title: Pinkerton
text: # 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
  