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People

* Whipple (surname), a list of people with the surname * Whip Jones (1909–2001), American ski industry pioneer, founder, developer and original operator of the Aspen Highlands ski area in Aspen, Colorado * Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833–1904), American businessman, grandfather of H. P. Lovecraft, whom he raised


Fictional characters

* Mr. Whipple, in American television ads for Charmin toilet paper * Whipple Jones (''The Bold and the Beautiful''), in the American soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' *Wallace V. Whipple, protagonist of " The Brain Center at Whipple's", a 1964 episode of the American television series ''The Twilight Zone'' *"Whipple the Happy Dragon", a character in a 2017 episode of ''
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'', an animated miniseries


Places in the United States

* Whipple, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Whipple, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Whipple Lakes, Crow Wing County, Minnesota * Whipple Lake, Clearwater County, Minnesota * Whipple Mountains, a mountain range in southeastern California * Whipple Run, a stream in Ohio


In the military

*, three U.S. Navy ships named after Abraham Whipple * Fort Whipple, Arizona, a fort established in 1863 in Arizona Territory near Prescott *Fort Whipple, historical name for the United States Army's
Fort Myer Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army Military base, post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and ...


Science, technology and medicine

* Whipple (crater), a crater on the Moon * 36P/Whipple, a periodic comet discovered by Fred Whipple * ''Whipple'' (spacecraft), a proposed space telescope in the 2010s *
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); it is their largest field installation outside of their main site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
, an astronomical observatory in Arizona, United States * Whipple Museum of the History of Science, a science museum of the University of Cambridge * Whipple shield, a type of hypervelocity impact shield * Whipple procedure, a surgery to remove the head of the pancreas, due to pancreatic cancer


See also

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Whipple's disease Whipple's disease is a rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium '' Tropheryma whipplei''. First described by George Hoyt Whipple in 1907 and commonly considered as a gastrointestinal disorder, Whipple's disease primarily causes ...
, a rare bacterial disease (first described by George Whipple) * Whipple procedure, surgical removal of pancreatic cancer (devised by Allen Whipple) *
Whipple's triad Whipple's triad is a collection of three signs (called Whipple's criteria) that suggests that a patient's symptoms result from hypoglycaemia that may indicate insulinoma. The essential conditions are symptoms of hypoglycaemia, low blood plas ...
, conditions necessary for proving a diagnosis of hypoglycemia (by Allen Whipple) {{disambiguation, geo