Whipple may refer to:

People

* Whipple (surname) (including a list of people with the surname) * Whip Jones (1909–2001), American ski industry pioneer, founder, developer and original operator of the Aspen Highlands ski area in Aspen, Colorado * Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833–1904), American businessman, grandfather of H. P. Lovecraft, whom he raised

Fictional characters

Mr. Whipple Mr. George Whipple (also known as George the Grocer) is a fictional supermarket manager featured in television commercials, radio, and print advertisements that ran in the United States and Canada from 1964 to 1985 for Charmin toilet paper. Typica ...

, in American television ads for Charmin toilet paper * Whipple Jones (''The Bold and the Beautiful''), in the American soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful''

Places in the United States

Whipple, Ohio Whipple is an unincorporated community in southern Salem Township, Washington County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it once had a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail se ...

, an unincorporated community *

Whipple, West Virginia Whipple is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Whipple is located on West Virginia Route 612, southwest of Oak Hill, West Virginia, Oak Hill. External ...

, an unincorporated community *

Whipple Lakes Whipple Lakes is a group of named lakes in Crow Wing County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populo ...

, Crow Wing County, Minnesota *

Whipple Lake Whipple Lake is a lake in Clearwater County, Minnesota, in the United States. Whipple Lake was named for Henry Benjamin Whipple, an Episcopal bishop who worked closely with Ojibwe and Sioux Indians. See also *List of lakes in Minnesota This is ...

, Clearwater County, Minnesota * Whipple Mountains, a mountain range in southeastern California *

Whipple Run Whipple Run is a stream located entirely within Washington County, Ohio. According to tradition, Whipple Run was named for Abraham Whipple, an explorer who fell in the water while crossing over a fallen tree. See also *List of rivers of Ohio Oh ...

, a stream in Ohio

In the military

*, three U.S. Navy ships named after Abraham Whipple * Fort Whipple, Arizona, a fort established in 1863 in Arizona Territory near Prescott *Fort Whipple, historical name for the United States Army's Fort Myer

Science

* Whipple (crater), a crater on the Moon *

36P/Whipple 36P/Whipple is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It is the lowest numbered Quasi-Hilda comet. The comet nucleus The nucleus is the solid, central part of a comet, once termed a ''dirty snowball'' or an ''icy dirtball''. A cometary nuc ...

, periodic comet discovered by Fred Whipple * ''Whipple'' (spacecraft), proposed space telescope in the 2010s *

Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomy, astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); it is their largest field installation outside of their main site in Cambridge, Mass ...

, an astronomical observatory in Arizona, United States * Whipple Museum of the History of Science, a science museum of the University of Cambridge *

Whipple shield The Whipple shield or Whipple bumper, invented by Fred Whipple, is a type of hypervelocity impact shield used to protect crewed and uncrewed spacecraft from collisions with micrometeoroids and orbital debris whose velocities generally range betw ...

, a type of hypervelocity impact shield *

Whipple procedure A pancreaticoduodenectomy, also known as a Whipple procedure, is a major surgical operation most often performed to remove cancerous tumours from the head of the pancreas. It is also used for the treatment of pancreatic or duodenal trauma, or chro ...

, a surgery to remove the head of the pancreas, due to pancreatic cancer