Winchester (disambiguation)

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Winchester is a historic city in southern England.

Winchester may also refer to:

In Winchester, England

• Winchester (UK Parliament constituency)
• Winchester Cathedral
• Diocese of Winchester
• Bishop of Winchester
• Winchester College
• City of Winchester, the local government district containing Winchester
• University of Winchester

Places

Historical documents

• The Book of Winchester (also known as the Domesday Book), the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086 for William I

Persons

• Henry of Winchester (1207–1271), who would become King Henry III of England
• Henry of Winchester (1101–1171), also known as Henry of Blois, the Bishop of Winchester
• Benjamin Winchester (1817–1901), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Boyd Winchester (1836–1923), United States Representative from Kentucky
• Brad Winchester (born 1981) American professional ice hockey player
• Caleb Thomas Winchester (1847–1920), professor for English literature at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
• Colin Winchester (1933–1989), highest-ranking officer to be murdered in Australian policing history
• Elhanan Winchester (1751-1797), preacher
• Ernie Winchester (1944-2013), Scottish footballer
• Ian Winchester (born 1973), discus thrower from New Zealand
• Jack Winchester (born 1882), Canadian professional ice hockey
• Jesse Winchester (1944-2014), stage name of musician James Ridout Winchester
• Jesse Winchester (ice hockey) (born 1983), Canadian professional ice hockey player
• John de Winchester (d. 1460), bishop of Moray
• Jude Winchester, Northern Irish footballer
• Mary Winchester (Zoluti) (1865-1955), English girl kidnapped by Mizos
• Olive Winchester (1879–1947), pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene
• Oliver Winchester (1810–1880), largest stockholder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
• Sarah Winchester (1837–1922), wife of William Winchester and builder of the Winchester Mystery House
• Scott Winchester (born 1973), American former Major League Baseball player
• Shurwayne Winchester (born 1974), soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago
• Simon Winchester (born 1944), author and journalist
• William Wirt Winchester (1838–1881), son of Oliver Winchester

Chemistry

• Winchester (bottle), used in laboratories for the storage of corrosive chemicals

Computers and software

• Winchester, code name for an Athlon 64 processor model
• Winchester disk, a once-common generic name for hard disks, from the code name for the early IBM 3340 storage system
• V.35 (recommendation) or Winchester connector, an ITU-T standard for wideband modems located on layer 1 on the OSI model

Film

• The Winchester, a fictional English pub in the movie Shaun of The Dead
• Winchester '73, an American Western movie released in 1950 starring James Stewart, remade as a made-for-TV film in 1967
• Winchester (film), a 2018 American horror film

Firearms

• Winchester rifle, a lever-action rifle popular in the US since the mid 19th century
• Winchester Repeating Arms Company, manufacturer of Winchester firearms

Vessels

Weights and measures

• Winchester measure, an archaic set of weights and measures
• Winchester quart, an archaic measure of volume

Other uses

• 747 Winchester, an asteroid
• The Winchester, Highgate, a London pub
• Winchester, the IBM code name for the product that became the IBM 3340