George Pinker (1924-2007), British obstetrician and gynecologist
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Steven Pinker (born 1954), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist and popular science author
Like Eriksen, Louis Menand, writing for The New Yorker, also claimed that Pinker's arguments constituted a strawman fallacy, stating "many pages of 'The Blank Slate' are devoted to bashing away at the Lockean-Rousseauian-Cartesian scarecrow that Pinker has created."
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Anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen argued that most of Pinker's arguments were flawed since they employed a strawman fallacy argumentation style, and selectively picked supporting evidence as well as foils.
In the 2009 series Pink Panther and Pals, a scene from "A Pinker Tomorrow" in which the Pink Panther tricks the Little Man (Big Nose) to cover the outside of the house in paint, is homage to the original short.
On 12 October 2011, the Right Reverened Vincent Nichols gave the first annual Sir George Pinker Memorial Address.