Winchester is a historic city in southern England.

Winchester may also refer to:

In Winchester, England

  • Winchester (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Winchester Cathedral
  • Diocese of Winchester
  • Bishop of Winchester
  • Winchester College
  • City of Winchester, the local government district containing Winchester
  • University of Winchester

People with the surname

  • Henry of Winchester (1207–1271), who would become King Henry III of England
  • Henry of Winchester (1101–1171), also known as Henry of Blois, the Bishop of Winchester
  • Benjamin Winchester (1817–1901), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
  • Boyd Winchester (1836–1923), United States Representative from Kentucky
  • Brad Winchester (born 1981) American professional ice hockey player
  • Caleb Thomas Winchester (1847–1920), professor for English literature at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
  • Charles Alexander Winchester (?-1883) consul of the United Kingdom in Shanghai
  • Colin Winchester (1933–1989), highest-ranking officer to be murdered in Australian policing history
  • Elhanan Winchester (1751–1797), preacher
  • Ernie Winchester (1944–2013), Scottish footballer
  • Ian Winchester (born 1973), discus thrower from New Zealand
  • Jack Winchester (disambiguation)
  • Jesse Winchester (1944–2014), stage name of musician James Ridout Winchester
  • Jesse Winchester (ice hockey) (born 1983), Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • John de Winchester (d. 1460), bishop of Moray
  • Jude Winchester, Northern Irish footballer
  • Mary Winchester (Zoluti) (1865–1955), English girl kidnapped by Mizos
  • Olive Winchester (1879–1947), pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene
  • Oliver Winchester (1810–1880), largest stockholder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
  • Philip Winchester, American actor
  • Sarah Winchester (1837–1922), wife of William Winchester and builder of the Winchester Mystery House
  • Scott Winchester (born 1973), American former Major League Baseball player
  • Shurwayne Winchester (born 1974), soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago
  • Simon Winchester (born 1944), author and journalist
  • William Wirt Winchester (1838–1881), son of Oliver Winchester

Fictional characters

  • Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, a character in the television series M*A*S*H
  • Dean Winchester, a character in the television series Supernatural
  • John Winchester (Supernatural), a character in the television series Supernatural
  • Mary Winchester (Supernatural), a character in the television series Supernatural
  • Sam Winchester, a character in the television series Supernatural

Places

United States

  • Winchester, Arkansas
  • Winchester, California
  • Winchester (San Jose), a neighborhood of San Jose, California
  • Winchester Transit Center, a light rail station in Campbell, California
  • Winchester, Connecticut
  • Winchester, Georgia
  • Winchester, Idaho
  • Winchester, Illinois
  • Winchester, Indiana
  • Winchester, Iowa
  • Winchester, Kansas
  • Winchester, Kentucky
  • Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland
  • Winchester, Massachusetts
  • Winchester, Michigan
  • Winchester, Mississippi
  • Winchester, Missouri
  • Winchester, Clark County, Missouri
  • Winchester, Nevada
  • Winchester, New Hampshire, a New England town
  • Winchester (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town
  • Winchester, Adams County, Ohio
  • Winchester, Jackson County, Ohio
  • Winchester, Richland County, Ohio
  • Winchester, Oklahoma
  • Winchester, Woods County, Oklahoma
  • Winchester, Oregon
  • Winchester, Tennessee
  • Winchester, Texas
  • Winchester, Virginia
  • Winchester, Grant County, Washington, an unincorporated community
  • Winchester, Vilas County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Winchester (community), Vilas County, Wisconsin, unincorporated community within the town
  • Winchester, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Winchester, Wyoming

Elsewhere

  • 747 Winchester, an asteroid
  • Winchester, Ontario, Canada
  • Winchester, New Zealand
  • Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester, Manitoba, Canada
  • Rural Municipality of Winchester, Manitoba, now incorporated into Deloraine-Winchester.

Computers and software

  • Winchester, code name for an Athlon 64 processor model
  • Winchester disk, a once-common generic name for hard disks, from the code name for the early IBM 3340 storage system
  • Winchester connector, a connector for wideband modems located on layer 1 on the OSI model, specified in the ITU-T Recommendation V.35 standard and later in Rec. V.11

Entertainment

  • The Winchesters, an American fantasy television series, spin-off of the WB/CW show Supernatural
  • The Winchester, a fictional English pub in the movie Shaun of the Dead
  • Winchester '73, an American Western movie released in 1950 starring James Stewart, remade as a made-for-TV film in 1967
  • Winchester (film), a 2018 American horror film

Firearms

  • Winchester Repeating Arms Company, manufacturer of Winchester firearms
  • Winchester rifle, a lever-action rifle popular in the US since the mid-19th century
  • 9×23mm Winchester, a centerfire pistol cartridge (introduced c. 1996)

Vessels

  • HMS Winchester, a name used seven times for Royal Navy warships from 1693–1946
  • USS Winchester (SP-156), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917–1919
  • Winchester, the class name for the military BHC SR.N6

Weights and measures

  • Winchester measure, an archaic set of weights and measures
  • Winchester quart, an archaic measure of volume

Other uses

  • Book of Winchester (also known as the Domesday Book), the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086 for William I
  • Fort Winchester, an American military fortification 1812 located in northwest Ohio
  • Winchester (bottle), used in laboratories for the storage of corrosive chemicals
  • Winchester Mystery House, a well-known mansion in San Jose, California, United States
  • The Winchester, Highgate, a London pub, England, United Kingdom
  • WINCHESTER, a multi-service tactical brevity code procedure word meaning "No ordnance remaining"

See also