Pinkerton
# 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

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### 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
* All pages with titles containing Pinkerton
* All pages with titles beginning with Pinkerton
