Pinkerton

Pinkerton may refer to:

Places

 * Pinkerton, Ontario, named after surveyor and early settler Matthew Pinkerton
 * Pinkerton's Landing Bridge, railroad bridge in Pennsylvania

People

 * Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), Scottish-American detective and spy, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
 * Bill Pinkerton, Scottish footballer
 * Brian Pinkerton (active from 2004), American fiction author
 * David Pinkerton (1836–1906), New Zealand politician
 * Godfrey Pinkerton (1858–1937), British architect
 * Henry Pinkerton (1915–86), Scottish footballer
 * James Pinkerton (born 1958), American columnist, author, and political analyst
 * Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton (born 1960), British private secretary in the Royal Household
 * Jay Pinkerton (born 1977), Canadian humorist
 * John Pinkerton (1758–1826), Scottish pseudo-historian
 * John Pinkerton (politician) (1845–1908), Irish politician and Member of Parliament
 * John Pinkerton (computer designer) (1919–97), British computer designer
 * Louis Pinkerton (active from 2007), American politician (North Dakota)
 * Mike Pinkerton (active from 1997), American software engineer
 * Nancy Pinkerton (1940–2010), American actress
 * Percy Edward Pinkerton (1855–1946), English translator and poet
 * Robert Pinkerton (1780–1859), Scottish missionary, linguist, translator and author
 * William Pinkerton (1810–1893), early South Australian settler

Fictional characters

 * Pinkalicious Pinkerton
 * Pinky Pinkerton, fictional character in Marvel Comics
 * Lieutenant Pinkerton, character in Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly

Films

 * Little Miss Pinkerton, Our Gang short comedy film of 1943
 * Nat Pinkerton in the Fight (German: Nat Pinkerton im Kampf), 1920 German film

Music

 * Pinkerton (album), a 1996 album by Weezer
 * Pinkerton Thugs, punk band from Kennebunk, Maine
 * Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, mid-1960s pop band from England

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * The Pinkerton Labor Spy, 1907 book which exposed intrigue and abuses by the Pinkerton Detective Agency
 * The Pinkertons, an American Western action-adventure detective television series

Policing

 * Pinkerton (detective agency), founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton
 * Anti-Pinkerton Act, a U.S. law of 1893
 * Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946), a U.S. Supreme Court case
 * Pinkerton liability, a basis of conspiracy liability derived from Pinkerton v. United States

Other uses

 * Pinkerton Academy, a high school in Derry, New Hampshire
 * Pinkerton Lecture, an annual lecture named after computer designer John Pinkerton