Eleanor Whilden Tinsley (October 31, 1926 – February 10, 2009) was an American city council and school board member. She was named to the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 1988. The daughter of W. C. Whilden and Georgiabel Burleson, she was born in Dallas and grew up there. She was educated at the College of William and Mary and went on to earn a bachelor's degree at Baylor University. She married James Aubrey Tinsley in 1948 and moved to Houston in 1953; the couple had three children. She died from cancer in Houston at the age of 82.