Tinker (surname)

• Carson Tinker, American National Football League long snapper
• Clarence L. Tinker, first Native American major general
• Frank Glasgow Tinker, American mercenary pilot and top American ace in the Spanish Civil War
• Grant Tinker, former chairman and CEO of the NBC television network, co-founder of MTM Enterprises and former husband of Mary Tyler Moore
• Gerald Tinker, American former track and field runner and National Football League player
• HP Tinker, British short story writer
• Irene Tinker, American Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley
• Jack Tinker, English theatre critic
• Joe Tinker, American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
• John Tinker
• Mark Tinker, American television producer and director
• Miles Tinker, American author and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota
• Ronald Tinker, New Zealand World War II officer
• Thomas Tinker, a passenger on the Mayflower

• Beth Tinker, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Sinead Tinker, the niece of Beth Tinker in Coronation Street
• Alice Tinker, a character in British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley