Pinkerton may refer to:

Places

Pinkerton, Ontario Pinkerton (also Pinkerton's Corners) is an unincorporated rural community in Bradford West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. History Matthew Pinkerton, a surveyor and early settler, built a log school house in 1840. A Wesle ...

, named after surveyor and early settler Matthew Pinkerton *

Pinkerton's Landing Bridge The Pinkerton's Landing Bridge (officially known as the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge at Munhall) is a truss bridge that carries CSX Transportation's Pittsburgh Subdivision across the Monongahela River between Munhall, Pennsylvania and ...

, railroad bridge in Pennsylvania

People

Allan Pinkerton Allan J. Pinkerton (August 25, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to a ...

(18191884), Scottish-American detective and spy, founder of the

Pinkerton National Detective Agency Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton ...

Bill Pinkerton William John Pinkerton was a Scottish amateur Association football, football Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper who appeared in the Scottish Football League, Scottish League for Queen's Park F.C., Queen's Park. References

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, Scottish footballer *

Brian Pinkerton Brian Pinkerton is an American author of fiction in the suspense, thriller, mystery, science fiction and horror genres. He received his B.A. from the University of Iowa and Master's Degree from Northwestern University. Select bibliography Novels ...

(active from 2004), American fiction author *

David Pinkerton David Pinkerton (26 September 1836 – 23 June 1906) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Dunedin City, in the South Island. Early life Born in Kirknewton, West Lothian, Scotland. He married Margaret Fairley on 1 December 1857 with whom ...

(18361906), New Zealand politician *

Godfrey Pinkerton Godfrey Pinkerton (1858 – 1937) was a London-based British architect. Biography Early life Pinkerton was born at Godstone, Surrey, son of metal broker George Pinkerton (1823 – 1899), son of the missionary and linguist Rev. Robert Pinkerton, DD ...

(18581937), British architect *

Henry Pinkerton Henry Pinkerton (7 May 1915 – 1986) was a Scottish Association football, footballer. Career Pinkerton played for Hull City A.F.C., Hull City before joining Port Vale F.C., Port Vale in May 1935. After just two games he was released at the en ...

(191586), Scottish footballer *

James Pinkerton James "Jim" P. Pinkerton (born March 11, 1958) is an American columnist, author, and political analyst. Career A graduate of Evanston Township High School (1975) and Stanford University (1980), he served on the White House staff under both Ronald ...

(born 1958), American columnist, author, and political analyst *

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton Anthony James Moxon Lowther-Pinkerton, LVO, MBE, DL (born 28 September 1960) is the former Private Secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and to Prince Harry. He was appointed on 2 May 2005 and resigned as full-time Private Secretary with ...

(born 1960), British private secretary in the Royal Household *

Jay Pinkerton Jay Pinkerton (born June 15, 1977) is a Canadian humourist known for co-writing, with Erik Wolpaw, the story of Valve's video game ''Portal 2''. A former editor of both Cracked.com and ''Cracked'' magazine, ''PlayStation World'' magazine referr ...

(born 1977), Canadian humorist *

John Pinkerton John Pinkerton (17 February 1758 – 10 March 1826) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory. He was born in Edinburgh, as one of three sons to Ja ...

(17581826), Scottish pseudo-historian *

John Pinkerton (politician) John Pinkerton (1845 – 4 November 1908) was an Irish Protestant nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party he re ...

(18451908), Irish politician and Member of Parliament *

John Pinkerton (computer designer) John Maurice McClean Pinkerton (2 August 1919 – 22 December 1997) was a pioneering British computer designer. Along with David Caminer, he designed England's first business computer, the LEO computer, produced by J. Lyons and Co in 1951. Pers ...

(191997), British computer designer *

Louis Pinkerton Louis Pinkerton is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party politician who represented the 5th district in the North Dakota House of Representatives from 2007–2011. Pinkerton was elected in 2006 finishing 1st out of 4 candidates in district 5. In ...

(active from 2007), American politician (North Dakota) *

Mike Pinkerton Mike "Pink" Pinkerton is an American software engineer who is known for his work on the Mozilla browsers. He lectures on ''Development of Open Source Software'' at George Washington University. Pinkerton studied at University of California, San Di ...

(active from 1997), American software engineer *

Nancy Pinkerton Nancy Pinkerton Peabody (May 7, 1940 – March 4, 2010) was an American actress. Pinkerton is perhaps best known as the original actress to play Dr. Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera ''One Life to Live'' from 1973 to 1977, a period whic ...

