Several locations are called Pickering:

• Pickering, Yorkshire, England
• Pickering, Ontario, Canada

The are several people with the name Pickering:

• William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004), former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• William Henry Pickering (1858-1938), astronomer
• Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), astronomer
• Samuel F. Pickering Jr., an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society