Pickering
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Pickering may mean:
Places:
- Pickering, North Yorkshire, England
- Pickering, Ontario, Canada
- Calvin Pickering (1976-present), American baseball player
- Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States
- Charles Pickering (naturalist) (1805-1878), physician and naturalist
- Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), astronomer
- William Henry Pickering (1858-1938), astronomer
- William Pickering (Singapore), first Protector appointed by the British administration of colonial Singapore to head the Chinese Protectorate.
- Samuel F. Pickering Jr., an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society
- Spencer U. Pickering, (1858-1920) a physical chemist.
- William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004), former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), Appeals Court judge
- Charles W. "Chip" Pickering (born 1963), the judge's son and US Representative from Mississippi
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