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 (frequency 1:992), 22.9% of the United States (1:7,932), 9.5% of England (1:2,952), 4.4% of Austria (1:974), 3.9% of Australia (1:3,034), 3.4% of Brazil (1:30,666), 3.0% of Canada (1:6,132), 1.7% of the Netherlands (1:4,879), 1.4% of South Africa (1:20,013) and 1.3% of France (1:26,529).

In Austria, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:974) in the following states:

1. Lower Austria (1:671)
2. Salzburg (1:798)
3. Vienna (1:802)
4. Styria (1:848)

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:992) in the following states:

1. Bremen (1:674)
2. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:695)
3. Hesse (1:719)
4. Saxony-Anhalt (1:737)
5. Saarland (1:831)
6. Saxony (1:839)
7. Bavaria (1:887)
8. Brandenburg (1:895)
9. Thuringia (1:910)
10. Lower Saxony (1:977)

In England, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:2,952) in the following counties:^[1]

1. East Sussex (1:1,284)
2. County Durham (1:1,291)
3. Isle of Wight (1:1,470)
4. Cumbria (1:1,521)
5. Northumberland (1:1,597)
6. East Riding of Yorkshire (1:1,637)
7. Tyne and Wear (1:1,638)
8. Somerset (1:1,698)
9. Bristol (1:1,766)
10. Lincolnshire (1:1,864)
11. Hampshire (1:2,018)
12. Dorset (1:2,102)
13. Norfolk (1:2,143)
14. Surrey (1:2,150)
15. Rutland (1:2,232)
16. Kent (1:2,259)
17. Hertfordshire (1:2,270)
18. Gloucestershire (1:2,288)
19. Cambridgeshire (1:2,464)
20. Bedfordshire (1:2,476)
21. Wiltshire (1:2,581)
22. Buckinghamshire (1:2,592)
23. Berkshire (1:2,593)
24. Devon (1:2,596)
25. South Yorkshire (1:2,780)
26. West Sussex (1:2,835)
27. North Yorkshire (1:2,910)
28. Nottinghamshire (1:2,922)

Disambiguation pages[]

Edward Winter (disambiguation), multiple people
John Winter (disambiguation), multiple people
Michael Winter (disambiguation), multiple people
Ralph Winter (disambiguation), multiple people
William Winter (disambiguation), multiple people

Arts and entertainment[]

Agnes-Nicole Winter (born 1956), Swedish television personality
Alex Winter (born 1965), British-American actor and director
Amalie Winter (1802–1879), poet and novelist
Andrew Winter (1893–1958), American artist
Andy Winter, British comics writer
Ariel Winter (born 1998), American actress and voice actress
Carl Winter (1906–1966), British art historian and museum curator
Chelsea Winter, New Zealand celebrity chef, entrepreneur, food writer, and television personality
Claude Winter (1931–2011), actress
Cris Winter, radio personality
Damon Winter (born 1974), New York based photographer
David Alexandre Winter (born 1943), Dutch-born pop singer
Donovan Winter (?–2015), British film director, actor, and writer
Dorothea Winter (1949–2012), German recorder player and recorder teacher
Edgar Winter (born 1946), American musician
Eric Winter (born 1976), American actor
Ethel Winter (1924–2012), American dancer and dance instructor
Ezra Winter (1886–1949), prominent American muralist
Faith Winter (artist) (1927–2017), British sculptor
Fritz Winter (1905–1976), German painter
Glen Winter, Canadian television director, cinematographer, and producer
Guilherme Winter (born 1979), Brazilian actor
H. Edward Winter (1908–1976), American enamel artist
Harald Winter (born 1953), artist
Harry A. Winter (1889–1969), lawyer, journalist, judge, and political figure
Harry Winter (1914–2001), German-Austrian singer, musician, and band director
Johnny Winter (1944–2014), American singer, songwriter, musician
Julia Winter (born 1993), Swedish-British actress
Katia Winter (born 1983), Swedish actress
Kurt Winter (1946–1997), Canadian guitarist
Laska Winter (1905–1980), American actress
Ophélie Winter (born 1974), French singer and actress
Paul Winter (born 1939), American musician
Peter Winter (1754–1825), German dramatic composer
Ralph Winter (producer) (born 1952), American film producer
Ronnie Winter, lead singer of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Samira Winter (born 1991), singer in the pop band Winter
Terence Winter (born 1960), Emmy Award-winning American screenwriter and television producer
Thelma Frazier Winter (1908–1977), American ceramist
Veronika Winter (born 1965), German soprano
Vincent Winter (1947–1998), Scottish child actor

