Brinley
Brinley is a given name and a surname meaning 'burned clearing’. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Brinley Rees, Welsh academic
- Brinley Richards, Welsh language poet, author, Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales 1972–1975
- Brinley D. Sleight, American newspaper editor and politician
- Brinley Williams, Welsh dual-code international rugby wing
- Henry Brinley Richards, Welsh composer
Surname
- Bertrand R. Brinley, American writer of short stories and children's tales
- Charles Brinley, American actor of the silent era
- D. Putnam Brinley, American artist of the modernist school
- Godfrey Brinley, tennis player from the United States