Pinckney (surname)
Pinckney is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pinckney political family of South Carolina
- Charles Pinckney (South Carolina chief justice), South Carolina politician, father of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, and uncle of Colonel Charles Pinckney
- Colonel Charles Pinckney, South Carolina politician, British Loyalist during Revolutionary War, father of the Governor Charles Pinckney
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Revolutionary War general and Federalist Party presidential candidate
- Charles Pinckney (governor), drafter of the United States Constitution, father of Henry Laurens Pinckney, and second cousin of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- Eliza Lucas Pinckney, South Carolina planter
- Thomas Pinckney, South Carolina governor, ambassador to Britain, diplomat who arranged Pinckney's Treaty, and a brother of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- Henry L. Pinckney, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- John M. Pinckney, U.S. Representative from Texas; his parents were from South Carolina
Others
- Andrew Pinckney, American baseball player
- Bertine Pinckney, American politician
- Callan Pinckney, American fitness professional
- Clementa C. Pinckney, American politician
- Darryl Pinckney, American author and critic
- Ed Pinckney, American basketball player
- Frank L. Pinckney, American college basketball coach
- John A. Pinckney, American prelate of the Episcopal Church
- Josephine Pinckney, American novelist and poet
- Michael Pinckney, American football player
- Scott Pinckney, American professional golfer
- St. Clair Pinckney, American saxophonist
- Violet Pinckney, English tennis player
- William Pinckney, United States Navy sailor who was the second African-American to be awarded the Navy Cross
- * USS Pinckney, USN destroyer named in honor of William Pinckney