Family
- grandfather Ernest Patterson:
- father Clarence Martin Hingle: abandoned family c. 1930
- mother Marvin Louise Hingle:
- child Jody Hingle: mother, Alyce Dorsey
- son Billy Hingle: mother, Alyce Dorsey
- daughter Molly Hingle: mother, Alyce Dorsey
Companions
- wife Alyce Dorsey: married on June 3, 1947; divorced; mother of Hingle's three children; stage-managed first show Hingle was in at University of Texas
- wife Julia Wright: married on October 25, 1979; met on location in El Paso, Texas when Hingle was filming "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" (1979); worked at the bank where the crew cashed their checks
