Pinckney (surname)
Pinckney is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
;Pinckney political family of South Carolina
- Charles Pinckney , 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 vice presidential candidate
- Charles Pinckney , 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
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