1689) Gordon Jackson

Gordon Cameron Jackson (1923 – 1990). Scottish actor. He is best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals. He also portrayed Capt Jimmy Cairns in Tunes of Glory, and Flt. Lt. Andrew MacDonald, "Intelligence", in The Great Escape.
In 1960, Jackson was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor for the film Yesterday's Enemy and in 1975 was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for the television series Upstairs, Downstairs. The following year he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series.

 

- "The tall, red-haired Jackson started acting as a teen-ager soon after the outbreak of World War II." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-16-mn-20-story.html 

 

1688) Dennis Johnson

Dennis Wayne Johnson (1954 – 2007), nicknamed "DJ". American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, and Boston Celtics. He was a coach of the Los Angeles Clippers and an alumnus of Dominguez High School, Los Angeles Harbor College and Pepperdine University.
The Celtics retired Johnson's No. 3 jersey which hangs from the rafters of the TD Garden, the home arena of the team. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame officially inducted Johnson to the Hall posthumously in 2010. He is considered by several sports journalists to be one of the most underrated players of all time.

 

- "Johnson was also known for his appearance: he had freckles and red-tinged hair." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Johnson

 

1687) Bill Walton

Bill Walton (born William Theodore Walton III, 1952 – 2024). American basketball player and television sportscaster. He played collegiately for the UCLA Bruins and professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland Trail Blazers, San Diego / Los Angeles Clippers, and Boston Celtics. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
His professional career was significantly hampered by foot injuries, requiring numerous surgeries (he underwent 37 orthopedic surgeries in his lifetime).
After retiring from the NBA, Walton overcame stuttering and embarked on a second career as a sportscaster, working both as a studio analyst and color commentator with several networks and teams. He earned an Emmy Award in 1991.

 

- "Walton became the No. 1 overall pick in the 1974 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers and, now with a fiery red beard to match his tousled hair, led the Blazers to a title in 1977." https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/basketball-legend-bill-walton-dead-71/story?id=110588257

 

- "To celebrate the life of the legendary red-headed Deadhead, here’s a collection of SI covers from his career and the stories that go along with them." https://www.si.com/nba/remembering-bill-walton-career-through-sports-illustrated-covers 

 

- "Bill Walton is probably the best red head to ever play the game of basketball..." https://studentunionsports.com/the-greatest-red-headed-basketball-players-of-all-time/ 

 

1686) Clive Revill

Clive Selsby Revill (1930 – 2025). New Zealand actor, best known for his performances in musical theatre and the London stage. A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he also starred in numerous films and television programmes, often in character parts. He was a two-time Tony Award nominee, as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Irma La Douce and Best Actor in a Musical for Oliver! He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Billy Wilder's Avanti! (1972).
His roles also included voicing Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

 

- "Revill was stocky and pugnacious, with a Mr Punch-style nose, piercing blue eyes and red hair..." https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/apr/04/clive-revill-obituary 

 

- "Revill's red hair and distinctive Mr. Punch-like features often saw him cast as comic eccentrics in a number of British films..." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Clive_Revill

 

1685) Samantha Eggar

Samantha Eggar (born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar, 1939 – 2025). English actress.
After beginning her career in Shakespearean theatre, she rose to fame for her performance in William Wyler's thriller The Collector (1965), which earned her a Golden Globe Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Eggar later appeared as Emma Fairfax in Doctor Dolittle (1967) and the American drama The Molly Maguires (1970). In the early 1970s she moved to the United States and Canada, where she later starred in several horror films, including The Dead Are Alive (1972), The Uncanny (1977) and David Cronenberg's cult thriller The Brood (1979).
Eggar also worked as a voice actress, as Hera in Disney's Hercules (1997) and in several video games, including Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned and 007: Nightfire. Her television work included roles on Fantasy Island and a recurring part as Charlotte Devane in the soap opera All My Children in 2000.

 

- "Such a beautiful and talented actress with the must radiant red hair." https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/2122914/dead-cary-grant-co-star

 

- "But when the cinematographer did a black-and-white test of Eggar he also did a color one that captured the magnificence of her red hair and skin." https://themagnificent60s.com/tag/samantha-eggar/

 

 

1684) Al Wingo

Absalom Holbrook Wingo (1898 – 1964). American baseball player.
He began playing baseball at Oglethorpe University and played professional baseball, primarily as an outfielder, for 15 years from 1918 to 1932. He followed his older brother Ivey to the major leagues in 1919 as an outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics.
He played for the Detroit Tigers from 1924 to 1928 and later played for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League from 1929 to 1931.

 

- "Absalom had red hair, so, naturally he acquired the nickname “Red.” https://www.vintagedetroit.com/al-red-wingo-1925-detroit-tigers-outfielder-with-harry-heilmann-ty-cobb/?srsltid=AfmBOopeXX3ZK9WsArvFI9THRYuESOT2SrcVE_fjyb9eLOauWAViLyvj 

 

1683) Meredith Pinxton Snyder

Meredith Pinxton Snyder (1859 – 1937). California property owner and businessman, who was mayor of Los Angeles on three occasions from 1896 through 1921, and was also on the California Industrial Accident Commission.
He was a Mason and an Elk and a member of the Jonathan Club, the Los Angeles Country Club, the Lomita Gun Club, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights Templar.

