Whistler

Whistler may refer to:

• Someone who whistles

Places

Canada

• Whistler, British Columbia, a resort town
  • Whistler railway station
  • Whistler Secondary School
• Whistler Blackcomb, a ski resort in British Columbia
• Whistler Mountain, British Columbia
• The Whistlers (Alberta), a mountain in Alberta

United States

• Whistler, Alabama, an unincorporated town until the 1950s, when it was annexed into neighboring Prichard
• Whistler Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Whistler Mountain (Washington), a mountain summit in Washington state
• Whistler Range, Nevada, a mountain range

Elsewhere

• Whistler Nunatak, Palmer Land, Antarctica
• Whistler River, New Zealand

People

• Alwyne Michael Webster Whistler (1909–1993), British Army general
• Anna McNeill Whistler (1804–1881), James Whistler's mother
• Arthur Whistler (1944–2020), American ethnobotanist
• Catherine Whistler is a British art historian and curator
• Charles Whistler (1856–1913), British writer
• George Washington Whistler (1800–1849), American civil engineer and railroad builder
• Harold Whistler (1896–1940), English First World War fighter ace
• Harvey Samuel Whistler (1907–1976), American violinist, pedagogue, composer, and arranger of music education method books
• Hugh Whistler (1889–1943), English police officer and ornithologist
• James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), American-born British painter, famous for the painting Whistler's Mother
• Lashmer Whistler (1898–1963), British Army general
• Laurence Whistler (1912–2000), British glass engraver and poet
• Rex Whistler (1905–1944), British painter
• William McNeill Whistler (1836–1900), physician, brother of James Whistler

Animals

• Whistler (bird), a group of passerine birds in the family Pachycephalidae
• Goldeneye (bird), a Northern Hemisphere seaduck in the genus Bucephala
• Groundhog, American species of marmot
• Hoary marmot, American species of marmot

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Whistler (Buffyverse), a character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Abraham Whistler, mentor to the Marvel Comics character Blade in film and animated continuity
• Coach Whistler, a mascot of The Land of Play in Pajanimals
• Erwin "Whistler" Emory, a character in the film Sneakers
• James Whistler (Prison Break character), mysterious inmate in the television series Prison Break's third season

Music

• Whistler (band), 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

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 very low frequency radio phenomenon caused by lightning
• CKEE-FM, 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 computer operating system
• Whistler Group, a company specializing in electronics and automotive laser/radar detection systems
• USS Whistler (SP-784), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

See also

• Whisler (disambiguation)