Jay Vivian Chambers, known as Whittaker Chambers, was an American editor who denounced his Communist spying and became respected by the American Conservative movement during the 1950s.
James W. Whittaker, also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American mountaineer from Seattle, Washington.
Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962. After working in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri, he was nominated for the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Whittaker to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 1957, he won confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States, thus becoming the first individual to serve as a judge on a federal district court, a federal court of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. During his brief tenure on the Warren Court, Whittaker emerged as a swing vote. In 1962, he suffered a nervous breakdown and resigned from the Court. After leaving the Supreme Court, he served as chief counsel to General Motors and frequently criticized the Civil Rights Movement and the Warren Court.
Roger Whittaker is a British singer-songwriter and musician, who was born in Nairobi. His music is an eclectic mix of folk music and popular songs in addition to radio airplay hits. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability as well as his guitar skills.
Robert Harding Whittaker was a distinguished American plant ecologist, active in the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the first to propose the five-kingdom of organisms taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera in 1969. He also proposed the Whittaker Biome Classification, which categorized biome-types upon two abiotic factors: temperature and precipitation.
Steven Gordon Whittaker is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for Hibernian.
Robert Russell Whittaker is a former U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Although he was president for less than three years, John F. Kennedy appointed two men to the Supreme Court of the United States: Byron White and Arthur Goldberg. Given the advanced age of Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter at the time of Kennedy's inauguration, speculation abounded over potential Kennedy nominations to the Supreme Court from the start of his presidency.
Yoel Romero Palacio is a Cuban mixed martial artist and former freestyle wrestler. He is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, competing in the Middleweight division. As a freestyle wrestler, Romero was a world gold medalist and an Olympic silver medalist. He won six world and Olympic medals in total. As of July 26, 2018, he is ranked the #1 contender in the official UFC middleweight rankings.
Foswhitt Jer'ald "Fozzy" Whittaker Jr. is an American football running back and kick returner for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas. He is from Pearland, Texas.
John Albert Whittaker is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, who played at international level for the New Zealand national rugby league team and the Cook Islands.
Jason Peter Whittaker is an English cricketer. Whittaker is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Farnworth, Lancashire.
Thomas "Tom" Whittaker was a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s. He played at club level for Wigan, as a prop, hooker, second-row, or loose forward, i.e. number 8 or 10, 9, number 11 or 12, or 13.
Robert John Whittaker is a New Zealand-born Australian professional mixed martial artist fighting out of Menai, Sydney. He is signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and is the current middleweight champion. A professional MMA competitor since 2009, Whittaker was a contestant on the first series of The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes and won the welterweight tournament. Whittaker became interim middleweight champion after winning the title at UFC 213; he was promoted to undisputed champion after Georges St-Pierre vacated the UFC Middleweight Championship in 2017. As of 7 November 2018, he is #12 in official UFC pound-for-pound rankings.
UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Bigfoot was a mixed martial arts event held on December 7, 2013, at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The event was broadcast live on Fox Sports 1.
The eleventh series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who premiered on 7 October 2018 and concluded on 9 December 2018. The series is the first to be led by Chris Chibnall as head writer and executive producer, alongside executive producers Matt Strevens and Sam Hoyle, after Steven Moffat and Brian Minchin stepped down after the tenth series. This series is the eleventh to air following the programme's revival in 2005, and is the thirty-seventh season overall. It also marks the beginning of the third production era of the revived series, following Russell T Davies' run from 2005–2010, and Moffat's from 2010–2017. The eleventh series was broadcast on Sundays, a first in the programme's history, after regular episodes of the revived era have previously been broadcast on Saturdays.
UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that was held on February 11, 2018, at Perth Arena in Perth, Australia.
UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that was held on June 9, 2018, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters is an installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter.
The season tournament finale will take place on November 30, 2018 at Pearl Theatre at Palms Casino Resort on Fox Sports 1.
UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that was held on February 10, 2019 at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
