Pincus (surname)

Pincus or Pinkus is a surname of Jewish origin, derived from the given name Pinkus, which in turn originates with the Biblical Hebrew male personal name Pinechas (Hebrew: פִּינְחָס‎) or Phinehas. The name may refer to:


 * Albert Pinkus (1903–1984), American chess player
 * Anne Pincus (born 1961), Australian artist
 * Barry Manilow (born Barry Pincus in 1943), American singer
 * Ed Pincus (1938–2013), American filmmaker
 * Edward Pinkus (1981-present), American comic book collector
 * David Pincus (1926–2011), American art collector
 * Fred Pincus (born 1942), American sociologist
 * Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967), American biologist
 * Harold Alan Pincus (born 1951), American psychiatrist
 * Irving Pincus (1914–1984), American writer
 * Jeff Pinkus (born 1967), American musician
 * Lionel Pincus (1931–2009), American businessman
 * Mark Pincus (born 1966), American businessman
 * Mathilde Pincus (1917–1988), American music supervisor
 * Robert Pincus-Witten (born 1935), American art critic and historian
 * Tom Pincus (Australian rugby player)
 * Joe Pincus (Australian rugby player)
 * S. Henry Pincus (d. 1915), American actor, theatre impresario, and inventor
 * Shimshon Dovid Pincus (1944–2001), Israeli rabbi
 * Steven Pincus (born 1962), American historian at Yale, specializing on early modern England
 * Walter Pincus (born 1932), American journalist
 * Yirmi Pinkus (born 1966), Israeli comic book artist, illustrator and author
 * Zachary Pincus-Roth (born 1979), American writer