Shagbark Hickory – Carya ovata

Culpeper, Colepeper, or Culpepper is a surname, first written "de Colepeper" in the 12th century in Kent, England.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Culpeper baronets, including:
  • Sir Thomas Culpeper, 3rd Baronet (1656–1723), English politician
• Barons Colepeper, including:
  • John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper (died 1660), English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1643–1646
  • Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper (1635–1689), English colonial governor of Virginia
• Alan Culpepper (born 1972), American distance runner, married to Shayne Culpepper
• Allen Culpepper Sealy (1850–1927), English artist
• Brad Culpepper (born 1969), American football player
• Carmen Ana Culpeper (born 1945), Puerto Rican businesswoman, Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury
• Cheney Culpeper (1601–1663), English landowner
• Cynthia Culpeper (1962–2005), American rabbi
• Daunte Culpepper (born 1977), American football player
• Ed Culpepper (1934–2021), American football player
• Edmund Culpeper (1660–1738), English scientific instrument maker
• Elizabeth Brooke (writer) (née Colepeper) (1601–1683), English religious writer and matriarch
• Frances Culpeper Berkeley (née Culpeper) (1634–1690s), American politician in Virginia and wife of three colonial governors
• Hanelle Culpepper, American filmmaker
• Jasper Culpeper (by 1508 – 1556/1564), MP for East Grinstead
• James Culpepper, drummer for American rock band Flyleaf
• Joel Culpepper (born 1984), English R&B singer-songwriter
• John Culpepper (disambiguation), also Culpeper and Colepeper, several people
• Joyce Culpeper (c.1480–c.1528), mother of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife and Queen consort of King Henry VIII
• Kaelen Culpepper (born 2002), American baseball player
• Knox Culpepper, American football player
• Martin Culpepper (c. 1540–1605), English clergyman, medical doctor and academic
• Marvin T. Culpepper (1908–1970), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer
• Pat Culpepper (John Patrick Culpepper Jr, born 1941), American football player and coach
• Pepper D. Culpepper (born 1968), American political scientist
• Randy Culpepper (born 1989), American basketball player
• Raymond Culpepper, American evangelist, former General Overseer of the Church of God
• Shayne Culpepper (born 1973), American middle-distance athlete
• Thomas Culpeper (disambiguation), also Culpepper and Colepeper, several people
• William Culpepper (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters

• Duncan "Dunc" Culpepper, in the Culpepper Adventures series of novels by Gary Paulsen
• Frank Culpepper, in the 1972 film The Culpepper Cattle Co.
• Isabel Culpeper, in the books The Wolves of Mercy Falls
• T. G. Culpepper, in the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• Thomas Colpeper, in the 1943 film A Canterbury Tale

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