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 the national average (1:974) in the following states: Lower Austria (1:671) Salzburg (1:798) Vienna (1:802) Styria (1:848)
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:992) in the following states: Bremen (1:674) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:695) Hesse (1:719) Saxony-Anhalt (1:737) Saarland (1:831) Saxony (1:839) Bavaria (1:887) Brandenburg (1:895) Thuringia (1:910) Lower Saxony (1:977)
In England, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:2,952) in the following counties:Winter surname distribution East Sussex (1:1,284) County Durham (1:1,291) Isle of Wight (1:1,470) Cumbria (1:1,521) Northumberland (1:1,597) East Riding of Yorkshire (1:1,637) Tyne and Wear (1:1,638) Somerset (1:1,698) Bristol (1:1,766) Lincolnshire (1:1,864) Hampshire (1:2,018) Dorset (1:2,102) Norfolk (1:2,143) Surrey (1:2,150) Rutland (1:2,232) Kent (1:2,259) Hertfordshire (1:2,270) Gloucestershire (1:2,288) Cambridgeshire (1:2,464) Bedfordshire (1:2,476) Wiltshire (1:2,581) Buckinghamshire (1:2,592) Berkshire (1:2,593) Devon (1:2,596) South Yorkshire (1:2,780) West Sussex (1:2,835) North Yorkshire (1:2,910) 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 Cameron Winter (born 2002), American singer and songwriter 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 Faye Winter (born 1995), English television personality 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 Winter (1914–2001), German-Austrian singer, musician, and band director Harry A. Winter (1889–1969), lawyer, journalist, judge, and political figure
Johnny Winter (1944–2014), American singer, songwriter, musician Judy Winter (born 1944), German actress 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 Pedro Winter (born 1975), French record producer, DJ, and record label owner 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 Sarah Winter (born 1993), British film and television actress 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 Lee Winter, Australian 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 Ormonde Winter (1875–1962), British general and intelligence officer
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 Manpower Inc. Ernst Florian Winter (1923–2014), American historian and political scientist Ernst Karl Winter (1895–1959), Austrian sociologist Faith Winter (1980–2025), U.S. legislator Frank Winter (1906–1976), South Island Māori leader Gonzalo Winter, Chilean lawyer and politician, congressman representing the 10th district of Santiago Gordon Arnaud Winter (1912–2003), Canadian politician from Newfoundland Harrison Lee Winter (1921–1990), United States federal judge Harry A. Winter (1889–1969), Newfoundland judge and politician James A. Winter (1886–1971), Newfoundland lawyer and politician James Spearman Winter (1845–1911), premier of Newfoundland 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 (legal scholar), American law professor Ty Winter, American politician from Colorado
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 (televangelist) (1942–1998), Canadian religious leader
Sciences Andreas Winter (born 1971), German mathematician and mathematical physicist Ernő Winter (1897–1971), engineer who developed barium lamps Ernst Florian Winter (1923–2014), Austrian-American historian and political scientist George D. Winter (1927–1981), British medical researcher Sir Gregory Winter (born 1951), British antibodies researcher Hannspeter Winter (1941–2006), Austrian plasma physicist Heinrich Georg Winter (1848–1887), German mycologist Jean-Pierre Winter (1951–2025), French psychoanalyst and writer
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 Cecil Winter (1879–1964), English cricketer, teacher and RAF officer 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 Margie Winter (born 2002), Micronesian swimmer Nick Winter (1894–1955), Australian athlete Peter Winter (athlete) (born 1971), Australian decathlete Stefan Winter (ski mountaineer) (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 (pirate), 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
See also Winters (name) Winterson De Winter (surname) Wynter (disambiguation), includes list of people with the name Wynter
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