Pickering
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Several locations are called Pickering:
The are several people with the name Pickering:
- 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
