Chinnery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Broderick Chinnery (1742–1808), Irish politician and baronet Dennis Chinnery (1927–2012), British actor Derek Chinnery (1925–2015), controller of BBC Radio 1 Doug Chinnery (b. 1964), landscape photographer Ernest Chinnery (1887–1972), Australian anthropologist Esmé Chinnery (1886–1915), English soldier and aviator George Chinnery (1774–1852), English painter George Chinnery (bishop) (d.1780), Anglican bishop in Ireland Harry Chinnery (1876–1916), English cricketer Patrick Chinnery (born 1968), professor of neurogenetics at the University of Cambridge Sarah Chinnery (1887–1970), British-Australian photographer Tony Chinnery, builder of historical keyboard instruments