title: Temple (name)
text: # Temple (name)
  
  People and fictional characters with the name Temple include:
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Bill Temple (footballer) (1914–2006), English footballer
  * Derek Temple (born 1938), English footballer
  * Diana Temple (1925–2006), Australian pharmacologist
  * Floyd Temple (1926–2012), American baseball player and coach
  * Francisco P. Temple (1822–1880), Californian statesman and merchant
  * Frédéric Jacques Temple (1921–2020), French poet and writer
  * Frederick Temple (1821–1902), Archbishop of Canterbury
  * George Frederick James Temple (1901-1992), English mathematician
  * Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British prime minister
  * Henry Wilson Temple (1864–1955), American politician
  * James Temple (1606–1680), English Civil War soldier and regicide
  * Julien Temple (born 1953), English film director
  * Juno Temple (born 1989), English actress, daughter of Julien
  * Lew Temple (born 1967), American film actor
  * Luke Temple, American singer-songwriter
  * Nancy Temple, former in-house attorney at Arthur Andersen LLP involved in the Enron scandal
  * Nina Temple (born 1956), British communist politician
  * Owen Temple (born 1976), American musician
  * Peter Temple (1946–2018), Australian crime fiction writer
  * Peter Temple (regicide) (1599–1663), English Member of Parliament
  * Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet (1592–1653), English Member of Parliament
  * Philip Temple (born 1939), New Zealand fiction and non-fiction writer
  * Richard Carnac Temple (1850–1931), British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and anthropological writer
  * Robert K. G. Temple (born 1945), American author
  * Shirley Temple (1928–2014), American child actress, singer, dancer and ambassador
  * Simon Temple, the Elder (1780–1805) and Simon Temple, the Younger (1759–1815), English ship builders at Temple shipbuilders
  * Tony Temple (born 1985), American football player
  * Tracey Temple, former secretary to and lover of British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott
  * William Temple (governor) (1814–1863), Governor of Delaware
  * William Temple (bishop) (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury
  
  ## Given name
  
  * Temple Grandin (born 1947), American professor, slaughterhouse designer and autism activist
  * Temple Hardy (1765–1814), British Royal Navy officer; grandson of Temple Stanyan
  * Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905), youngest son of Sam Houston
  * Temple F. Smith (born 1939), American professor of biomedical engineering
  * Temple Stanyan (1675–1752), English politician and historian of ancient Greece
  * Temple Tucker, American basketball player
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * the title character of Charlotte Temple, a 1791 novel by Susanna Rowson
  * Claire Temple, a Marvel Comics character
     * Claire Temple (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the 21st-century film version of said character
  * the title character of Lucy Temple, Charlotte Temple's daughter in an 1828 novel by Rowson
  * Paul Temple, an amateur private detective created by Francis Durbridge
  * Temple Drake, a William Faulkner character
  