Parkyns
Parkyns is a surname. People with this surname include:
- Sir William Parkyns or Perkins, English lawyer and Jacobite conspirator, executed for high treason
- Colonel Isham Parkyns, a royalist officer during the English Civil War known for his defence of Ashby-de-la-Zouch against Cromwell's forces, and father of the first of the Parkyns baronets of Bunny Hall in Nottinghamshire, including:
- *Sir Thomas Parkyns, 2nd Baronet, writer on wrestling
- * two barons in the peerage of Ireland, both of whom were Members of Parliament:
- **Thomas Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe
- **George Parkyns, 2nd Baron Rancliffe
- Mansfield Parkyns, grandson of the 3rd baronet, English traveller, known for his travel book ''Life in Abyssinia''