title: Brinkley (surname)
text: # Brinkley (surname)
  
  Brinkley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Alan Brinkley (1949–2019), historian
  * Amy Woods Brinkley (born c. 1956), businesswoman
  * Christie Brinkley (born 1954), model
  * David Brinkley (1920–2003), television journalist
  * David R. Brinkley (born 1959), Maryland politician
  * Don Brinkley, (1921–2012) television writer and producer, adoptive father of Christie
  * Douglas Brinkley (born 1960), American author and historian
  * Jack Thomas Brinkley (1930–2019), American politician
  * Jamel Brinkley, American writer
  * Joel Brinkley (1952–2014), New York Times journalist
  * John Brinkley (astronomer) (1763–1835), Astronomer Royal of Ireland
  * John R. Brinkley (1885–1941), American "goat gland" doctor also known for his radio broadcasts
  * Stephen Brinkley (born c. 1550), English printer of the sixteenth century
  