Pinkerton

Pinkerton or Pinkerton's may refer to:

Places

• Pinkerton, Ontario, Canada, an unincorporated community
• Pinkerton Run, Pennsylvania, United States, a stream
• Pinkerton's Landing Bridge, a railroad bridge in Pennsylvania across the Monongahela River

People

• Al Pinkerton (fl. 2024–present), British politician and academic
• Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), Scottish-American detective and spy, founder of what would become the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
• Bill Pinkerton (born 1932), Scottish football goalkeeper
• Brian Pinkerton (fl. 2004–present), American fiction author
• David Pinkerton (1836–1906), New Zealand politician
• Godfrey Pinkerton (1858–1937), British architect
• Henry Pinkerton (1915–1986), Scottish footballer
• James Pinkerton (born 1958), American columnist, author and political analyst
• Jay Pinkerton (born 1977), Canadian humorist
• John Pinkerton (1758–1826), Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian
• John Pinkerton (politician) (1845–1908), Irish politician and Member of Parliament
• John Pinkerton (computer designer) (1919–1997), British computer designer
• Kathrene Pinkerton (1887–1967), American writer
• Louis Pinkerton (fl. 2007–present), American politician
• Mike Pinkerton (fl. 1997–present), American software engineer
• Nancy Pinkerton (1940–2010), American actress
• Percy Edward Pinkerton (1855–1946), English translator and poet
• Peter Pinkerton (1870–1930), Scottish mathematician
• Robert Pinkerton (1780–1859), Scottish missionary, linguist, translator and author
• Romeo Pinkerton (born c. 1958), American mass murderer
• Stuart Pinkerton (born 1973), Australian former rugby union player
• William Pinkerton (1810–1893), early South Australian settler
• Pinkerton R. Vaughn (1841–1866), American Civil War Marine Corps sergeant awarded the Medal of Honor

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Pinkalicious Pinkerton
• Pinky Pinkerton, a Marvel Comics character
• Lieutenant Pinkerton, in Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Pinkerton (album), a 1996 album by Weezer
• The Pinkertons, a Canadian Western television series

Policing

• Pinkerton (detective agency), founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton
• Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946), a U.S. Supreme Court case

Other uses

• Pinkerton Academy, a high school in Derry, New Hampshire
• Pinkerton Lecture, an annual lecture named after computer designer John Pinkerton
• Pinkerton syndrome, the perceived tendency of some Asians to regard white people as superior or more desirable

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