Pinckney
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Pinckney is a surname, and may refer to
- Coty Pinckney
- Ed Pinckney
Pinckney was the name of a prominent South Carolina political family around the time of the American Revolution and the adoption of the United States Constitution:
- Charles Pinckney (d. 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 (1757-1824), drafter of Constitution of the United States, father of Henry Laurens Pickney, and second cousin of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- Eliza Lucas Pinckney, South Carolina planter
- Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828), South Carolina governor, ambassador to Britain
- Henry Laurens Pinckney, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Pinckney's Treaty, (1795-1796), Pinckney's Treaty