Winter (surname)
family name
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:
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
Jens Winter (born 1965), German film and theatre actor of British descent
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
Christian Winter (born 1987), German politician
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.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1485942. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014, 1956, 1965 and 1802.
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