People
- Dabo Swinney (born 1969), the head coach of the Clemson University Tigers football team
- David Swinney (1946–2006), prominent psycholinguist
- Harry Swinney (born 1939), American physicist noted for his contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics
- John Swinney (born 1964), Scottish National Party (SNP) 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
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