Pickering

Several locations are called Pickering:

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• Pickering, North Yorkshire, England
• Pickering, Ontario, Canada

The are several people with the name Pickering:

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• Timothy Pickering (1745?1829), third Secretary of State of the United States
• Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), astronomer
• William Henry Pickering (1858-1938), astronomer
• William Pickering, first Protector appointed by the British administration of colonial Singapore to head the Chinese Protectorate.
• Samuel F. Pickering Jr., an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society
• William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004), former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory