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

People

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 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

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