People

Family name

• Abraham Whipple (1733–1819), American revolutionary naval commander
• Allen Whipple (1881–1963), American surgeon, eponym of the Whipple procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy) and Whipple's triad
• Amiel Weeks Whipple (1816–1863), American military engineer and surveyor
• Diane Whipple (1968–2001), fatal victim of a dog attack in San Francisco
• Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), American essayist and critic
• Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall, born Frances Harriet Whipple (1805–1878), abolitionist, poet, novelist, editor, botanist, spiritualist medium, and advocate of women's, voters', and workers' rights
• Francis John Welsh Whipple (1876–1943), British mathematician and meteorologist
• Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004), American astronomer
• George Whipple (1878–1976), American physician, biomedical researcher, Nobel Prize winner
• Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901), first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, U.S.A.
• John Adams Whipple (1822–1891), American inventor and early photographer
• Manley Nehemiah Whipple (1814–1843), American folk art portraitist and stone sculptor
• Mary Margaret Whipple (1940– ), Virginia politician
• Prince Whipple, eighteenth century African, participant in American Revolution
• Jessica Whipple, Daughter of Sherman Whipple, economist who coined the term NEBBIES
• Walter Whipple, Associate Teaching Professor of Polish, author of many English translations of Polish poetry
• William Whipple (1730–1785), signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire

Given name

• Whipple Van Ness Jones, skier

Fictional

• Mr. Whipple, fictional character in American television ads for Charmin toilet paper

Things

• Fort Whipple, fort established in 1863 in Arizona Territory near Prescott (after Amiel Weeks Whipple)
• Triple Whipple Truss, bridge design used in the 1800s
• USS Whipple, designation of three U.S. Navy ships (after Abraham Whipple)
• Whipple Mountains, mountain range in southeastern California, U.S.A

Science

• Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, astronomical observatory in Arizona, U.S.A.
• Whipple's index, measure used in demography (study of human population dynamics)
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science, science museum of the University of Cambridge
• Whipple shield, meteor shield for spacecraft invented by Fred Whipple
• 36P/Whipple, periodic comet discovered by Fred Whipple

Medicine

• Whipple's disease, a rare bacterial disease (first described by George Whipple)
• Whipple procedure, surgical removal of pancreatic cancer (devised by Allen Whipple)
• Whipple's triad, conditions necessary for proving a diagnosis of hypoglycemia (by Allen Whipple)