Whistler may refer to: * Someone who whistles

Places

Canada

Whistler, British Columbia Whistler ( Lillooet/Ucwalmícwts: Cwitima, ; Squamish/Sḵwx̱wú7mesh: Sḵwiḵw, ) is a resort municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Moun ...

, a resort town **

Whistler railway station Whistler station is a railway station located in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, along the BC Rail line. The operations of the line are now run by Canadian National via a long-term lease between CN & BC Rail. Rocky Mountaineer runs a sin ...

Whistler Secondary School Whistler Secondary (or WSS) is a public high school in Whistler, British Columbia, and is part of School District 48 Sea to Sky. It is located opposite the subdivision of Alpine Meadows, north of the Whistler townsite adjacent to the Sea to Sky H ...

Whistler Blackcomb Whistler Blackcomb is a ski resort located in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. By many measures it is the largest ski resort in North America and has the greatest uphill lift capacity. It features the Peak 2 Peak Gondola for moving between ...

, a ski resort in British Columbia *

Whistler Mountain Whistler Mountain is a mountain in the Fitzsimmons Range of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, located on the northwestern edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is the location of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort and the town of Whist ...

, British Columbia *

The Whistlers (Alberta) The Whistlers is a mountain summit located in Jasper National Park, in the Trident Range of the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. The municipality of Jasper is situated 7 kilometres to the northeast. Its nearest higher peak is Indian Peak ...

, a mountain in Alberta

United States

* Whistler, Alabama, an unincorporated town until the 1950s, when it was annexed into neighboring Prichard * Whistler Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming *

Whistler Mountain (Washington) Whistler Mountain is a mountain summit located in Chelan County, Washington, Chelan County of Washington (U.S. state), Washington state. The mountain is part of the Okanagan Range which is a sub-range of the North Cascades. Whistler Mountai ...

, a mountain summit in Washington state * Whistler Range, Nevada, a mountain range

Elsewhere

* Whistler Nunatak, Palmer Land, Antarctica * Whistler River, New Zealand

People with the surname

* Alwyne Michael Webster Whistler (1909–1993), British Army general *

Anna McNeill Whistler Anna Matilda (née McNeill) Whistler (September 27, 1804 – January 31, 1881) was the mother of American-born, British-based painter James McNeill Whistler, who made her the subject of his famous painting ''Arrangement in Grey and Black No ...

(1804–1881), James Abbott McNeill Whistler's mother *

Arthur Whistler Wayne Arthur Whistler (October 12, 1944 – April 2, 2020) was an American ethnobotanist, academic and writer. Whistler, an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii's Department of Botany, was an expert on tropical flora of the Pacific Isla ...

(1944–2020), American ethnobotanist *

Catherine Whistler Catherine Whistler is an Irish art historian and curator, specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, a supernumerary fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History ...

is a British art historian and curator *

Charles Whistler The Reverend Charles Watts Whistler MRCS, LSA, (14 November 1856 – 10 June 1913) was an English writer of historical fiction, who set his work between 600 and 1100 CE, usually based on early Saxon chronicles, Norse or Danish sagas and archaeolog ...

(1856–1913), British writer *

George Washington Whistler George Washington Whistler (May 19, 1800 – April 7, 1849) was a prominent American civil engineer best known for building steam locomotives and railroads. He is credited with introducing the steam whistle to American locomotives. In 1842, Tsa ...

(1800–1849), American civil engineer and railroad builder *

Hugh Whistler Hugh Whistler (28 September 1889 – 7 July 1943), F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. was an English police officer and ornithologist who worked in India. He wrote one of the first field guides to Indian birds and documented the distributions of birds in notes in ...

(1889–1943), English police officer and ornithologist *

James Abbott McNeill Whistler James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834July 17, 1903) was an American painter active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading pr ...

(1834–1903), American-born British painter, famous for ''

Whistler's Mother ''Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1'', best known under its colloquial name ''Whistler's Mother'' or ''Portrait of Artist's Mother'', is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler in 1871. ...

'' * General Sir Lashmer Whistler (1898–1963), soldier *

Laurence Whistler Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler (21 January 1912 – 19 December 2000) was a British glass engraver and poet. He was both the first President of the British Guild of Glass Engravers and the first recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Po ...

