Frederick Methvan Whyte
Frederick Methvan Whyte (March 2, 1865 – 1941 Athens) was a mechanical engineer of Dutch background who worked for the New York Central in the United States. He is most widely known as the person who developed Whyte notation to describe the different wheel arrangements of steam locomotives in 1900.
Christopher Whyte
Whyte's first collection of original poetry, "Uirsgeul/Myth", in Gaelic with the author's facing English translations, was joint winner of a Saltire Award when published by Gairm in 1991. "We may expect substantial original work from his pen," announced Derick Thomson, in the second edition of his Introduction to Gaelic Poetry. "An Tràth Duilich" (Callander, Diehard Press 2002) is a Gaelic-only collection, containing a pivotal sequence about an urban adolescence troubled by religious and sexual guilt, and a dramatic cantata focusing on the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, constructed by sculptors Nicola and Giovanni Pisano in 1277-1278. "Dealbh Athar" (Dublin, Coiscéim 2009) offers forthright treatment of the poet's sexual abuse by his father, its consequences, and the attendant family circumstances, with translations into Irish by Gréagóir Ó Dúill.