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Tinkle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Donald W. Tinkle (1930–1980), herpetologist, ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan
- Lon Tinkle (1906–1980), historian, author, book critic, and professor who specialized in the history of Texas
- Tres Tinkle (born 1996), American basketball player
- Wayne Tinkle (born 1966), American college basketball coach
Donald Ward Tinkle was a prominent herpetologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan until his illness and death at age 49. He is best known for his intensive demographic studies of lizards, which involved full censuses of local populations repeated over several years to obtain life table parameters such as age at maturity, survivorship, and reproductive effort. He was a pioneer in developing life history theory along with key students including Henry Wilbur, Michael Hirshfield, and Arthur Dunham, and he was an important collaborator with Dr. Richard D. Alexander in the application of individual selection theory and sociobiological ideas to varied organisms including humans.
Julien Lon Tinkle was a historian, author, book critic, and professor who specialized in the history of Texas. Tinkle spent most of his life in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from and later taught at Southern Methodist University. In 1942 he became a book editor and critic for the Dallas Morning News. His first book, Thirteen Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo, was published in 1958. The book was well received and was later adapted into a made-for-television movie. Tinkle won awards for this book, and for a biography that he wrote of historian J. Frank Dobie. He is the namesake of the Texas Institute of Letters' lifetime achievement award.
Tres Tinkle is an American college basketball player for the Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-12 Conference.
