Whipple is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Abraham Whipple (1733–1819), American Revolutionary War naval commander A.B.C. Whipple (1918–2013), American journalist, editor, historian and author Allen Whipple (1881–1963), American surgeon Amiel Weeks Whipple (1818–1863), American military engineer and surveyor Beverly Whipple, American author, sexologist and academic Charles W. Whipple (1805-1856), American lawyer, politician and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court Chris Whipple, journalist, author, documentary film producer Clara Whipple (1887–1932), silent film actress Daley E. Whipple (1915–2002), American politician Diane Whipple (1967–2001), American victim of a fatal dog attack Dinah Whipple (1760-1846), leader in Portsmouth, New Hampshire's free Black community Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), English writer of popular fiction Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), American essayist and critic Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall, née 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 George C. Whipple (1866–1924), American civil engineer and expert in the field of sanitary microbiology, inventor of Whipple's index and co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health Gwen Whipple (born 1966), American civic leader and educator Guy Montrose Whipple (1876–1941), American educational psychologist Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901), first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, US Inez Whipple Wilder (born Inez Luanne Whipple, 1871–1929), American zoologist John Adams Whipple (1822–1891), American inventor and early photographer Joseph Reed Whipple (1842–1912), American hotel proprietor Joseph Whipple (1662–1746), merchant in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and militia colonel Joseph Whipple Jr. (1687–1750), merchant and deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of the above Joseph Whipple III (1725–1761), merchant and deputy governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of the above Mark Whipple (born 1957), American football player and coach Mary Margaret Whipple (born 1940), American politician Maurine Whipple (1903–1992), American novelist Philippa Whipple, British barrister and judge Prince Whipple (1750-1796), African-American slave and later freedman, participant in the American Revolution Robert Stewart Whipple (1871–1953), businessman in the British scientific instrument trade, collector of science books and scientific instruments and author Sam Whipple (1960-2002), American actor Squire Whipple (1804–1888), American civil engineer known as the father of iron bridge building in America Thomas Whipple Jr. (1787–1835), American politician Walter Whipple (born 1943), translator William Whipple (1730–1785), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence William Denison Whipple (1826–1902), brigadier general in the Union army during the American Civil War William Whipple Jr. (1909–2007), brigadier general in the U.S. army William M. Whipple (?–1918), member of the Arizona House of Representatives, father of W. D. Whipple W. D. Whipple, state senator from Arizona, son of William M. Whipple