Winifred

Winifred is a feminine given name from the Anglo-Saxon wine ("friend", "lord", "protector") and friþ ("peace"). It may refer to:

People

• Saint Winefride
• 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 Bamford-Hesketh, Countess of Dundonald, wife of Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
• Winifred Brunton (1880–1959), a painter from South Africa most famous for her haunting portraits of Egyptian pharaohs
• 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
• Dr. Winifred Margaret 'Winnie' Ewing (born 1929), commonly known as Winnie Ewing, a prominent Scottish National Party (SNP) politician
• Winifred Greenwood, American silent film actress
• 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; born 1920), 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, a pioneering 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 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 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 (born 1936), former wife of South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela

Places

• Winifred, Montana, a town in the United States
• Winifred Beach, a beach in Jamaica

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 "Winnie" Sanderson, eldest and most powerful witch of the three Sanderson Sisters and the main antagonist from Hocus Pocus, a 1993 Halloween-themed fantasy/comedy film that was released by Disney and directed by Kenny Ortega. Winifred was portrayed by Bette Midler.
• Winifred "Winnie" Foster, a main character from the American book and movie Tuck Everlasting.
• Winifred Burkle, known as "Fred", a main character in the 1999 television series Angel.
• Winifred "Wendy" Torrance, a main character from the American book and movie The Shining. She is portrayed by Shelley Duvall.

Ships

• SS Winifred (1901), a Uganda Railway Lake Victoria ferry scuttled in 1936
• USS Winifred (ID-1319), a United States Navy tanker and cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919

See also

• Winifreda
• Winnifred