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Whitening, Whitener or Whiten may refer to:

Processes or techniques

Cloud whitening, a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique
Key whitening, increasing the security of a cryptographic cipher
Racial whitening, an ideology in Brazil 1889–1914
- Blanqueamiento, the practice of marrying whiter people in order to have whiter offspring
Signal whitening, decorrelation in signal processing
Skin whitening, using chemical substances to lighten the skin
Software whitening, an approach to coping with bias in random number generation
Tooth whitening, in dentistry
Whitening (leather processing), a leather production process
Whitening transformation, in mathematics

Andrew Whiten (born 1948), a British zoologist and psychologist
Colette Whiten (born 1945), Canadian sculptor and artist
Mark Whiten (born 1966), American baseball player
Tim Whiten (born 1941), an American-born Canadian artist
Basil Lee Whitener (1915–1989), an American politician
Catherine Evans Whitener (1880–1964), a textile artisan in Georgia, US
Gordon Whitener, founder, chairman, and CEO of The Whitener Company, a Tennessee-based consulting and investment firm
Helen Whitener (born 1964/1965), a Trinidadian-American attorney and jurist
Paul Whitener (1911–1959), an American landscape painter and museum director
Todd Whitener (born 1978), an American musician

Non-dairy creamer, commonly called tea whitener or coffee whitener
Optical brightener, an additive used to enhance the appearance of colour of fabric and paper
Stress-whitening, where a white line appears when a material is stressed by bending or punching