Swinney may refer to:
People Dabo Swinney (born 1969), the head coach of the Clemson University Tigers football team David Swinney (1946–2006), prominent psycholinguist Harry Swinney (1939–2026), American physicist noted for his contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics John Swinney (born 1964), Scottish politician Pat Swinney Kaufman (born 1950), executive director of the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development Youell Swinney (1917–1994), the only major suspect in the Phantom Killer case in Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946
Places Swinney Recreation Center, University of Missouri-Kansas City Swinney Switch, Texas, an unincorporated community also known as Swinney See also Gollub-Swinney circular Couette experiment helped establish the Ruelle-Takens scenario for turbulence