- Valentine Winkler
Valentine Winkler (March 18, 1864 - June 7, 1920) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal from 1892 to 1900, and again from 1900 to 1920. Winkler was a cabinet minister in the government of Tobias C. Norris. His brother, Enoch Winkler, was also a member of the provincial legislature from 1888 to 1899. Winkler was born in Neustadt, Grey Count, Canada West (now Ontario), and educated at public schools in the area.
- Jim Winkler
James Winkler (born July 21, 1927 in Moody, Texas) was a defensive lineman who played three seasons in the NFL.
- Henry Winkler
Henry Franklin Winkler is a Golden Globe Award-winning actor, director, producer and author who is most famous for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom "Happy Days" (1974–1984). Winkler gained national fame for his auto mechanic-greaser role as "The Fonz", starting out as a minor character at the show's beginning but having top billing by the time the show ended.
- Marv Winkler
Marvin Winkler (born February 18, 1948) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'1" guard from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Winkler played one season (1970-71) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks. He averaged 2.7 points per game and won a league championship when Milwaukee defeated the Baltimore Bullets in the 1971 NBA Finals.
- Mary Winkler
Mary Carol Winkler, (born December 10,1973) was charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small town of Selmer, Tennessee. On April 19th 2007, she was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter .She was arrested and remanded on March 23, 2006. On August 15, 2006 she was released on bond. Mary graduated in 1992 from South-Doyle High School, …
- Clemens Winkler
Clemens Alexander Winkler (December 26, 1838 - October 8, 1904), a German chemist, discovered the element Germanium in 1886. This discovery solidified Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity. Mendeleev's thoughts on the element came really close to what the actual element was like. Winkler was born in 1838 in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. His father was a chemist too. When he entered the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology at age 19, …
- Gus Winkler
Gus Winkler (March 28, 1900-October 9, 1933) was a St. Louis mobster who, with Fred Burke, was head of a criminal gang specializing in armed robbery and murder for hire. Born "August Henry Winkeler" in St. Louis, Missouri, Winkler was a member of Cuckoo Gang during his teenage years. After a stint as an Army ambulance driver in World War I, Winkler joined up with the Egan's Rats gang before moving to Detroit in the mid-1920's.
- Matthew Winkler
Matthew Brian Winkler (November 21, 1974 - March 22, 2006) was the victim in a high-profile murder case in 2006. In the 1990s, Winkler attended college at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee. Winkler was the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer, Tennessee, at the time of his death.
- Warren Winkler
Warren Keith Winkler (born 1938) is a Canadian jurist and the current Chief Justice of Ontario. Appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on June 1, 2007, Winkler was previously Regional Senior Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for the Toronto Region.
- Hal Winkler
Harold "Hal" Winkler (born March 20, 1892 in Gretna, Manitoba, Canada) was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. Winkler started his professional hockey career with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League in 1922. He would also play with the Calgary Tigers. In 1926, he moved to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. He would also play with the Boston Bruins. His name appears on the Stanley Cup as a member of the 1929 Boston Bruins.
- Margaret J. Winkler
Margaret J. Winkler (or M. J. Winkler) was one of the key figures in silent animation history, having a crucial role to play in the histories of Max and Dave Fleischer, Pat Sullivan, Otto Messmer and Walt Disney. She was also the first woman to produce and distribute animated films. Winkler began her career as personal secretary of Harry Warner, one of the founders of Warner Brothers.
- Jim Winkler
James (Jim) Winkler, is the general secretary (a top executive) of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society. He was among those arrested in front of the White House for Protesting the war in Iraq. He also makes an apearence in the documentary film Renewal Or Ruin. He has advocated for positions regarding homosexuality that are at odds with decisions made by the Church Judicial Council and what is written in the Discipline (the Church governing document).
- Heinz Winkler
Heinz Winkler (born 1949) is a European chef. In 2001, he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz of Germany, a decoration from the President of Germany.
