Whitney may refer to:
Film and television
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''Whitney'' (2015 film), a Whitney Houston biopic starring Yaya DaCosta
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''Whitney'' (2018 film), a documentary about Whitney Houston
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''Whitney'' (TV series), an American sitcom that premiered in 2011
Firearms
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Whitney Wolverine
The Whitney Wolverine is a semi-automatic .22 LR caliber pistol created in 1956. Notable for its advanced, "space-aged" looks and then-new aluminum construction, it has a 10-round magazine, a barrel long and a weight of only .
History
The Wolve ...
, a semi-automatic, .22 LR caliber pistol
*Whitney revolver, a gun carried by
Powell when he attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward
Music
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Whitney Houston, sometimes eponymously known as 'Whitney'
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''Whitney'' (album), an album by Whitney Houston
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Whitney (band), an American rock band
Places
Canada
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Whitney, Ontario
United Kingdom
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Witney, Oxfordshire
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Witney (UK Parliament constituency)
Witney is a county constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election, and was created for the 1983 general ...
, a constituency for the House of Commons
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Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire
United States
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Whitney, Alabama
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Whitney, California, a community in Placer County
* Whitney, California, former name of
Lone Pine Station, California
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Whitney, Idaho
Whitney is a small unincorporated community in the Cache Valley of Franklin County, Idaho, United States. It is part of the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Close to the border with Utah, Whitney lies on U.S. 91 between Presto ...
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Whitney, Maine
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Whitney, Michigan
Whitney is an unincorporated community in Menominee County, in the U.S. state of Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of ne ...
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Whitney Township, Michigan
Whitney Township is a civil township of Arenac County, Michigan, Arenac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,001 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the towns ...
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Whitney, Nebraska
Whitney is a village in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 77 at the 2010 census.
History
Originally called Dawes City, then Earth Lodge, it was renamed in honor of Peter Whitney, a railroad official. East of Whitney is th ...
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Whitney, Nevada
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Whitney Point, New York
Whitney Point is a village in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 964 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Binghamton Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name comes from Thomas and William Whitney, early developers.
The vil ...
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Whitney, Oregon
Whitney is an unincorporated community, also considered a ghost town, in Baker County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 7 southwest of Sumpter. It is on the North Fork Burnt River, near the Blue Mountains and Wallowa-Whitman National Fo ...
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Whitney, South Carolina
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Whitney, Texas
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Whitney, Washington Whitney is an extinct town in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
Whitney was originally called Padilla, and under the latter name was plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is ...
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Whitney, West Virginia
Whitney was an unincorporated community and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of Amer ...
Organizations
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Whitney (City Road, London)
Whitney was initially a shop established in 1875 in City Road, London, for the buying and selling of scientific apparatus, also using the name The Scientific Exchange. It later developed to include the sale of small engineering items including mod ...
, a shop founded in 1875
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Whitney Museum of American Art, a museum in New York City
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Hancock Bank
Hancock Whitney Corp. is a bank holding company headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi. It operates 237 branches in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. The bank is the official bank of the New Orleans Saints and issues the offici ...
or Whitney Bank
Schools
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Whitney High School (Cerritos, California)
Gretchen A. Whitney High School, called Whitney High School or WHS, is a public school in Cerritos, California serving grades 7–12. It is in the ABC Unified School District
The ABC Unified School District is a school district that is based ...
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Whitney High School (Rocklin, California)
Whitney High School is a public school located in the southern Placer County city of Rocklin, California, a settlement in the northern Sacramento metropolitan area. Whitney is one of two high schools in Rocklin Unified School District; its coun ...
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Whitney Humanities Center, an interdisciplinary institution at Yale University
Other uses
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Whitney (surname)
Whitney is an Old English surname that derives from the location of Whitney-on-Wye, Whitney in Herefordshire, England. It was first mentioned in the Domesday Book with the spelling Witenie. The name probably refers to the River Wye which runs throu ...
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Whitney (given name)
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Whitney (typeface)
Whitney is a family of humanist sans-serif digital typefaces, designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones. It was originally created for New York’s Whitney Museum as its institutional typeface. Two key requirements were flexibility for ...
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Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; ''Too-man-i-goo-yah'') is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of . It is in East–Central California, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tu ...
, the highest peak in the contiguous United States
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Whitney Awards, awards for achievement in Mormon fiction
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Whitney Biennial, a biennial art exhibition
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Whitney South Sea Expedition, a 1920–1932 scientific expedition to the South Pacific
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Whitney (Pokémon) Whitney may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Whitney'' (2015 film), a Whitney Houston biopic starring Yaya DaCosta
* ''Whitney'' (2018 film), a documentary about Whitney Houston
* ''Whitney'' (TV series), an American sitcom that premiered i ...
, a character in the ''Pokémon'' series
* Whitney, a character from ''
Barney & Friends''
See also
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David Whitney Building, skyscraper in Detroit, Michigan
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David Whitney House, historic residence in Detroit, Michigan
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J.H. Whitney & Company, a venture capital firm in the U.S.
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Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies. Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially airlines) and military aviat ...
, an aircraft engine maker
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Whitney & Company (Leominster, Massachusetts)
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Whitney umbrella
frame, Section of the surface
In geometry, the Whitney umbrella (or Whitney's umbrella, named after American mathematician Hassler Whitney, and sometimes called a Cayley umbrella) is a specific self-intersecting ruled surface placed in three dime ...
, in mathematics
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Whitney v. California
''Whitney v. California'', 274 U.S. 357 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of an individual who had engaged in speech that raised a threat to society. ''Whitney'' was explicitly overruled by ''Brandenburg v. ...
'' 274 U.S. 357 (1927), U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of a Communist Labor Party official
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