Whitney or Whittney 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, 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'' (album), an album by Whitney Houston
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Whitney (band)
Whitney is an American band from Chicago, which formed in 2015 and is signed to Secretly Canadian.Deusner, StephenBiography ''Secretly Canadian'' The band was formed shortly after the breakup of members Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich's band Smi ...
, an American rock band
* "Whitney", by Lil Pump from ''
Lil Pump
Gazzy Fabio Garcia (born August 17, 2000), known professionally as Lil Pump, is an American rapper. He rose to prominence as part of the SoundCloud rap scene in the late 2010s, gaining distinction for his minimalist music and rambunctious pu ...
'', 2017
* "Whitney", by Rêve from ''
Saturn Return
In horoscopic astrology, a Saturn return is an astrological transit that occurs when the planet Saturn returns to the same ecliptic longitude that it occupied at the moment of a person's birth. While the planet may not first reach the exact lo ...
'', 2022
Places
Canada
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Whitney, Ontario
United Kingdom
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Witney
Witney is a market town on the River Windrush in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is west of Oxford.
History
The Toponymy, place-name "Witney" is derived from the Old English for "Witta's island". The earliest kno ...
, 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
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Whitney-on-Wye is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, and approximately east from the border with Wales. The village is on the A438 road, on the River Wye, and west from Hereford. Parish population in 2011 United Ki ...
, Herefordshire
United States
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Whitney, Alabama
* 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 Pres ...
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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 peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United State ...
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Whitney Township, Michigan
Whitney Township is a civil township of Arenac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 907 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , ...
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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 ...
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Whitney, Nevada
Whitney (formerly East Las Vegas) is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 38,585 at the 2010 census.
Background
Stowell E. Whitney, a dairy farmer from Bunkerville, Nev ...
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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 ...
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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 Nationa ...
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Whitney, South Carolina
Whitney is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) adjacent to the city of Spartanburg in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census with a population of 4,409.
The ...
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Whitney, Texas
Whitney is a city in Hill County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,992 at the 2020 census.
The city is east of Lake Whitney.
History
Whitney was established in 1876 when the Houston and Texas Central Railroad (H&TC) built a line ...
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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 ) ( ...
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Whitney, West Virginia
Whitney was an unincorporated community and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the ...
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
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...
, a museum of American art 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 branch (banking), branches in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. The bank is the official bank of the New Orleans Saints and ...
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.
According to US News Report, as of 2024, Whitney High School is rank ...
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Whitney High School (Rocklin, California)
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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 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 through the area and ...
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Whitney (given name)
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Whitney (typeface)
Whitney is a family of Vox-ATypI classification#Humanist, 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 ...
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Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney (Paiute: ''Too-man-i-goo-yah'' or ''Too-man-go-yah'') is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, and the highest point in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of . It lies in East–Central Califor ...
, 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
The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was held in 1973. It is considered ...
, 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), a character in the ''Pokémon'' series
* Whitney, a character from ''
Barney & Friends
''Barney & Friends'' is an American children's television series created by Sheryl Leach targeted at children ages two to five. The flagship production of the ''Barney'' franchise, it originally aired on PBS under the PBS Kids brand from Ap ...
''
See also
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David Whitney Building
The David Whitney Building is a historic class-A skyscraper located at 1 Park Avenue (1550 Woodward Avenue from 1921 to 2014), on the northern edge of Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Grand Circus Park Historic District. The building stands ...
, skyscraper in Detroit, Michigan
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David Whitney House
The David Whitney House is a historic mansion located at 4421 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. The building was constructed during the 1890s as a private residence. It was restored in 1986 and is now a restaurant. The building was ...
, 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 RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially ...
, an aircraft engine maker
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Whitney & Company (Leominster, Massachusetts)
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Whitney umbrella
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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 su ...
, 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 clear and present danger to society.''Whitney v. California''274 U.S. 357 ...
'' 274 U.S. 357 (1927), U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of a Communist Labor Party official
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