Pinckney (surname)

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Pinckney is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Pinckney political family of South Carolina[]

• Charles Pinckney (South Carolina chief justice) (1699–1758), 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 Federalist Party 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 (1722–1793), 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 (1794–1863), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• John M. Pinckney (1845–1905), U.S. Representative from Texas; his parents were from South Carolina

Others[]

• Bertine Pinckney (1824–1909), American politician
• Callan Pinckney (1939–2012), American fitness professional
• Clementa C. Pinckney (1973–2015), American politician
• Darryl Pinckney (born 1953), American author and critic
• Ed Pinckney (born 1963), American basketball player
• Frank L. Pinckney (1884–1945), American college basketball coach
• John A. Pinckney (1905–1972), American prelate of the Episcopal Church
• Josephine Pinckney (1895–1957), American novelist and poet
• Michael Pinckney (born 1998), American football player
• Scott Pinckney (born 1989), American professional golfer
• St. Clair Pinckney (1930–1999), American saxophonist
• Violet Pinckney (1871–1955), English tennis player

See also[]

• Charles Pinckney (disambiguation)
• Governor Pinckney (disambiguation)
• Senator Pinckney (disambiguation)
• Pinckney (disambiguation)

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