Pinkney
Pinkney is a surname and masculine given name borne by the following people:
Surname
- Alan Pinkney, English footballer
- Andrea Davis Pinkney, American children's book author, wife of Brian Pinkney
- Bill Pinkney, American performer and singer, member of The Drifters
- Bill Pinkney , first African American to sail around the world solo
- Bob Pinkney, Canadian football player
- Brian Pinkney, American illustrator, son of illustrator Jerry Pinkney, husband of Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a Founding Father of the United States, Revolutionary War officer, United States Minister to France, attorney, planter and slave owner
- Cleveland Pinkney, American football player
- Colleen Pinkney, Canadian curler
- David Pinkney, English racing driver
- David H. Pinkney, American historian
- Dwight Pinkney, Jamaican guitarist
- Edward Coote Pinkney, American poet
- Edward Pinkney, American founder of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization
- Ernie Pinkney, English footballer
- Fayette Pinkney, American singer, member of the Three Degrees
- George Pinkney, American baseball player
- Isiah Pinkney, American rapper 12 Gauge
- Jared Pinkney, American football player
- Jerry Pinkney, American book illustrator
- Kevinn Pinkney, American basketball player
- Larry Pinkney, American football player
- Marie Pinkney, American openly queer social worker and politician elected to the Delaware Senate in 2020
- Miles Pinkney, English Catholic priest
- Nick Pinkney, English rugby league footballer
- Ninian Pinkney, US Navy surgeon and medical director, active during the American Civil War
- Peter Pinkney, British trade unionist
- Reggie Pinkney, American football player
- Ron Pinkney, American broadcaster, first African American play-by-play announcer on a major television network
- Rose Catherine Pinkney, American television executive
- Thomas Pinckney, American statesman, diplomat, and major general
- William Pinkney, American statesman, diplomat and 7th United States Attorney General
- William Pinkney , Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
Given name
- Pink Anderson, American blues singer and guitarist
- Pinkney Lugenbeel, United States Army colonel
- Pinkney L. Near, American museum curator
- Pinkney H. Walker, American jurist