Tinker (surname) explained

The surname Tinker, originally an occupational surname for a "mender of pots and pans", may refer to:

People:

• Annie Rensselaer Tinker (1884 - 1924), volunteer nurse in WWI, suffragist, and philanthropist
• Bonnie Tinker (1948 - 2009), American activist
• Carson Tinker (born 1989), American National Football League long snapper
• Clarence L. Tinker (1887 - 1942), first Native American major general
• Frank Glasgow Tinker (1909 - 1939), American mercenary pilot and top American ace in the Spanish Civil War
• Grant Tinker (1925 - 2016), former chairman and CEO of the NBC television network, co-founder of MTM Enterprises and former husband of Mary Tyler Moore
• Gerald Tinker (born 1951), American former track and field runner and National Football League player
• HP Tinker (born 1969), British short story writer
• Irene Tinker (born 1927), American Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley
• Jack Tinker (1938 - 1996), English theatre critic
• Joe Tinker (1880 - 1948), American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
• John Tinker (disambiguation)
• Mark Tinker (born 1951), American television producer and director
• Miles Tinker (1893 - 1977), American author and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota
• Ronald Tinker (1913 - 1982), New Zealand World War II officer
• Thomas Tinker (c.1581–1620/21), a passenger on the Mayflower

Fictional characters:

• 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