Winifred is a feminine given name, an anglicization of Welsh
Gwenffrewi, from
gwen, "fair", and
ffrew, "stillness". It may refer to:
People
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Saint Winifred, 7th century Welsh saint
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Winifred Atwell (1914–1983), British pianist
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Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957), better known simply as Mitchell Baker, American CEO
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Winifred, Countess of Dundonald (1859–1924), Welsh countess and philanthropist
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Winifred Brown (1899–1984) English sportswoman, aviator and author, first woman to win the King's Cup air race
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Winifred Brunton (1880–1959), South African painter
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Winifred Burks-Houck (1950–2004), American organic chemist
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Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Dallas-Yorke; 1863–1954), British humanitarian and animal welfare activist
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Winifred Copperwheat (1905–1976), English violist
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Winifred Crossley Fair (1906–1984) British aviator, one of the First Eight women pilots to join the Air Transport Auxiliary.
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Winifred Starr Dobyns (1886–1963), American suffragist and landscape designer
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Winifred Drinkwater (1913–1996) Scottish aviator and aeroplane engineer, first woman in the world to hold a commercial pilot's licence.
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Winifred Ewing (1929–2023), commonly known as Winnie Ewing, prominent Scottish National Party (SNP) politician
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Winifred Greenwood ( 1885–1961), American silent film actress
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Winifred Hackett (1906–1994) British electrical and aeronautical engineer who worked on Guided weapons and the DEUCE computer
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Winifred G. Helmes (1913–2004), American academic
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Winifred Herbert (1680–1749), British aristocra known for arranging the escape of her husband from the Tower of London
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Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), English novelist and journalist
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Winifred Jordan (1920–2019), English Olympic athlete
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Lady Winifred Kamit, Papua New Guinean lawyer
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Winifred Lamb (1894–1963), English archaeologist
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Winifred Langton (1909–2003), communist, internationalist and activist
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Winifred Lawson (1892-1961), English opera and concert singer
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Winifred Lewellin James (1876–1941), Australian writer
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Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972), English writer, with strong Irish connections, known for her novels, plays and poetry
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Winifred W. Logan (1931–2010), British Nurse theorist who was co-author of the Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing
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Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), the first American female to receive a PhD in mathematics
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Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981), British painter
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Winifred Reuning (1953–2015), American writer and editor
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Winifred Rushforth (1885–1983), Scottish medical practitioner and Christian missionary
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Winifred Spooner (1900–1933), English aviator
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Winifred, Lady Strickland (1645–1725), English courtier, member of the Jacobite court in exile
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Winifred Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton (born 1947), British politician
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Winifred Todhunter (1877–1961), British educator and founder of the Todhunter School for girls
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Winifred Tumim (1936–2009), English charity administrator
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Winifred Utley (1898–1978), English scholar, political activist and best-selling author
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Winifred Wagner (1897–1980), head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945 and a close friend of German dictator Adolf Hitler
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Winifred Ward (1884–1975), American academic in the field of children's theatre
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Winifred Mary Ward (1884–1975), British speech therapist
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Winnie Mandela (1936–2018), South African anti-apartheid activist and the second wife of Nelson Mandela
Music
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"Winifred", by Brymo from (2021)
Places
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Winifred, Montana, a town in the United States
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Winifred Beach, a beach in Jamaica
Fictional characters
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Dora Winifred "D.W." Read, a character from the animated series Arthur
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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
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Winifred Burkle, known as "Fred", a main character in the 1999 television series Angel
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Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson, the main antagonist in the 1993 film Hocus Pocus
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Winifred "Winnie" Foster, a main character from the American book and movie Tuck Everlasting
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Winifred "Fred" Grant, a character voiced by Joey King in the Disney Channel animated series "Hamster and Gretel"
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Winifred Portley-Rind, "Winnie" in the film The Boxtrolls
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Major Benson Winifred Payne character played by Damon Wayans in the film “Major Payne”
Ships
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, a Uganda Railway Lake Victoria ferry scuttled in 1936
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, a United States Navy tanker and cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
See also
