Tinker (surname)
The surname Tinker, originally an occupational surname for a "mender of pots and pans", may refer to:
People:
- Annie Rensselaer Tinker, American volunteer nurse in WWI, suffragist, and philanthropist
- Bonnie Tinker, American activist
- Carson Tinker, American National Football League long snapper
- Clarence L. Tinker, first Native American major general
- Frank Glasgow Tinker, American mercenary pilot and top American ace in the Spanish Civil War
- Grant Tinker, former chairman and CEO of the NBC television network, co-founder of MTM Enterprises
- Gerald Tinker, American former track and field runner and National Football League player
- HP Tinker, British short story writer
- Irene Tinker, American Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley
- Jack Tinker, English theatre critic
- Joe Tinker, American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
- John Tinker (disambiguation)
- Mark Tinker, American television producer and director
- Miles Tinker, American author and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota
- Ronald Tinker, New Zealand World War II officer
- Thomas Tinker, a passenger on the Mayflower
- Beth Tinker, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Sinead Tinker, the niece of Beth Tinker in Coronation Street
- Alice Tinker, a character in British sitcom ''The Vicar of Dibley''