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Winston Churchill (novelist)

Winston Churchill (1871-1947) was the American novelist of Richard Carvel and The Crisis, once more famous than the British statesman, who agreed to add 'Spencer' to his name; a Cornish Art Colony member and New Hampshire legislator.

Winston Duke

Winston Duke (born 1986, Argyle, Tobago) is a Trinidadian-American actor, Yale MFA 2013, known as M'Baku in Black Panther and the MCU films, and for Us, Nine Days, Spenser Confidential, and The Fall Guy.

Winston Graham

Winston Mawdsley Graham, English novelist (born Manchester, 1908 or 1910; died 2003), creator of the twelve Poldark novels of Cornwall (1945–2002) and author of Marnie, filmed by Hitchcock.

Winston Groom

Winston Groom (Winston Francis Groom Jr., 1943-2020), American novelist and historian, author of Forrest Gump (1986), basis of the 1994 six-Oscar film; also wrote Vietnam novels and military history including Shrouds of Glory.

Winston Marshall

Winston Marshall, British musician, former banjoist and lead guitarist and co-founder (2007) of Mumford & Sons; left the band in June 2021 after praising Andy Ngo's book Unmasked; later a Spectator podcaster and founder of Hong Kong Link Up.

Winston Ntshona

Winston Zola Ntshona (1941–2018), South African actor and playwright of the Serpent Players, co-devised Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island with Athol Fugard and John Kani, shared the 1975 Tony Award for Best Actor, was detained under apartheid, and received the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver.

Winston Surfshirt

Winston Surfshirt is an Australian funk, hip-hop, and R&B collective from Sydney, fronted by the singer and rapper Winston, whose debut album Sponge Cake reached number 24 on the ARIA chart.

Winston Zeddemore

Winston Zeddemore, the everyman fourth Ghostbuster of the Ghostbusters franchise, played by Ernie Hudson and voiced by Arsenio Hall; hired via a help-wanted ad in the 1984 film, later Dr. Winston Zeddemore, entrepreneur and research-facility builder in Frozen Empire.

Winter – Fifth Avenue

Winter – Fifth Avenue is an 1893 black-and-white photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, showing a horse-drawn carriage moving down a snow-filled Fifth Avenue during a New York blizzard.

Winter (2026 TV series)

Winter (2026) is a six-part ITV1 crime drama starring Richard Armitage as Bristol forensic pathologist Dr Ethan Winter and Annabel Scholey as DI Lauren Bell, adapted from the French series Balthazar, premiering 30 September 2026.

Winter (김민정) (singer)

Winter (윈터), born Kim Min-jeong in 2001, is the main vocalist and lead dancer of K-pop girl group aespa, which debuted under SM Entertainment in November 2020 with 'Black Mamba'; she also appears with GOT the beat and co-wrote the solo song 'Spark'.

Winter Ahead

"Winter Ahead (with PARK HYO SHIN)" is a jazz-pop duet single by BTS's V and Park Hyo Shin (박효신), released November 29, 2024 by BIGHIT MUSIC; it debuted at No. 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped Digital Song Sales.

Winter Ave Zoli

Winter Ave Zoli, also credited Winter Uhlarik, is an American actress born 1980 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, raised in Prague, best known as Lyla Winston on Sons of Anarchy (2009–2014) and for Hellboy, The Pagan Queen, Bosch, and Father Stu.

Winter Begonia (鬓边不是海棠红)

Winter Begonia (鬓边不是海棠红) is a 2020 iQiyi Chinese drama adapted from Shui Ru Tian Er's novel, starring Huang Xiaoming, Yin Zheng, and Charmaine Sheh as a businessman and Peking opera master in 1930s Beiping.

Winter Egg

The Winter Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg made in 1913, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II as an Easter gift for his mother, Maria Feodorovna.

Winter Fire

"Winter Fire" is the eighth episode and season 1 finale of It: Welcome to Derry, aired December 14, 2025 on HBO; written by Jason Fuchs, titled after Ben Hanscom's poem to Beverly in IT, ending with Pennywise's escape stopped.

Winter Garden Theatre

Winter Garden Theatre: Shubert-owned Broadway house at 1634 Broadway, New York, opened 1911 in a converted American Horse Exchange; home of Cats, West Side Story, Mamma Mia!; distinct from the 295-seat Garden Theatre on Plant in Winter Garden, Florida.

Winter in the Blood

Winter in the Blood is a 1974 novel by James Welch about an alienated Blackfeet man on a Montana reservation, a key work of the Native American Renaissance.

Winter Is Coming

Winter Is Coming: first episode of HBO's Game of Thrones (April 17, 2011), written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Tim Van Patten; adapts the prologue and opening of Martin's A Game of Thrones; 2.2 million initial viewers, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Winter Light

Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna, 1963) is Ingmar Bergman's black-and-white Swedish drama, middle film of the faith trilogy with Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence, starring Gunnar Björnstrand as a doubting pastor, shot by Sven Nykvist in natural winter light.

Winter Morning

Winter Morning (Зимнее утро) is a lyric poem by Alexander Pushkin, begun 3 November 1829, in which the speaker wakes his beloved to admire a sunlit winter landscape after a blizzard.

Winter Sleep (film)

Winter Sleep (Kış Uykusu) is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 196-minute 2014 Turkish drama, adapted from Chekhov stories, about hotelier Aydın in Cappadocia; it won the 2014 Cannes Palme d'Or, the second Turkish film to do so after Yol.

Winter Sonata (겨울연가)

Winter Sonata (겨울연가) is a 2002 KBS 2TV Korean drama, 20 episodes, directed by Yoon Seok-ho, starring Bae Yong-jun and Choi Ji-woo. The second of the Endless Love seasonal quartet, it is credited with launching the Korean Wave in Japan and the Yon-sama craze.

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland: 1934 American popular song, music by Felix Bernard, lyrics by Richard B. Smith (Dick Smith), first recorded by Richard Himber; a Christmas-season standard whose lyrics never mention Christmas.

Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone is a 2010 Debra Granik film adapted from Daniel Woodrell's 2006 Ozarks novel, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly, who searches for her missing father to save the family home; it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and earned two Oscar nominations.

Winter's Tale (film)

Winter's Tale (2014) is Akiva Goldsman's directorial debut, a fantasy romance adapted from Mark Helprin's 1983 novel, starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, and Will Smith as Lucifer; it grossed $30.8 million worldwide and holds 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Wintering Out

Wintering Out is a 1972 poetry collection by the Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney, known for the place-name poems 'Anahorish' and 'Broagh' and for 'The Tollund Man'.

Winterland Ballroom

Winterland Ballroom was a 5,400-seat San Francisco rock venue at Post and Steiner Streets, a 1928 ice rink run by Bill Graham from 1966 to 1978, site of The Last Waltz, the Sex Pistols' final US show, and 59 Grateful Dead concerts; demolished 1985.

Winternag

Winternag ("Winter's night") is a poem by the South African writer Eugène N. Marais, first published in 1905 and widely treated as the first fully achieved literary poem in Afrikaans.

Winterreise

Winterreise (Winter Journey), D 911, Op. 89: Franz Schubert's 1827 cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano setting Wilhelm Müller's poems, following a rejected wanderer through a winter landscape; among the most performed and recorded of all song cycles.