Pinckney Warren Russell (April 25, 1864–September 24, 1941) was an American classics scholar, Presbyterian pastor, and educator.

He was a department chair and taught Greek at Biddle University (now Johnson C. Smith University) in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was an early African American Classicist in North Carolina.

[1] When he was young it was the Reconstruction era in the U.S., and he struggled to find educational opportunities as a Black child.

[1] Russell attended Hoge School for Colored Children in the city of Newberry in South Carolina.

[2] His parents died young and he worked at a cotton factory at Pelzer, South Carolina.