Winifred is a feminine given name, an anglicization of Welsh Gwenffrewi. It may refer to:

People

  • Saint Winifred, 7th century Welsh saint
  • Winifred Atwell (1914–1983), British pianist
  • Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957), better known simply as Mitchell Baker, American CEO
  • Winifred Benchley, better known as Wendy Benchley, American conservationist
  • Winifred Brown (1899–1984) English sportswoman, aviator and author, first woman to win the King's Cup air race
  • Winifred Brunton (1880–1959), South African painter
  • Winifred Burks-Houck (1950–2004), American organic chemist
  • Winifred Cameron (1918–2016), American astronomer
  • Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Dallas-Yorke; 1863–1954), British humanitarian and animal welfare activist
  • Winifred Copperwheat (1905–1976), English violist
  • Winifred, Countess of Dundonald (1859–1924), Welsh countess and philanthropist
  • 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, prominent Scottish National Party (SNP) politician
  • Winifred Greenwood (1885–1961), 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 (1913–2004), American academic
  • Winifred Herbert (1680–1749), British aristocra known for arranging the escape of her husband from the Tower of London
  • Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), English novelist and journalist
  • Winifred Jordan (1920–2019), English Olympic athlete
  • Lady Winifred Kamit, Papua New Guinean lawyer
  • Winifred Lamb (1894–1963), English archaeologist
  • Winifred Langton (1909–2003), communist, internationalist and activist
  • Winifred Lawson (1892-1961), English opera and concert singer
  • Winifred Lewellin James (1876–1941), Australian writer
  • Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972), English writer, with strong Irish connections, known for her novels, plays and poetry
  • Winifred W. Logan (1931–2010), 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), British painter
  • Winifred Reuning (1953–2015), American writer and editor
  • Winifred Rushforth (1885–1983), Scottish medical practitioner and Christian missionary
  • Winifred Spooner (1900–1933), English aviator
  • Winifred, Lady Strickland (1645–1725), English courtier, member of the Jacobite court in exile
  • Winifred Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton (born 1947), British politician
  • Winifred Todhunter (1877–1961), British educator and 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), American academic in the field of children's theatre
  • Winifred Mary Ward (1884–1975), British speech therapist
  • Winifred "Winnie" Mandela (1936–2018), South African anti-apartheid activist and the second wife of Nelson Mandela

Music

  • "Winifred", by Brymo from 9: Harmattan & Winter (2021)
  • Winifred Ohili Adanu, Nigerian singer

Places

  • Winifred, Montana, a town in the United States
  • Winnifred Beach, a beach in Jamaica

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 "Freddy" Greer, a character in "The Women Who Got Away," a 1995 New Yorker short story by John Updike
  • Winifred "Winnie" Foster, a main character from the American book and movie Tuck Everlasting
  • 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
  • Major Benson Winifred Payne character played by Damon Wayans in the film “Major Payne”

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

  • Winifreda
  • Winifrida
  • Winnifred
  • Winefreda