- Wolfgang Winkler
Wolfgang Winkler (born October 21, 1940) was a West German luger who competed in the late 1960s. He won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.
- Geri Winkler
Geri Winkler (born 13 April 1956 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian mountaineer, who was the first insulin-dependent diabetic to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Since 1984, Winkler has taught mathematics, French, and German language in Vienna. In September 1984, he was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1. In April 1987, he ran the Vienna marathon, marking the first time a diabetic patient had finished a marathon.
- Eric Alfred Winkler
Eric Alfred Winkler was a Canadian politician. Born in Hanover, Ontario, he was a prisoner of war for three years after being shot down in 1942 during World War II. In 1946, he was elected as a councilor for the city of Hanover and was elected mayor in 1948. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Grey—Bruce in the 1957 federal election. A Progressive Conservative, he was re-elected in 1958, 1962, 1963, and 1965.
- Hans Winkler
Professor Hans Winkler (23 April 1877 - 22 November 1945) was a German botanist. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg, and a director of that university's Institute of Botany. He is remembered for coining the term 'genome' in 1920, by making a portmanteau of the words gene and chromosome. On page 165, he wrote (in rough translation): <blockquote>I propose the expression Genom for the haploid chromosome set, which, …
- Anton Winkler
Anton Winkler (born February 23, 1954) was a West German luger who competed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won the bronze medal in the men's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Winkler also won three medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with a silver (singles: 1978) and two bronzes (singles: 1977, doubles: 1979).
- Ulrich Winkler
Ulrich Winkler is an American football defensive end who currently plays for the Tennessee Titans. He will be on their Practice Squad as a member of the International Practice Squad 2007.
- Johannes Winkler
Johannes Winkler (May 29 1897 - December 27 1947) was a German rocket pioneer who launched the first liquid-fuelled rocket in Europe, the HW-I on March 14, 1931. Winkler was born in Karlsruhe. In 1915 he joined the German army and was wounded in action the following year, leading to a lengthy hospitalisation. After his recovery, he studied as a machinist at the Danzig technical college and found a job at Junkers. With a growing fascination for aerospace, on July 5 1927, …
- Kati Winkler
Kati Winkler (born January 16 1974 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz)) is a German figure skater and specialized in ice dancing. Kati Winkler was a team in ice dancing with René Lohse. They won the bronze medla at the World championships in ice dancing in 2004. This was the greatest success for the German icedancers since 1973, the time of Angelika Buck/Erich Buck. They were also the first German icedance pairs which qualified for the Grand Prix final.
- Harald Winkler
Harald Winkler (born 17 December 1962) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed in the bobsleigh events at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Winkler won a gold medal in the four-person bobsleigh event with teammates Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Haidacher and Thomas Schroll.
- Heinz Winkler
Heinz Winkler (7 July 1910 - 25 June 1958) was an East German Christian Democratic politician. Winkler was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He was trained as an architect. In 1938 he joined the Nazi Party. From 1941 to 1945 he was a Wehrmacht soldier. After the war he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Soviet Occupation Zone in 1945. Until 1953 Winkler was the leader of a reconstruction bureau, responsible for the reconstruction of the city of Chemnitz.
- Max Winkler
Max Winkler was Mayor of Graudenz (now Grudziądz, Poland), Reich Trustee and Reich Commissioner for German Cinema. Born 7 September 1875 in Karresch (West Prussia, now Poland), Winkler, who came from a family of teachers, was working for the postal service by 1891, and as of 1914, he was a city councillor in Graudenz, and by November 1918, the mayor. From 1919 he was a member of the "Landtag" in Prussia for the German Democratic Party, …
- Henriette Winkler
Henriette Winkler (1931-2002) was, for nearly fifty years, Tahiti's best-known female singer.
