Brinkerhoff or Brinckerhoff is a given name derived from a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Charles Brinckerhoff Richards (1833–1919), inventor, gunsmith, engineer (Colt's Patent Fire Arms Co., where he innovated the Colt Single Action Army revolver), Yale University professor J. B. Jackson or John Brinckerhoff "Brinck" Jackson (1909–1996), writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1862–1920), American lawyer and diplomat who spent most of his career in Europe and the Middle East Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary (1852–1946), Chairman of the Democratic Party of Connecticut from 1896 to 1900 Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary, Jr. (1892–1941), graphic artist who imported numerous typefaces from Europe Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby (1881–1943), Episcopal priest and teacher, and the president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 1920 to his death in 1943 Robert Brinckerhoff Fairbairn (1818–1899), third president (aka "The Great Warden") of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, from 1863 to 1898 Samuel Brinckerhoff "Brinck" Thorne (1873–1930), American college football player (Yale), coach, and 1970 inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame