Winnifred Explained

Winnifred is a given name.

People

Notable people with the name include:

• Winnifred Eaton (1875–1954), Canadian author
• Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874–1967), American author and lecturer
• Winnifred Hudson (1905–1996), British-born painter
• Winnifred Quick (1904–2002), one of the last four remaining survivors of the sinking of RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, one of the last two remaining survivors to have memory of the crash, sinking, and escape.
• Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck (1882–1936), American journalist and politician from the state of Illinois
• Winnifred Sarah Train (1904–1979), New Zealand army nurse, hospital matron, nurses' association leader
• Winnifred Teo Suan Lie (1967–-1985), Singaporean student and victim of an unsolved rape-murder case
• Winnifred Wygal (1884–1972), American theological writer, lecturer, YWCA leader

Fictional Characters

• Winnifred Torrance, Protagonist of Stephen King's 1977 novel, The Shining, and Stanley Kubrick's 1980 homonymous film, The Shining.

Places

• Winnifred, Alberta, hamlet in the Canadian province of Alberta
• Winnifred Street Bridge (also known asWSDOT Bridge No. 1130), concrete box girder bridge in Ruston, Washington

See also

• Winifred (disambiguation)