 

- "His nickname was Pinky, because of the color of his flaming red side-burns." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_P._Snyder 

 

1682) Pinky Tomlin

Truman Virgil "Pinky" Tomlin (1907 – 1987). American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to performing in occasional motion pictures, he wrote and published 22 songs, several of which were in the top ten on the "Hit Parade". A song he had written in 1938, "In Ole Oklahoma", was named as Oklahoma's state song by the Oklahoma State Junior Chamber of Commerce.

 

- "Sporting a crop of red hair as a boy, he got his nickname "Pinky" because his fair skin sunburned easily." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_Tomlin 

 

1681) J. C. Harrington

Jean Carl Harrington (1901 – 1998). American archaeologist, best known for his work at Jamestown, Virginia and his contributions to the methodology of historical archaeology. He has been called the "father of historical archaeology in America".
Born Jean Carl, Harrington later went by J. C. Harrington or "Pinky." As he said in an autobiography written for his family, "My first name has been a nuisance and annoyance all my life." On Harrington's birth certificate, for example, he was listed as female, which he later corrected.
Harrington contributed largely to the development and legitimization of historical archaeology as a discipline. He published the first summary of the field in 1952 in Archaeology of Eastern United States, entitled "Historic Site Archaeology in the United States." This was followed by "Archaeology as an Auxiliary Science to American History," published in American Anthropologist in 1955, which examined the contributions historical archaeology could make to understanding the recent past. Harrington also published a booklet for the Society for State and Local History, Archaeology and the Historical Society, in 1965. This publication addressed an audience outside the field of archaeology, giving an idea of the types of questions that historical archaeology could address to augment historical research.

 

- "While studying at the University of Chicago, Harrington received the nickname "Pinky" for his red hair and the bright shade of pink he turned when exposed to the sun." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Harrington

 

- "Harrington received the nickname “Pinky” for his red hair and was known assuch throughout his life by friends and family." https://www.crunchbase.com/person/j-c-pinky-harrington

 

1680) William Hargrave

William McKinley "Pinky" Hargrave (1896 – 1942). American baseball catcher. He played professional baseball for 19 years from 1919 to 1937, including 10 years in Major League Baseball with the Washington Senators (1923–1925, 1930–1931), St. Louis Browns (1925–1926), Detroit Tigers (1928–1930), and Boston Braves (1932–1933).
He was the younger brother of Bubbles Hargrave, who was a catcher in the major leagues between 1913 and 1930.

 

- "His flaming red hair inspired his nickname..." https://members.tripod.com/bb_catchers/catchers/hargravep.htm

 

- "They called him Pinky because of his red hair." https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/cdl0tf/happy_birthday_bubbles_hargrave_wait_why_did_they/

 

1679) Cuthbert Burnup

Cuthbert James "Pinky" Burnup (1875 – 1960). English amateur sportsman, who played cricket and football around the turn of the 20th century. Burnup played once for the England football team but is more renowned for playing over 200 first-class cricket matches, mainly for Kent County Cricket Club. He was named as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1903.

 

- "For reasons unknown, at Oxford and for all or most of his playing career Burnup was known as ‘Pinky’. He had red hair but it is not clear if this had any relevance to his nickname." https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One.pd

 

1678) Withers A. Burress

Lieutenant General Withers Alexander Burress (1894 – 1977). United States Army officer. He was a graduate and commandant of the Virginia Military Institute as well as a combat commander in World War I and World War II.
He was nicknamed "Pinky".

 

"Of course. like everyone, I was immediately impressed with his light red hair, fair complexion and abundant supply of freckles." https://www.marshallfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Memories_of_a_Remarkable_General_and_Gentleman.pdf 

 

1677) Grace Mccammon Estabrook

Grace Mccammon Estabrook (1919 - 2011). American physicist.
In 1944, she was hired by Tennessee Eastman to work as an accounting clerk and statistician, and she was one of the few female mathematicians who had a chance to work at both the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.
In 1946, she moved on to the laboratory to take a position as a junior physicist. Over the years, she worked with such notable researchers as Alvin Weinberg, Art Snell, Walt Jordan, E. P. Blizzard, Larry Meem, Sam Beall and Doug Billington. She remained at ORNL and worked for Fred Maienschein until her retirement in 1961.
In 1953 she marrried Jack Estabrook.

 

- "Her relationship with the reactor was so novel that a separate graphite pile used for studies through the use of foils was called Pinky's Pile, so named because she had supervised the building of this small pile and because of her red hair." https://web.ornl.gov/info/reporter/no55/jan_feb04.htm

Estabrook and the Pinky's Pile