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