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) (died 1758), South Carolina politician, father of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, and uncle of Colonel Charles Pinckney
- Colonel Charles Pinckney (1731–1782), South Carolina politician, British Loyalist during Revolutionary War, father of the Governor Charles Pinckney
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), Revolutionary War general and vice presidential candidate
- Charles Pinckney (governor) (1757–1824), 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 (1750–1828), 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
- Clementa C. Pinckney (1973–2015), American politician
- Darryl Pinckney, American author and critic
- Ed Pinckney (born 1963), American basketball player
- Violet Millicent Pinckney (1871–1955), English tennis player
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