Pinkerton or Pinkerton's may refer to:

  • Pinkerton (detective agency), founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton
  • Pinkerton (album), a 1996 album by Weezer

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 (), 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 (), 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 (), American politician
  • Mike Pinkerton (), 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

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

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • The Pinkertons, a Canadian Western television series

See also

  • 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
  • Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946), a U.S. Supreme Court case