People
Poyntz is a family name that has roots in medieval England and Ireland.
- Hugh Poyntz (1877–1955), English soldier and cricketer
- John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, Earl of Spencer from 1857 to his death in 1910
- Juliet Poyntz, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a founding member of the Communist Party of the United States
- Massey Poyntz (1883–1934), English cricketer
- Nicholas Poyntz
- Sarah Poyntz (born 1926), Irish journalist and author
- Sydnam Poyntz, an English soldier, served in the Thirty Years' War and in the Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War
- William Poyntz (disambiguation), several people
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