Winkle may refer to:

Snails

  • Common periwinkle, an edible marine intertidal species found in Europe and North America
  • Any species within the family Littorinidae, the winkles, small intertidal sea snails
  • Some edible species of nerites which are also small aquatic snails, some marine, some freshwater
  • Sometimes applied to certain land species that have an operculum, such as Pomatias elegans, the land winkle
  • Tegula pfeifferi

Places

  • Winkle, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community
  • East Danville, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community also known as Winkle
  • Winkle Island (disambiguation), several places with the name

Fictional characters

  • Bertram Winkle, a butler in the television series Jessie
  • Leslie Winkle, a recurring character in the television series The Big Bang Theory
  • Nathaniel Winkle, in the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  • Wilbert G. Winkle, protagonist of Mr. Winkle Goes to War, a 1944 war comedy film, played by Edward G. Robinson
  • protagonist of Winnie Winkle, an American comic strip (1920–1996), and ten film shorts; also her adopted brother Perry Winkle
  • Witch Winkle, in the British comics magazine Twinkle

Other uses

  • nickname of Eric Brown (pilot) (1919–2016), British Royal Navy officer and test pilot
  • Gregory Winkle (c. 1955–1971), victim of a serial killer
  • Mr. Winkle, a stray dog popularized by his photographer owner
  • Winkle squeeze, a play in the card game of contract bridge
  • James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, part of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
  • Development codename of the RAF's RX12874 radar detector
  • Winkle Brig, a type of sailing boat built between 1985 and 2002

See also

  • Van Winkle, a surname and a list of people with the surname
  • William Te Winkle (born 1954), American politician
  • Bobby Winkles (born 1930), American former Major League Baseball coach and manager and college head coach
  • Winkel (disambiguation)