Nightingale (surname)

Nightingale is an English surname, originally a nickname for someone with a good voice. Notable people with this surname include the following:


 * The Nightingale Baronetcy, an aristocratic title in the Baronetage of England, created in 1628
 * Adam Nightingale (born 1979), American ice hockey coach
 * Albert Nightingale (1923–2006), English footballer
 * Andrea Nightingale (born 1959), American classical scholar
 * Annie Nightingale (1940–2024), English radio broadcaster
 * Anthony Nightingale (born 1947), Hong Kong businessman
 * Benedict Nightingale (born 1939), British journalist
 * Danny Nightingale (born 1954),British modern pentathlete
 * Danny Nightingale (soldier) (born 1975), British soldier
 * David Nightingale, English footballer
 * Deborah Nightingale, American industrial engineer
 * Earl Nightingale (1921–1989), American motivational speaker
 * Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), British pioneer of modern nursing and statistician
 * Frances Parthenope Verney, nee Nightingale (1819–1890), British novelist, economist, social commentator, and journalist.
 * Gardner Nightingale (1920-2013), American soldier and business founder
 * James Nightingale (rugby league) (born 1986), Papua New Guinean rugby league player
 * James Nightingale (English footballer)
 * Jared Nightingale (born 1982), American ice hockey defenceman
 * Jason Nightingale (born 1986), New Zealand rugby player
 * John Nightingale (actor) (c.1943–1980), British actor
 * John Nightingale (figure skater) (born 1928), American figure skater
 * John Nightingale (MP) for Leicester (UK Parliament constituency)
 * Joseph Nightingale (1775–1824), English writer and preacher
 * Kathryn R. Nightingale, American biomedical engineer and academic
 * Luke Nightingale (born 1980), English footballer
 * Lynn Nightingale (born 1956), Canadian figure skater
 * Margie Nightingale, Australian politician
 * Mark Nightingale (born 1967), British jazz trombonist
 * Mary Nightingale (born 1963), English newsreader and television presenter
 * Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British soul music singer
 * Michael Nightingale (1922–1999), English actor
 * Neil Nightingale, British naturalist and television producer
 * Tunde Nightingale (Earnest Olatunde Thomas) (1922–1981), Nigerian singer and guitarist
 * Wally Nightingale (1956–1996), English guitarist of the Sex Pistols
 * Rabbi Tzvi Nightingale (born 1960) Canadian American Rabbi
 * Will Nightingale (born 1995), English footballer
 * William Nightingale (1794–1874), English Unitarian, the father of Florence Nightingale