Business[]

Benjamin Winter, Sr. (1882–1944), American real estate developer
Edwin Winter (1845–?), president of Northern Pacific Railway
Eirik Winter, international banker

Journalism and literature[]

Alice Ames Winter (1865–1944), American litterateur, author, clubwoman, suffragist
Brenno de Winter (born 1971), Dutch ICT and investigative journalist
Douglas E. Winter (born 1950), American author and editor
Henry Winter (born 1963), British journalist
John Strange Winter (1856–1911), pen-name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard, English novelist
Robert Winter (1924–2019), Californian historian
Samuel Vincent Winter (1843–1904), Australian newspaperman and mayor of Richmond, Victoria
Zikmund Winter (1846–1912), Czech novelist and historian

Military[]

August Winter (1897–1979), German general
Donald C. Winter (born 1947), US Secretary of the Navy

Politics and law[]

Beth Winter, British Member of Parliament elected 2019
Bob Winter (born 1937), Lord Provost of Glasgow
Brad Winter (born 1952), American politician from the state of New Mexico
Elmer Winter (1912–2009), American lawyer who co-founded the Manpower Inc.
Faith Winter (born 1980), U.S. legislator
Frank Winter (1906–1976), South Island Māori leader
Gordon Arnaud Winter (1912–2003), Canadian politician
Harrison Lee Winter (1921–1990), United States federal judge
James Spearman Winter (1845–1911), Canadian politician
Klaus Winter (1936–2000), German judge
Ludwig Georg Winter (1778–1838), German politician
Martin Winter (mayor) (born 1962), Mayor of Doncaster, England
Ralph K. Winter Jr. (1935–2020), American judge
Steven Winter, American law professor

Religion[]

Allen Winter (1903–1997), Anglican Bishop
Bruce W. Winter (born 1939), conservative evangelical New Testament scholar
Colin Winter (1928–1981), English Anglican bishop
Cornelius Winter (1742–1808), Methodist preacher
Daniel Winter, one of the three main founders of the Orange Order
Miriam Therese Winter (born 1938), Catholic theologian
Terry Winter (1942–1998), Canadian religious leader

Sciences[]

Andreas Winter (born 1971), German mathematician and mathematical physicist
Ernst Florian Winter (1923–2014), Austrian-American historian and political scientist
Ernő Winter (1897–1971), engineer who developed barium lamps
George D. Winter (1927–1981), British medical researcher
Greg Winter (fl. 2000s), British antibodies researcher
Hannspeter Winter (1941–2006), Austrian plasma physicist
Heinrich Georg Winter (1848–1887), German mycologist

Sports[]

Adrian Winter (born 1986), Swiss professional footballer
Andy Winter (born 2002), Scottish footballer
Aron Winter (born 1967), Dutch footballer
Arthur Winter (1844–1937), English priest and cricketer
Blaise Winter (born 1962), American football coach and former player
Brian Winter (born 1968), Scottish former football referee
Cliff Winter (1884–1918), English footballer
Elaine Winter (athlete) (born 1932), South African sprinter
Elaine Winter (figure skater) (1895–?), German figure skater
Fred Winter (1926–2004), British National Hunt racing racehorse jockey and trainer
Nick Winter (1894–1955), Australian athlete
Peter Winter (athlete) (born 1971), Australian decathlete
Rudolf Winter, Czechoslovakian 1928 Olympic sailor
Stefan Winter (born 1988), German national ski mountaineering coach and alpine sports author
Tex Winter (1922–2018), American basketball coach
Trevor Winter (born 1974), American basketball player

Other[]

Christopher Winter, English pirate active in the Caribbean
David A. Winter (1930–2012), distinguished professor emeritus of the University of Waterloo
Ella Winter (1898–1980), Australian-British journalist and activist
Elly Winter (1898–1987), German communist and notable political activist
Howie Winter (1929–2020), American convicted criminal
Jay Winter (born 1945), Professor of History
Miriam Winter (1933–2014), German Nazi Holocaust survivor
Solomon Winter (1778–1859), Hungarian philanthropist
Timothy Winter (born 1960), British Islamic scholar

References[]

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