, protected in Whitsunday Islands National Park, boat access only.
Whitsunday Islands
The Whitsunday Islands are over 90 continental islands off central Queensland, part of the Cumberland group, within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Six national parks, Ngaro occupation for 9,000 years, Whitehaven Beach, humpback calving grounds, access from Airlie Beach.
Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961), American writer, TIME senior editor, and former Soviet military intelligence courier, defected in 1938 and in 1948 accused Alger Hiss of espionage, producing the Pumpkin Papers; Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950.
Whitten Peak
Whitten Peak (Argentine form Whitten, monte) is a peak in Antarctica at 63°25'S, 57°04'W, a SCAR Peak (2d) named for Robert Wakeham Whitten, Eagle's first officer in Operation Tabarin (1944-45).
Whittier College
Whittier College is a private liberal arts college in Whittier, California, founded in 1887 and named for poet John Greenleaf Whittier; its alumni include President Richard Nixon, class of 1934.
Whittier, Alaska
Whittier, Alaska: a small city on Passage Canal in Prince William Sound, 60 miles southeast of Anchorage, founded as a secret WWII U.S. Army port in 1941-1943, reached through the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, with most residents living in Begich Towers.
Whittier, California
Whittier, California: charter city in Los Angeles County about 12 miles southeast of Los Angeles, incorporated 1898, founded by Quakers and named for poet John Greenleaf Whittier; about 87,000 residents.
Whittington
Whittington is an English place name shared by several villages: Whittington, Shropshire, with Whittington Castle and a Roman marching camp; Whittington Court Roman villa, Gloucestershire; and Great Whittington, Northumberland, near Hadrian's Wall.
Whittington Hospital
The Whittington Hospital, Archway, London N19 5NF: NHS acute hospital run by Whittington Health NHS Trust, CQC-rated Good, maternity requires improvement; site dates to 1473; £60m maternity and £80m power redevelopment underway.
Whittlebury
Whittlebury is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, near Towcester on the edge of Whittlewood Forest, with 618 residents in 2020, an Iron Age hillfort origin, a royal council held by Athelstan c.930, and the Grade II St Mary's Church.
Whittlesea
Whittlesea is a township 36 km northeast of Melbourne on the Plenty River, and the City of Whittlesea, a fast-growing Victorian municipality of 229,396 people (2021) formed as a shire in 1875 and proclaimed a city in 1988.
Whitton
Whitton: name of several British settlements. The chief subject is Whitton, Vale of Glamorgan, an Iron Age enclosed farmstead (about 50 BC onward) that became a Roman villa, excavated by M.G. Jarrett 1965-1970; also Whitton, Ipswich (Castle Hill villa) and Whitton, Richmond.
Whitton Lodge Roman Villa
Whitton Lodge Roman Villa is a Roman villa site in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, occupied in ten phases from the later 1st century CE to about 340.
Whitworth quick-return mechanism
The Whitworth quick-return mechanism is a planar linkage converting constant crank rotation into reciprocating motion with a slow cutting stroke and fast return, used in shapers and slotters.
Whitworth rifle
The Whitworth rifle was a British muzzle-loading percussion rifle with a hexagonal bore, designed by Joseph Whitworth in the 1850s and used by Confederate sharpshooters in the American Civil War.
Whitzard (白泽)
Whitzard (白泽) is an AI security research effort based at Fudan University. It developed AgentGuard, a zero-trust security layer for AI agents, and co-drafted China's generative-AI requirements.