Drinker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (ca. 1735-1807), 18th-entury Quaker diarist Edith May (pseudonym of Anne Drinker; 1827–1903), American poet Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), American paleontologist and comparative anatomist Henry Sturgis Drinker (1850-1937), President of Lehigh University f Catherine Ann Drinker (1841–1922), American artist and author Henry Sandwith Drinker (1880-1965), American lawyer and musicologist Sophie Drinker (1888–1967), American amateur musician and musicologist Philip Drinker (1894-1972), industrial hygienist who invented the first iron lung Cecil Kent Drinker (1887-1956), American physician and founder of the Harvard School of Public Health Katherine Rotan Drinker (1889-1956), physician, Catherine Drinker Bowen, born Catherine Drinker (1897-1973), American biographer Ernesta Drinker Ballard, born Ernesta Drinker (1920-2005), American feminist and horticulturist