Winifred

Winifred is a feminine given name, an anglicization of Welsh Gwenffrewi, from gwen, "fair", and ffrew, "stillness". It may refer to:

People

• Saint Winifred, 7th century Welsh saint
• Winifred Atwell (1914–1983), British pianist
• Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957), better known simply as Mitchell Baker, American CEO
• Winifred, Countess of Dundonald (1859–1924), Welsh countess and philanthropist
• Winifred Brown (1899–1984) English sportswoman, aviator and author, first woman to win the King's Cup air race
• Winifred Brunton (1880–1959), South African painter
• Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Dallas-Yorke; 1863–1954), British humanitarian and animal welfare activist
• 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, prominent Scottish National Party (SNP) politician
• Winifred Greenwood ( 1885–1961), 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 (1913–2004), American academic
• Winifred Herbert (1680–1749), British aristocra known for arranging the escape of her husband from the Tower of London
• Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), English novelist and journalist
• Winifred Jordan (1920–2019), English Olympic athlete
• Lady Winifred Kamit, Papua New Guinean lawyer
• Winifred Lamb (1894–1963), English archaeologist
• Winifred Lawson (1892-1961), English opera and concert singer
• Winifred Lewellin James (1876–1941), Australian writer
• Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972), English writer, with strong Irish connections, known for her novels, plays and poetry
• Winifred W. Logan (1931–2010), 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), British painter
• Winifred Reuning (1953–2015), American writer and editor
• Winifred Rushforth (1885–1983), Scottish medical practitioner and Christian missionary
• Winifred Spooner (1900–1933), English aviator
• Winifred, Lady Strickland (1645–1725), English courtier, member of the Jacobite court in exile
• Winifred Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton (born 1947), British politician
• Winifred Todhunter (1877–1961), British educator and 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), American academic in the field of children's theatre
• Winifred Mary Ward (1884–1975), British speech therapist
• Winifred "Winnie" Mandela (1936–2018), South African anti-apartheid activist and the second wife of Nelson Mandela

Music

• "Winifred", by Brymo from 9: Harmattan & Winter (2021)

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 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

• Winifreda
• Winifrida
• Winnifred
• Winefreda