(1912–2000), British glass engraver and poet *

Rex Whistler Reginald John "Rex" Whistler (24 June 190518 July 1944) was a British artist, who painted murals and society portraits, and designed theatrical costumes. He was killed in action in Normandy in World War II. Whistler was the brother of poet and ...

(1905–1944), British painter *

William McNeill Whistler William McNeill Whistler (July 22, 1836 – February 27, 1900) was an American physician and a medical army officer for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He was the younger brother of artist James McNeill Whistler. Early life W ...

(1836–1900), physician, brother of James Abbott McNeill Whistler

People with the middle name

Kenneth Whistler Street Sir Kenneth Whistler Street, (28 January 1890 – 15 February 1972) was the 10th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales. These offices were held before him by his father Sir Philip Whi ...

, (1890–1972), Australian Chief Justice, son of Philip Whistler Street * Laurence Whistler Street, (1926–2018), Australian Chief Justice, son of Kenneth Whistler Street *

Philip Whistler Street Sir Philip Whistler Street, (9 August 1863 – 11 September 1938) was the 8th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales. He was the first member of the Street family to attain these vice ...

(1863–1938), Australian Chief Justice

Animals

Whistler (bird) The Pachycephalidae are a family of bird species that includes the whistlers, shrikethrushes, and three of the pitohuis, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. The family includes 64 species that are separated into fiv ...

, a group of passerine birds in the family Pachycephalidae *

Goldeneye (bird) ''Bucephala'' is a genus of diving ducks found in the Northern Hemisphere. Taxonomy The genus ''Bucephala'' was introduced in 1858 by American naturalist Spencer Baird with the bufflehead as the type species. The genus name is derived from Anci ...

, a Northern Hemisphere seaduck in the genus ''Bucephala'' *

Groundhog The groundhog (''Marmota monax''), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. The groundhog is a lowland creature of North America; it is found through mu ...

, American species of marmot *

Hoary marmot The hoary marmot (''Marmota caligata'') is a species of marmot that inhabits the mountains of northwest North America. Hoary marmots live near the tree line on slopes with grasses and forbs to eat and rocky areas for cover. It is the largest Nor ...

, American species of marmot

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Whistler (Buffyverse), a character in the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' *

Abraham Whistler Abraham Whistler is a fictional character appearing in the ''Blade'' film and television series. Developing the 1998 film ''Blade'', screenwriter David S. Goyer created the character, and named him after Abraham van Helsing, the nemesis of Co ...

, mentor to the Marvel Comics character Blade in film and animated continuity * Coach Whistler, a mascot of The Land of Play in

Pajanimals ''Jim Henson's Pajanimals'' (a portmanteau of the words ''pajamas'' and ''animals'') is an American- British children's TV series created by Jeff Muncy and Alex Rockwell. The Pajanimals are characters that were made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop ...

* Erwin "Whistler" Emory, a character in the film '' Sneakers'' * James Whistler (''Prison Break'' character), mysterious inmate in the television series ''Prison Break''s third season

Music

Whistler (band) Whistler were a British indie band who released two albums on the Wiiija label. Formed by Ian Dench after leaving EMF, the band consisted of Dench, Kerry Shaw (who had previously released a dance single through EMI called "Could This Be Love") ...

, a UK indie band * "The Whistler" (song), a 1977 single by the British rock group Jethro Tull * "The Whistler", Fourplay's instrumental song on its 2008 album ''

Energy In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of hea ...

Television

* ''Whistler'' (TV series), set in Whistler, British Columbia * ''The Whistler'' (TV series), television show of the 1950s

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* CKEE-FM, identified on air and in print as "101.5 Whistler FM", a radio station in Whistler, British Columbia * ''The Whistler'' (novel), a 2016 novel by John Grisham * ''The Whistler'' (radio series), a mystery drama radio show and film noir series ** ''The Whistler'' (1944 film), the first of eight films in the series

Other uses

Whistler (radio) A whistler is a very low frequency (VLF) electromagnetic (radio) wave generated by lightning. Originally published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, California (1965). Frequencies of terrestrial whistlers are 1 kHz to 30 kHz, wi ...

, a very low frequency radio phenomenon caused by lightning * Whistler, the development codename for the Microsoft

Windows XP Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Windows 2000 for high-end and ...

computer operating system * Whistler Group, a company specializing in electronics and automotive laser/radar detection systems * , a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919