Pinsker is an habitational surname for someone from Pinsk, in Belarus. Notable people with the surname include:
Leon Pinsker (1821–1891), Russian physician and Zionist activist Mark Semenovich Pinsker (1925–2003), Russian mathematician Sarah Pinsker, American science fiction and fantasy author Scott Pinsker, filmmaker, talk show host, and author Simhah Pinsker (1801–1864), Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist