Nightingale (surname)

Nightingale is an English surname, originally a nickname for someone with a good voice. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• The Nightingale Baronetcy, an aristocratic title in the Baronetage of England, created in 1628
• Adam Nightingale (born 1979), American ice hockey coach
• Albert Nightingale (1923–2006), English footballer
• Andrea Nightingale (born 1959), American classical scholar
• Annie Nightingale (1940–2024), English radio broadcaster
• Anthony Nightingale (born 1947), Hong Kong businessman
• Benedict Nightingale (born 1939), British journalist
• Danny Nightingale (born 1954),British modern pentathlete
• Danny Nightingale (soldier) (born 1975), British soldier
• David Nightingale, English footballer
• Deborah Nightingale, American industrial engineer
• Earl Nightingale (1921–1989), American motivational speaker
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), British pioneer of modern nursing and statistician
• Frances Parthenope Verney, nee Nightingale (1819–1890), British novelist, economist, social commentator, and journalist.
• Gardner Nightingale (1920-2013), American soldier and business founder
• James Nightingale (rugby league) (born 1986), Papua New Guinean rugby league player
• James Nightingale (English footballer)
• Jared Nightingale (born 1982), American ice hockey defenceman
• Jason Nightingale (born 1986), New Zealand rugby player
• John Nightingale (actor) (c.1943–1980), British actor
• John Nightingale (figure skater) (born 1928), American figure skater
• John Nightingale (MP) for Leicester (UK Parliament constituency)
• Joseph Nightingale (1775–1824), English writer and preacher
• Kathryn R. Nightingale, American biomedical engineer and academic
• Luke Nightingale (born 1980), English footballer
• Lynn Nightingale (born 1956), Canadian figure skater
• Margie Nightingale, Australian politician
• Mark Nightingale (born 1967), British jazz trombonist
• Mary Nightingale (born 1963), English newsreader and television presenter
• Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British soul music singer
• Michael Nightingale (1922–1999), English actor
• Neil Nightingale, British naturalist and television producer
• Tunde Nightingale (Earnest Olatunde Thomas) (1922–1981), Nigerian singer and guitarist
• Wally Nightingale (1956–1996), English guitarist of the Sex Pistols
• Rabbi Tzvi Nightingale (born 1960) Canadian American Rabbi
• Will Nightingale (born 1995), English footballer
• William Nightingale (1794–1874), English Unitarian, the father of Florence Nightingale