Winter (surname)
Winter is a surname.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 40.7% of all known bearers of the surname Winter were residents of Germany, 22.9% of the United States, 9.5% of England, 4.4% of Austria, 3.9% of Australia, 3.4% of Brazil, 3.0% of Canada, 1.7% of the Netherlands, 1.4% of South Africa and 1.3% of France.In Austria, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states:
- 1. Lower Austria
- 2. Salzburg
- 3. Vienna
- 4. Styria
- 1. Bremen
- 2. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- 3. Hesse
- 4. Saxony-Anhalt
- 5. Saarland
- 6. Saxony
- 7. Bavaria
- 8. Brandenburg
- 9. Thuringia
- 10. Lower Saxony
- 1. East Sussex
- 2. County Durham
- 3. Isle of Wight
- 4. Cumbria
- 5. Northumberland
- 6. East Riding of Yorkshire
- 7. Tyne and Wear
- 8. Somerset
- 9. Bristol
- 10. Lincolnshire
- 11. Hampshire
- 12. Dorset
- 13. Norfolk
- 14. Surrey
- 15. Rutland
- 16. Kent
- 17. Hertfordshire
- 18. Gloucestershire
- 19. Cambridgeshire
- 20. Bedfordshire
- 21. Wiltshire
- 22. Buckinghamshire
- 23. Berkshire
- 24. Devon
- 25. South Yorkshire
- 26. West Sussex
- 27. North Yorkshire
- 28. Nottinghamshire
Disambiguation pages
- Edward Winter, multiple people
- John Winter, multiple people
- Michael Winter, multiple people
- Ralph Winter, multiple people
- William Winter, multiple people
Arts and entertainment
- Agnes-Nicole Winter, Swedish television personality
- Alex Winter, British-American actor and director
- Amalie Winter, poet and novelist
- Andrew Winter, American artist
- Andy Winter, British comics writer
- Ariel Winter, American actress and voice actress
- Carl Winter, British art historian and museum curator
- Chelsea Winter, New Zealand celebrity chef, entrepreneur, food writer, and television personality
- Claude Winter, actress
- Cris Winter, radio personality
- Damon Winter, New York based photographer
- David Alexandre Winter, Dutch-born pop singer
- Donovan Winter, British film director, actor, and writer
- Dorothea Winter, German recorder player and recorder teacher
- Edgar Winter, American musician
- Eric Winter, American actor
- Ethel Winter, American dancer and dance instructor
- Ezra Winter, prominent American muralist
- Fritz Winter, German painter
- Glen Winter, Canadian television director, cinematographer, and producer
- Guilherme Winter, Brazilian actor
- H. Edward Winter, American enamel artist
- Harald Winter, artist
- Harry A. Winter, lawyer, journalist, judge, and political figure
- Harry Winter, German-Austrian singer, musician, and band director
- Johnny Winter, American singer, songwriter, musician
- Julia Winter, Swedish-British actress
- Katia Winter, Swedish actress
- Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist
- Laska Winter, American actress
- Ophélie Winter, French singer and actress
- Paul Winter, American musician
- Peter Winter, German dramatic composer
- Ralph Winter , American film producer
- Ronnie Winter, lead singer of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Samira Winter, singer in the pop band Winter
- Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning American screenwriter and television producer
- Thelma Frazier Winter, American ceramist
- Veronika Winter, German soprano
- Victoria Winter, beauty queen, model, and television presenter
- Vincent Winter, Scottish child actor
Business
- Benjamin Winter, Sr., American real estate developer
- Edwin Winter, president of Northern Pacific Railway
- Eirik Winter, international banker
Journalism and literature
- Alice Ames Winter, American litterateur, author, clubwoman, suffragist
- Brenno de Winter, Dutch ICT and investigative journalist
- Douglas E. Winter, American author and editor
- Henry Winter, British journalist
- John Strange Winter, pen-name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard, English novelist
- Samuel Vincent Winter, Australian newspaperman and mayor of Richmond, Victoria
- Zikmund Winter, Czech novelist and historian
Military
- August Winter, German general
- Donald C. Winter, US Secretary of the Navy
Politics and law
- Beth Winter, British Member of Parliament elected 2019
- Bob Winter, Lord Provost of Glasgow
- Brad Winter, American politician from the state of New Mexico
- Elmer Winter, American lawyer who co-founded the Manpower Inc.
- Faith Winter, U.S. legislator
- Frank Winter, South Island Māori leader
- Gordon Arnaud Winter, Canadian politician
- Harrison Lee Winter, United States federal judge
- James Spearman Winter, Canadian politician
- Klaus Winter, German judge
- Martin Winter , Mayor of Doncaster, England
- Ralph K. Winter Jr., American judge
- Steven Winter, American law professor
Religion
- Allen Winter, Anglican Bishop
- Bruce W. Winter, conservative evangelical New Testament scholar
- Colin Winter, English Anglican bishop
- Cornelius Winter, Methodist preacher
- Daniel Winter, one of the three main founders of the Orange Order
- Miriam Therese Winter, Catholic theologian
- Terry Winter, Canadian religious leader
Sciences
- Andreas Winter, German mathematician and mathematical physicist
- Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist
- Ernő Winter, engineer who developed barium lamps
- George D. Winter, British medical researcher
- Greg Winter, British antibodies researcher
- Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
- Heinrich Georg Winter, German mycologist
Sports
- Adrian Winter, Swiss professional footballer
- Andy Winter, Scottish footballer
- Aron Winter, Dutch footballer
- Arthur Winter, English priest and cricketer
- Blaise Winter, American football coach and former player
- Brian Winter, Scottish former football referee
- Cliff Winter, English footballer
- Elaine Winter , South African sprinter
- Elaine Winter , German figure skater
- Fred Winter, British National Hunt racing racehorse jockey and trainer
- Nick Winter, Australian athlete
- Peter Winter , Australian decathlete
- Rudolf Winter, Czechoslovakian 1928 Olympic sailor
- Stefan Winter, German national ski mountaineering coach and alpine sports author
- Tex Winter, American basketball coach
- Trevor Winter, American basketball player
Other
- Christopher Winter, English pirate active in the Caribbean
- David A. Winter, distinguished professor emeritus of the University of Waterloo
- Ella Winter, Australian-British journalist and activist
- Elly Winter, German communist and notable political activist
- Howie Winter, American convicted criminal
- Jay Winter, Professor of History
- Miriam Winter, German Nazi Holocaust survivor
- Solomon Winter, Hungarian philanthropist
- Timothy Winter, British Islamic scholar