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Winifred is a feminine given name, an anglicization of
Welsh Gwenffrewi , from gwen , "fair", and ffrew , "stillness". It may refer to:
People
Saint Winifred
Winifred Atwell (1914–1983), a pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain in the 1950s with a series of boogie woogie and ragtime hits
Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957), better known simply as
Mitchell Baker , the "Chief Lizard Wrangler" and the President of the Mozilla Corporation
Winifred, Countess of Dundonald , wife of Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
Winifred Brown (1899–1984) English sportswoman, aviator and author, first woman to win the
King's Cup air race
Winifred Brunton (1880–1959), a painter from South Africa
Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Dallas-Yorke; 1863–1954), wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
Winifred Copperwheat (1905–1976), English violist
Winifred Crossley Fair (1906–1984) British aviator, one of the First Eight women pilots to join the
Air Transport Auxiliary .
Winifred Starr Dobyns (1886–1963), American suffragist and landscape designer
Winifred Drinkwater (1913–1996) Scottish aviator and aeroplane engineer, first woman in the world to hold a
commercial pilot's licence .
Winifred Ewing (1929–2023), commonly known as
Winnie Ewing , a prominent Scottish National Party (SNP) politician
Winifred Greenwood , American silent film actress
Winifred Hackett (1906–1994) British
electrical and
aeronautical engineer who worked on
guided weapon systems and the
DEUCE computer
Winifred G. Helmes , American academic
Winifred Herbert (1680–1749), best known for arranging the daring escape of her husband from the Tower of London in 1716
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), an English novelist and journalist
Winifred Jordan (née Jeffrey; 1920–2019), an English athlete who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games and the 1948 Summer Olympics
Lady
Winifred Kamit , Papua New Guinean lawyer
Winifred Lamb (1894–1963, an English archaeologist of the early 20th century
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961), an English opera and concert singer
Winifred Lewellin James (1876–1941), an Australian writer
Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972), an English writer, with strong Irish connections, known for her novels, plays and poetry
Winifred W. Logan (1931–2010) was a British Nurse theorist who was co-author of the
Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing
Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), the first American female to receive a PhD in mathematics
Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981), a painter
Winifred Rushforth (1885–1983), a Jungian psychoanalyst
Winifred Spooner (1900–1933), an aviator of the 1920s and 1930s
Winifred, Lady Strickland (1645–1725), English courtier, member of the Jacobite court in exile
Winifred
Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton (born 1947), a politician
Winifred Todhunter (1877–1961), the founder of the Todhunter School for girls
Winifred Tumim (1936–2009), English charity administrator
Winifred "Freda" Utley (1898–1978), English scholar, political activist and best-selling author
Winifred Wagner (1897–1980), head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945 and a close friend of German dictator Adolf Hitler
Winifred Ward (1884–1975), a professor at Northwestern College most notable for having done significant work in the field of children's theatre
Winifred Mary Ward (1884–1975), one of the founders of modern speech therapy
Winifred "Winnie" Mandela (1936–2018), former wife of South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela
Music
Places
Fictional characters
Dora-Winifred "D.W." Read, a character from the animated series
Arthur
Winifred Banks (Mrs. Banks), a character from Mary Poppins who appears as a suffragette in the 1964 Disney film and as a fashionable housewife in the Broadway musical
Winifred Burkle , known as "Fred", a main character in the 1999 television series Angel
Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson, the main antagonist in the 1993 film
Hocus Pocus
Winifred Fowl (or Ms. Fowl), Jimmy’s teacher in the animated film
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and the animated series
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
Winifred "Winnie" Foster, a main character from the American book and movie
Tuck Everlasting
Winifred Hailey , a character from the
Scott Pilgrim franchise
Winifred "Wendy" Torrance, a main character from the American book and movie
The Shining
Winifred Brooks, a character in the TV series “A Different World”
Winifred "Fred" Grant a character voiced by
Joey King in the Disney Channel animated series "
Hamster and Gretel "
Winifred Portley-Rind, "Winnie" in the film 'The Boxtrolls'
Ships
SS Winifred (1901) , a Uganda Railway Lake Victoria ferry scuttled in 1936
USS Winifred , a United States Navy tanker and cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
See also
Topics referred to by the same term