Winifred Explained
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
- "Winifred", by Brymo from (2021)
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 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
- , a Uganda Railway Lake Victoria ferry scuttled in 1936
- , a United States Navy tanker and cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
See also
