List of Famous people with last name Whittaker

Ian Whittaker is a British set decorator and former actor. He has won an Academy Award and has been nominated three more times in the category Best Art Direction.

Prof John Macnaghten Whittaker FRS FRSE LLD was a British mathematician and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1953 to 1965.

Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962. After working in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri, he was nominated for the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Whittaker to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 1957, he won confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States, thus becoming the first individual to serve as a judge on a federal district court, a federal court of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. During his brief tenure on the Warren Court, Whittaker emerged as a swing vote. In 1962, he suffered a nervous breakdown and resigned from the Court. After leaving the Supreme Court, he served as chief counsel to General Motors and frequently criticized the Civil Rights Movement and the Warren Court.

John Whittaker is a real estate British businessman. He is the Chairman of the Peel Group, a property investment enterprise that mainly invests in North West England. Although publicity-shy, he has been named as one of the most influential business leaders for Greater Manchester and the North West by the Manchester Evening News (2007) and was named the most influential northerner by The Big Issue magazine in 2010.

David Whittaker is known for numerous video game music which he wrote in most of the 1980s and early 1990s, for many different formats.