Winchester (disambiguation)

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Winchester is a historic city in southern England.

Winchester may also refer to:

In Winchester, England

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
  • 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

Elsewhere

  • 747 Winchester, an asteroid
  • Winchester, Ontario, Canada
  • Winchester, New Zealand

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, a U.S. fantasy television series, spin-off of the WB/CW show Supernatural
  • Winchester '73, an American Western movie released in 1950 starring James Stewart, remade as a made-for-TV movie in 1967
  • Winchester (movie), a 2018 American horror movie

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