Temple (name)
# 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
