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Historical figures

* Anselm Tupper (1763–1808), Continental Army officer, pioneer to the Ohio Country, son of Benjamin Tupper *
Archelaus Tupper The Haldimand Affair (also called the Haldimand or Vermont Negotiations) was a series of negotiations conducted in the early 1780s (late in the American Revolutionary War) between Frederick Haldimand, the British governor of the Province of Quebe ...
(died 1781), sergeant in the Vermont militia, the circumstances of whose death in a skirmish with a British military unit caused a scandal when it became known that Vermont was engaged in separate peace negotiations with the British *
Benjamin Tupper Benjamin Tupper (March 11, 1738 – June 7, 1792) was a soldier in the French and Indian War, and an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, achieving the rank of Brevet (military), brevet Brigadier general (United ...
(1738–1792), Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country * Sir Charles Tupper (1821–1915), Prime Minister of Canada :*
Frances Tupper Frances Amélia Tupper, Lady Tupper (née Morse; March 14, 1826 – May 11, 1912) was the wife of Charles Tupper, Sir Charles Tupper, the sixth Prime Minister of Canada. They had six children together, three boys and three girls. Legacy Tw ...
, his wife :* Sir
Charles Hibbert Tupper Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper (August 3, 1855 – March 30, 1927) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Family, early career Tupper was the second son of Sir Charles Tupper, a physician, leading Conservative politician, and Canadian diplomat. ...
(1855–1927), their son, Solicitor General and Minister of Justice of Canada :* William Johnston Tupper (1862–1947), also their son, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba *
Charles F. Tupper Charles F. Tupper (November 8, 1852 – December 14, 1929) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York. Life Tupper was born in Kirkwood, New York on November 8, 1852, the son of Mason Ferris Tupper and Juliet Evens. Tupp ...
(1852–1929), American lawyer and politician *
Clarrie Tupper Clarence William 'Clarrie' Tupper (1908-1985) was an Australian rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirte ...
(1908-1985), Australian rugby league footballer * Earl Silas Tupper (1907–1983), American businessman, inventor of Tupperware *
Edward Tupper Edward Tupper (12 April 1872 – 22 October 1942) was a British trade unionist active in the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union, who was particularly prominent in the 1911 strike in Cardiff. Born in Worthing in West Sussex, Tupper joined ...
(1871 or 1872–1942), British Trade unionist * Ferdinand Brock Tupper (1795–1874), British historian * Jeff Tupper, the creator of Tupper's self-referential formula * Rev. Henry Martin Tupper (1831–1893), founder of Shaw University *
Loretta Clemens Tupper Loretta Nellie Clemens Tupper (May 6, 1906 – September 17, 1990) was an American singer, pianist and vaudevillian and radio actress., who later added television and film appearances to her impressive repertoire. In her early career she was kno ...
(1906-1990), American singer, pianist, vaudevillian, and radio actress *
Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper (17 July 1810 in London – 29 November 1889 in Albury, Surrey) was an English writer, and poet, and the author of ''Proverbial Philosophy''. Early life Martin Farquar was the eldest son of Dr. Martin Tupper (1780–1 ...
(1810–1889), English poet and antiquarian * Stanley Roger Tupper (1921–2006), American politician, United States Congressman from Maine *
William Vaughn Tupper William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conqu ...
(1835–1898), Brooklyn financier, creator of the Tupper Scrapbooks


Fictional characters

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Alf Tupper ''Alf Tupper'' is the protagonist of a British comic strip, ''The Tough of the Track'' (or ''Alf Tupper: The Tough of the Track''), created by Bill Blaine (probably a pseudonym for William Blaine, head of DC Thomson comics), written by Gilbert La ...
, comic strip character *
Amos Tupper ''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The serie ...
, sheriff on U.S. television's ''Murder, She Wrote'' * George Tupper, in P.G. Wodehouse's stories *Tommy Tupper, from '' The Benny Hill Show'' *Martin Tupper, from U.S. television's ''Dream On'' *Hannah Tupper, in '' The Witch of Blackbird Pond'' * Tupper the Bulldog, mascot of Bryant University *Tupper, a meth dealer from ''The Green Hornet''


Locations

* Tupper Lake, New York * Tuppers Plains, Ohio *
Point Tupper, Nova Scotia Point Tupper is a rural community in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, on the Strait of Canso, in western Cape Breton Island. History Extensive land grants in the area were acquired in 1863 by Henry Nicholas Paint, of Belle Vue, Canso, member of Pa ...


Ships

* CCGS Tupper


Short

* Short for Tupperware


See also

*
Tup (disambiguation) Tup or TUP may refer to: * Tup, an uncastrated male sheep ** Tupping, copulation in sheep, also the sheep mating season *Tup, the head of a steam hammer or the falling weight of a pile driver * Ṭup (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing * ' ...
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