(19402010), American actress *

Percy Edward Pinkerton Percy Edward Pinkerton (19 June 1855 – 31 August 1946) was an English translator and poet. His translations included two novels by Émile Zola and a Puccini libretto. Early life Pinkerton was born at Stamford Hill, Middlesex, the third child of ...

(18551946), English translator and poet *

Robert Pinkerton Robert Pinkerton (born 1780 at Foulshiels near Selkirk, ScotlandBiographical Dictionary of Christian Missions (edited by Gerald H. Anderson) - died 7 April 1859 at Reigate, Surrey, England) was a Principal Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Soc ...

(17801859), Scottish missionary, linguist, translator and author * William Pinkerton (18101893), early South Australian settler

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Pinkalicious Pinkerton ''Pinkalicious'' is a series of children's picture books written and illustrated by Victoria Kann. The first two books, ''Pinkalicious'' and ''Purplicious'', were co-written with her sister, Elizabeth Kann. The books are aimed at ages 4-8, and a ...

Pinky Pinkerton Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character's first appearance was in ''Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos'' #8 (July 1964), in which he replaced Jonathan Junior ...

, fictional character in Marvel Comics *

Lieutenant Pinkerton ''Madama Butterfly'' (; ''Madame Butterfly'') is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther ...

, character in Puccini's opera ''Madama Butterfly''

Films

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Little Miss Pinkerton ''Little Miss Pinkerton'' is a 1943 ''Our Gang'' short comedy film directed by Herbert Glazer. It was the 216th ''Our Gang'' short (217th episode, 128th talking short, 129th talking episode, and 48th MGM produced episode) that was released. Syno ...

'', Our Gang short comedy film of 1943 * ''

Nat Pinkerton in the Fight ''Nat Pinkerton in the Fight'' (german: Nat Pinkerton im Kampf) is a 1920 German film directed by Wolfgang Neff and featuring Béla Lugosi. The film was released in two parts, ''Das Ende des Artisten Bartolini'' (1920) and ''Diebesfallen'' (1921) ...

'' (German: ''Nat Pinkerton im Kampf''), 1920 German film

Music

* ''Pinkerton'' (album), a 1996 album by Weezer *

Pinkerton Thugs The Pinkerton Thugs are a punk band from Kennebunk, Maine. History The band has been together since July 1994 under a number of different names but officially became the Pinkerton Thugs in March 1996 (taking their name from the infamous Pinker ...

, punk band from Kennebunk, Maine *

Pinkerton's Assorted Colours Pinkerton's Assorted Colours were an English pop band active during the 1960s. They are best known for their 1965 release, "Mirror, Mirror", which reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1966. Career Formed in Rugby, Warwickshire as ...

, mid-1960s pop band from England

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

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The Pinkerton Labor Spy ''The Pinkerton Labor Spy'' (alternately, ''The Pinkerton's Labor Spy'') is a nonfiction book published in 1907 as an exposé of intrigue and abuses by the Pinkerton Detective Agency in general, and by chief agent James McParland in particular.Fu ...

'', 1907 book which exposed intrigue and abuses by the Pinkerton Detective Agency * ''

The Pinkertons ''The Pinkertons'' is a Canadian Western police procedural television series which features crime cases of the Pinkerton detective agency. The show is officially licensed with the Pinkerton detective agency, and features stories based on actual c ...

'', an American Western action-adventure detective television series

Policing

Pinkerton (detective agency) Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton ...

, founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton *

Anti-Pinkerton Act The Anti-Pinkerton Act was a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1893 to limit the federal government's ability to hire private investigators or mercenaries. The Anti-Pinkerton Act is contained withi5 U.S.C. 3108and purports to specifically restri ...

, a U.S. law of 1893 * '' Pinkerton v. United States'', 328 U.S. 640 (1946), a U.S. Supreme Court case **

Pinkerton liability The Pinkerton liability rule was pronounced by the Supreme Court of the United States in '' Pinkerton v. United States'',328 U.S. 640, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L.Ed. 1489 (1946) in 1946. Walter and Daniel Pinkerton were brothers who were charged with one ...

, a basis of conspiracy liability derived from ''Pinkerton v. United States''

Other uses

Pinkerton Academy Pinkerton Academy is a secondary school in Derry, New Hampshire, United States. It serves roughly 3,269 students, making it by far the largest high school in New Hampshire, more than 1,300 students greater than the next largest high school. Pi ...

, a high school in Derry, New Hampshire *

Pinkerton Lecture The Pinkerton lecture series is held by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in commemoration and honour of John Pinkerton, the pivotal engineer who was involved with designing the UK's first business computer in 1951. The first lecture was ...

, an annual lecture named after computer designer John Pinkerton * * {{Disambiguation, surname