What is "lipton"

Lipton is a surname, and may refer to:

• Bruce Lipton (born 1944), American developmental biologist
• Carwood Lipton (1920–2001), US Army officer and World War II veteran portrayed in Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)
• Celia Lipton (1923–2011), British actress, singer and philanthropist
• Ellen Cogen Lipton (born 1967), American lawyer and politician
• Eric Lipton (contemporary), New York Times reporter
• James Lipton (born 1926), American writer and poet
• John Lipton (born 1936), American politician
• Lawrence Lipton (1898–1975), American journalist, writer, and beat poet
• Lenny Lipton (born 1940), American author, filmmaker and stereoscopic vision system inventor
• Lew Lipton (1897–1961), American screenwriter
• Lynne Lipton (contemporary), American actress
• Marcus Lipton (1900–1978), British Labour Party politician
• Martha Lipton (1913–2006), American operatic mezzo-soprano
• Martin Lipton (born 1931), American lawyer
• Michael Lipton (born 1937), British economist
• Peggy Lipton (born 1946), American actress and socialite
• Peter Lipton (1954–2007), American philosopher of science and epistemologist
• Richard J. Lipton (born 1946), American computer scientist
• Seymour Lipton (1903–1986), American abstract expressionist sculptor
• Sydney Lipton (1905-1995), English bandleader
• Sir Thomas Lipton (1848–1931), British merchant and yachtsman; created the Lipton tea brand
• Zachary Lipton (born 1985), American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader

Lipton is a brand of tea belonging to Unilever and PepsiCo. Lipton was also a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom before it was sold off to Argyll Foods, to allow the company to focus solely on tea. The company is named after its founder Thomas Lipton.