Pinkerton
Pinkerton may refer to:
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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
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