Picknell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
George Picknell (1813–1863), English cricketer Robert Picknell (1816–1869), English cricketer William Lamb Picknell (1853–1897), American painter Gavin Bruce Picknell, Arachnologist responsible for the discovery of Steatoda nobilis in New Zealand
See also Pickrell, surname
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