title: Tillinghast (surname)
text: # Tillinghast (surname)
  
  Tillinghast is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * A. W. Tillinghast (1874–1942), United States golf course architect
  * Charles Carpenter Tillinghast, Jr. (1911–1998), American chairman of Trans World Airlines and chancellor of Brown University
  * John Tillinghast (1604–1655), British clergyman
  * Mary Tillinghast (f. 1690s), British food writer
  * Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast (1845-1912), American stained-glass artist
  * Muriel Tillinghast, American civil rights activist
  * Pardon Tillinghast (1622–1717), early American Baptist pastor and public official
  * Richard Tillinghast (born 1940), United States poet
  * Wallace Tillinghast (f. 1909–1910), United States man who falsely claimed to have invented a flying machine
  
  It may also refer to a prominent Rhode Island political family, whose members include:
  
  * Joseph L. Tillinghast (1791–1844), United States political figure from Rhode Island
  * Charles Foster Tillinghast (1797–1864), American lawyer, founder of the Tillinghast Licht law firm, and grandfather of Charles Foster Tillinghast Sr.
  * Thomas Tillinghast (1842–1921), United States political figure from Rhode Island
  * Charles Foster Tillinghast Sr. (1871-1948), American businessman and National Guard officer
  * Charles Foster Tillinghast Jr. (1913-1995), American yachtsman and naval officer, son of Charles Foster Tillinghast Sr.
  