Tillinghast (surname)

Tillinghast is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• A. W. Tillinghast (1874–1942), United States golf course architect
• Charles Carpenter Tillinghast, Jr. (1911–1998), American chairman of Trans World Airlines and chancellor of Brown University
• Charles Foster Tillinghast, Jr. (1871–1948), yachtsman, winner of the 1935 Blue Water Medal
• John Tillinghast (1604–1655), British clergyman
• Mary Tillinghast (f. 1690s), British food writer
• Pardon Tillinghast (1622–1717), early American Baptist pastor and public official
• Richard Tillinghast (born 1940), United States poet
• Wallace Tillinghast (f. 1909–1910), United States man who falsely claimed to have invented a flying machine

It may also refer to a prominent Rhode Island political family, whose members include:

• Charles Foster Tillinghast, Sr. (died 1864), founder of Tillinghast Licht law firm
• Joseph L. Tillinghast (1791–1844), United States political figure from Rhode Island
• Thomas Tillinghast (1842–1921), United States political figure from Rhode Island