Whistler may refer to: * Someone who

whistles A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It is a type of fipple flute, and may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small sl ...

Places

Canada

Whistler, British Columbia Whistler (, ; , ) is a resort municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, approximately north of Vancouver and south of Pemberton, Britis ...

, 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 and BC Rail. Rocky Mountaineer runs a sin ...

** Whistler Secondary School *

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 ( Lillooet/Ucwalmícwts: Nsqwítsu) 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-Blac ...

, 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. The nearest higher neighbor is Indian ...

, a mountain in Alberta

United States

Whistler, Alabama Whistler was an unincorporated community in Mobile County, until the 1950s when it was annexed into neighboring Prichard. The founding of Whistler, in the 1850s, coincided with construction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The M & O, an early l ...

, an unincorporated town until the 1950s, when it was annexed into neighboring Prichard *

Whistler Geyser Whistler Geyser is a series of small steaming holes in the Joseph's Coat Springs Thermal Area on the western edge of the Mirror Plateau at the head of Broad Creek in Yellowstone National Park. The Joseph's Coat Springs Thermal Area is an isolated ...

, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming *

Whistler Mountain (Washington) Whistler Mountain is a mountain summit located in Chelan County of Washington state. The mountain is part of the Okanagan Range which is a sub-range of the North Cascades. Whistler Mountain is about two miles west of Washington Pass and on ...

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

Elsewhere

Whistler Nunatak The Sky-Hi Nunataks are a nunatak group long, located east of Grossman Nunataks and northeast of Merrick Mountains in Ellsworth Land, extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Mende, Mount Lan ...

, Palmer Land, Antarctica * Whistler River, New Zealand

People

Alwyne Michael Webster Whistler Major-General Alwyne Michael Webster Whistler, (30 December 1909 – 30 September 1993) was a British Army officer who served chiefly with the Royal Corps of Signals (abbreviated R Signals), spending many years in India and Germany. During the ...

(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.1'', ...

(1804–1881), James 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 Islan ...

(1944–2020), American ethnobotanist * Catherine Whistler 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 an American civil engineer best known for building steam locomotives and railroads. He is credited with introducing the steam whistle to American locomotives. In 1842, Tsar Nichola ...

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

Harold Whistler Group Captain Harold Alfred Whistler, (30 December 1896 – March 1940) was an English fighter pilot and flying ace in the First World War. Early life Alfred Harold Whistler was born in 1896 in Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, the son of Alfred ...

(1896–1940), English First World War fighter ace *

Harvey Samuel Whistler Harvey Samuel Whistler Jr. (September 7, 1907 – March 17, 1976) was an American violinist, editor, arranger, and composer of educational music studies for studio, homogenous, and heterogeneous class instrumental (strings and band) instruction. ...

(1907–1976), American violinist, pedagogue, composer, and arranger of music education method books *

Hugh Whistler Hugh Whistler (28 September 1889 – 7 July 1943), Zoological Society of London, F.Z.S., British Ornithologists' Union, M.B.O.U. was an England, English police officer and ornithologist who worked in India. He wrote one of the first field guides t ...

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

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

(1834–1903), American-born British painter, famous for the painting ''Whistler's Mother'' *

Lashmer Whistler General (United Kingdom), General Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler, (3 September 1898 – 4 July 1963), known as "Bolo", was a British Army officer who served in both the world wars. A junior officer during the First World War, during the Second Wor ...

(1898–1963), British Army general *

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 King's Gold Medal for Poe ...

(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 Whistler

Animals

* Whistler (bird), a group of passerine birds in the family

Pachycephalidae 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 69 species that are separated into fi ...

Goldeneye (duck) ''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 An ...

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

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

, 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 Graminoid, grasses and forbs to eat and rocky areas for cover. It is the ...

, American species of marmot

Arts and entertainment

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 (franchise), ''Blade'' film and Blade (TV series), television series. Developing the 1998 film ''Blade (1998 film), Blade'', screenwriter David S. Goyer created the character, and n ...

, 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 a children's television series created by Jeff Muncy and Alex Rockwell. The Pajanimals are characters that were made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop at The J ...

* Erwin "Whistler" Emory, a character in the film ''

Sneakers Sneakers (American English, US) or trainers (British English, UK), also known by a #Names, wide variety of other names, are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise, but are also widely used for everyday casual ...

'' * 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 Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of Work (thermodynamics), work and in the form of heat and l ...

Television

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

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''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 *

CKEE-FM CKEE-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 101.5 FM in Whistler, British Columbia, British Columbia with a Top 40/CHR format branded on-air as ''101.5 Whistler FM''. History Owned by Four Senses Entertainment Inc., the station was licen ...

, identified on air and in print as "101.5 Whistler FM", a radio station in Whistler, British Columbia * 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 successor to Windows 2000 for high-end and business users a ...

computer operating system *

Whistler Group The Whistler Group was an electronics company based in Bentonville, Arkansas, best known for its radar detectors. Whistler also manufactured power inverters, GPS navigation devices, inspection cameras, LED flashlights, vehicle dashboard camera ...

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