Whitten Family Crest, Coat of Arms

Contemporary Notables of the name Whitten (post 1700) +

Leslie Hunter "Les" Whitten Jr. (1928-2017), American investigative reporter and novelist
Jack Whitten (1939-2018), American abstract painter awarded a National Medal of Arts in 2016
Marguerite Whitten (1913-1990), American film actress who appeared in 14 films between 1938 and 1943
John Moss Whitten (1920-2000), American Central Intelligence Agency officer, known under the pseudonym John Scelso; he was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal in 1970
Greg Whitten (b. 1979), American former chief software architect at Microsoft, some believe "GWBasic" was derived from his initials
Deborah "Deb" Whitten (b. 1966), Canadian bronze medalist field hockey goalkeeper at the 1995 Pan American Games
Charles William "C. W." Whitten (1871-1957), American educator and athletic administrator
Cameron Whitten (b. 1991), American community activist and hunger striker
Benoni Whitten (b. 1883), American attorney and jurist, 19th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in 1870
... (Another 14 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Seary E.R., Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland, Montreal: McGill's-Queen's Universtity Press 1998 ISBN 0-7735-1782-0
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 9th May 2022). https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/equestrian
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 3rd May 2018). Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/emigration_australia_victoria.pdf
New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html