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Winnie Yip
Winnie Yip, also known as Winnie Chi-Man Yip (葉志敏), is a health economist and professor of global health policy and economics at Harvard, formerly at Oxford.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also spelled Winnie the Pooh, is A.A. Milne's 1926 children's book illustrated by E.H. Shepard about a honey-loving bear in the Hundred Acre Wood; it entered US public domain in 2022 while Disney retains its cartoon versions.
Winnie-the-Pooh (book)
Winnie-the-Pooh, the 1926 A. A. Milne short-story collection illustrated by E. H. Shepard, first published by Methuen on 14 October 1926, sold 35,000 first-edition copies and entered US public domain in 2022.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British slasher horror film directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield. It features Pooh and Piglet's murderous rampage in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024) is a British slasher horror sequel directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, made for $1 million by Jagged Edge Productions, adding Tigger after his January 2024 public domain entry, and launching the Twisted Childhood Universe.
Winning Post (ウイニングポスト)
Winning Post (ウイニングポスト, WiPo) is Koei Tecmo's horse-raising simulation series, first released 1993; Guinness record for longest-running horse racing game series, 4 million+ units sold, Japan-only except Winning Post EX (1995).
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is an HBO sports comedy-drama (2022–2023) by Max Borenstein, Jim Hecht, and Adam McKay, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime, dramatizing the 1980s Showtime Lakers; canceled after two seasons amid accuracy disputes.
Winnipeg
Winnipeg, capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, at the Forks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers; incorporated 1873, 749,607 residents in 2021, estimated 850,260 in 2026, largest Indigenous population in Canada.
Winnipeg (bear)
Winnipeg, known as Winnie, was a female black bear who served as a Canadian regimental mascot in the First World War and inspired A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers, CFL team founded 1930, community-owned, 12 Grey Cups in 26 appearances. Princess Auto Stadium home; 2019 title ended 28-29-year drought; 72-32 since 2019, best CFL record.
Winnipeg Jets
Winnipeg Jets: NHL team in the Central Division, playing at Canada Life Centre since 2011 after relocating from Atlanta; in 2026 the NHL merged the original Jets (1979-96), Thrashers, and current Jets into one franchise history.
Winnipeg Stadium
Winnipeg Stadium, later Canad Inns Stadium, was the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' home at Polo Park from 1953 to 2012; capacity peaked at 33,675, record crowd 51,985 (1991 Grey Cup), replaced by Investors Group Field in 2013.
Winnipegosis
Lake Winnipegosis ("Little Muddy Water") is a large glacial lake in Manitoba, about 200 km long and 5,370 km², draining to Lake Manitoba; fished commercially since the 1890s, with walleye collapse in the 1960s and zebra mussels detected in 2026.
Winnowing
Winnowing: separating grain from chaff using wind or forced air after threshing. Also called air separation; traditional tossing on threshing floors and modern fan-and-sieve winnowers in combines; measured airspeeds 800–1300 ft/min for paddy.
Wino (particle)
In particle physics, the wino is the hypothetical supersymmetric partner of the weak-force W bosons, whose charged and neutral states form a benchmark WIMP dark matter candidate.
Winogrande
WinoGrande is a large-scale benchmark of 44,000 fill-in-a-blank problems testing commonsense reasoning through pronoun resolution, introduced in 2019 as a harder successor to the Winograd Schema Challenge.
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke, born 1959, is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) activist, economist, and author on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, known for tribal land recovery and pipeline opposition.
Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz, born 1971) is an American actress of Beetlejuice, Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Girl, Interrupted, and Stranger Things, with Oscar nominations for The Age of Innocence and Little Women, a 2001 shoplifting conviction, and a comeback via Black Swan.
Winona, Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota: 'The Island City,' a Mississippi River city of about 26,500 in southeastern Minnesota, founded 1851 from the Dakota site Wapasha's Prairie, once a lumber and flour-milling boomtown.
WinRAR
WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows developed by RARLAB and first released in 1995; it creates RAR and ZIP archives and extracts many other formats.
Winrich Freiwald
Winrich A. Freiwald is a German-born systems neuroscientist at Rockefeller University in New York, known for discovering the face patches, a fixed network of face-selective brain regions.
WinSCP
WinSCP (Windows Secure CoPy) is a free, open-source SFTP, FTP, SCP, WebDAV, and S3 client and file manager for Microsoft Windows, started by Martin Prikryl in 2000 in Prague.
Winship Herr
Winship Herr is an American molecular biologist known for his work on HCF-1 in herpesvirus gene expression, with a career at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University of Lausanne.
Winsley Boteli
Winsley Boteli (Winsley Boteli Mokango), Swiss forward born 2006 in Geneva; ex-Borussia Mönchengladbach youth, FC Sion striker from 2025, contract to 2030, Swiss international.
Winslow Growth Capital
Winslow Growth Capital is the private growth-capital fund platform of Winslow Capital Management, a Minneapolis growth-equity adviser founded in 1992, affiliated with Nuveen, whose funds target growth companies positioned for shifts like the analog-to-digital transition.
Winslow Hall
Winslow William Hall (1912–1995), American rower and Olympic champion in the men's eights at the 1932 Los Angeles Games; bow oar of the California Golden Bears crew, later a navy lieutenant commander.
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), American painter and illustrator, Harper's Weekly Civil War correspondent, Cullercoats and Prouts Neck marine painter, famed for watercolors and The Gulf Stream.
Winslow R. Briggs
Winslow R. Briggs (1928–2019) was an American plant biologist at Stanford and the Carnegie Institution who showed how auxin transport bends seedlings toward light and identified the phototropin receptors.
Winslow, Arizona
Winslow, Arizona: small railroad-founded city in Navajo County on I-40 and Route 66, named for Edward Winslow, known for La Posada Hotel and the Eagles' "Take It Easy" corner.
Winsome Cripps
Winsome Cripps (later Dennis), Australian sprinter born 1931, fourth in the 1952 Olympic 100 m and 200 m, world record holder at 100 m and in relays, 1954 Empire Games gold and two silvers.