Prominent Descendants of John Whitney
- Amos Whitney (1832-1920)
- Anne Whitney (1821–1915)
- Asa Whitney (1797-1872)
- Asa Whitney (canal commissioner) (1791-1874)
- Benson Whitney (1956- )
- Charlotte Anita Whitney (1867-1955)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899-1992)
- Emeliea Whitney Hamilton (1996-)
- Courtney Whitney (1897-1969)
- Dorothy Payne Whitney (1887-1968)
- Edward Baldwin Whitney (1857-1911)
- Eli Whitney, Jr. (1765-1825)
- Eli Whitney Debevoise II (1953- )
- Flora Payne Whitney (1897-1986)
- Harry Payne Whitney (1872-1930)
- Hassler Whitney (1907-1989)
- Henry Melville Whitney (1839-1923)
- Henry Mitchell Whitney (1843-1911)
- James Scollay Whitney (1811-1878)
- Joan Whitney Payson (1903-1975)
- John Hay Whitney (1905-1982)
- Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819–1896)
- Mark Andrew Whitney (1960- )
- Mary Watson Whitney (1847-1921)
- Newel Kimball Whitney (1795–1850)
- Orson F. Whitney (1855-1931)
- Pauline Payne Whitney (1874-1916)
- Payne Whitney (1876-1927)
- Phyllis Ayame Whitney (1903–2008)
- Richard Whitney (financier) {1888-1974}
- Wheelock Whitney I (1894-1957)
- Wheelock Whitney II (1926- )
- Wheelock Whitney III (1949- )
- William Collins Whitney (1841-1904)
- William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894)
- Willis Rodney Whitney (1868-1958)
By marriage:
- Mary Elizabeth Altemus (1906-1988)
- Charles T. Barney (1851-1907)
- Betsey Cushing (1908-1998)
- Henry F. Dimock (1842-1911)
- Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893-1974)
- Helen Julia Hay (1876-1944)
- Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough (1861-1949)
- Marie Louise Schroeder (b. 1925)
- Willard Dickerman Straight (1880-1918)
- Adeline Dutton Train (1824-1906)
- Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875-1942)
- George W. Headley (1908-1985)
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