- Konrad Winkler
Konrad Winkler (born February 17 1955) is a former East German Nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1970's and early 1980's. He won a gold medal in the Nordic combined Individual event at the 1978 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, then finished second behind Tom Sandberg in the same event in 1982. Winkler also earned bronzes in the Individual Nordic combined events at the 1976 Winter Olympics and at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
- Hans-Heinrich Winkler
Hans-Heinrich Winkler (sometimes listed as Hans-Heinrich Wickler) was an East German luger who competed in the mid 1970s. He won the bronze medal in the men's singles event at the 1976 FIL European Luge Championships in Hammarstrand, Sweden. Winkler also finished fourth in the men's singles event at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck though his surname was misspelled as Wickler.
- Austin Winkler
Austin Winkler (born on the 25th of October, 1981) is the lead vocalist for the Oklahoma City-based rock band Hinder. He wrote the band's breakout hit "Lips of an Angel", which in 2006 peaked at #3 on Billboard Hot 100.
- Dawn Winkler
Dawn Winkler is the co-founder and executive director of the non-profit group Health Advocacy in the Public Interest and was a Libertarian candidate for Governor of Colorado in the 2006 statewide elections.
- Marianne Winkler
Marianne Winkler was a West German luger who competed in the early 1960s. She won the silver medal in the women's singles at the 1961 FIL World Luge Championships in Girenbad, Switzerland.
- Eugen Gottlob Winkler
Eugen Gottlob Winkler was a German writer and essayist. He grew up in Stuttgart and studied Germanistics, Romantic philology and art history at Munich, Paris, Tübingen and Cologne. He wrote criticism and essays in order to earn a basic livelihood and devote himself to literary pursuits without a conventional job. Although he was jail for several days in 1933, being accused of damaging a Nazi Party placard, …
- Heinrich August Winkler
Heinrich August Winkler is a German historian. After attending a Gymnasium in Ulm, he studied history, political science, philosophy and public law at Münster, Heidelberg and Tübingen. In 1970 he became professor at the Free University of Berlin. From 1972 to 1991 he was professor at the University of Freiburg. Since 1991 he has held a chair of modern history at the Humboldt University Berlin.
- Mel Winkler
Mel Winkler is a film and TV actor. Though he mostly takes on minor live-action roles, he is probably best known as the voice of the guardian mask Aku Aku in the "Crash Bandicoot series".
- Dustin Penner
Dustin Penner (born September 28, 1982 in Winkler, Manitoba) is a professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League. Penner was never drafted, instead he was discovered and signed as a free agent by the then Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, after he played for the University of Maine in the NCAA.
- Eric Fehr
Eric Fehr (born September 7, 1985 in Winkler, Manitoba) is a Canadian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. Fehr was a first-round draft pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Washington Capitals. He was chosen 18th overall. He occupies the right right wing position and shows tremendous offensive instincts. Fehr played 11 games with the Capitals in the 2005-06 NHL season; he went scoreless, with 2 penalty minutes and an even plus/minus rating.
- Ed Belfour
Edward John "The Eagle" Belfour (born April 21, 1965 in Carman, Manitoba, Canada) is an NHL goaltender who, as of July 1st, is a free agent. Belfour was born in Carman, Manitoba and grew up playing hockey. He played junior hockey for the Winkler Flyers before going to the University of North Dakota where he helped the school win the NCAA championship in the 1986-87 season.
- Arnold Brown
Peter Arnold Brown (born April 27, 1927 in Winkler, Manitoba, died March 5, 1994) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1973 to 1988, representing the riding of Rhineland for the Progressive Conservative Party. Brown worked as a businessman and a farmer before entering political life. He served as a Councillor in the town of Winkler from 1967 to 1974, …
- Gabriella Winkler
- Jenö Winkler
- Namullim
Namullim is a Canadian singer. Born in Winkler, Manitoba (Canada) and raised in both Iqaluit, Nunavut and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Namullim's music has been described as a cross between Depeche Mode, Beck, Dangerous Muse and Har Mar Superstar. Over the past few years, Namullim has been carefully crafting his sound and is currently preparing to enter the studio to record his forthcoming EP, "The Summer Song", …