Winkler (surname)
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Winkler is a surname, and may refer to:
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- Angela WinklerAngela WinklerAngela Winkler is a German actress.- Biography :Born in Templin, Winkler trained to be a medical technologist in Stuttgart. Interested in theater, she went to Munich, where she took acting classes with Ernst Fritz Fürbringer...
, German actress - Andrew Winkler (mathematician), American mathematician and inventor
- Andrew Winkler (activist), Australian anti-Jewish activist
- Clemens WinklerClemens WinklerClemens Alexander Winkler was a German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity.- Life :...
, German chemist, discoverer of germanium - Eugen Gottlob WinklerEugen Gottlob WinklerEugen 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....
, German essayist - Frank WinklerFrank WinklerP. Frank Winkler is an astronomer and noted subject matter expert on supernova. He received his doctorate from Harvard and is currently the Gamaliel Painter Bicentennial Professor in Physics at Middlebury College located in Middlebury, Vermont.Dr...
, American astronomer - Gerhard Winkler, German composer
- Gustav WinklerGustav WinklerGustav Winkler was a German industrial. He led the Gustav Winkler Textilewerke in Lauban and produced mostly textile hanckerchives. He cooperated with the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the research for the improvement in the production of textiles...
, German industrialist - Hans WinklerHans WinklerProfessor Hans Winkler 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...
, German botanist - Hans Günter WinklerHans Günter WinklerHans Günter Winkler is a successful former German show jumping rider...
, German show jumping rider and 5 times olympic champion - Harry Winkler (handballer), American athlete
- Harry Winkler (writer)Harry Winkler (writer)Harry Winkler was an American sitcom writer who wrote for such shows as The Addams Family, The George Gobel Show, and others. He shared an Emmy award in 1955 for The George Gobel Show and was nominated the following year for the same show....
, American sitcom writer - Heinrich August WinklerHeinrich August WinklerHeinrich 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...
, German historian - Henry WinklerHenry WinklerHenry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...
, American actor - Irwin WinklerIrwin WinklerIrwin Winkler is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967's Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? , starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for nine Academy Awards...
, American film producer and director - Jim WinklerJim WinklerJames Winkler is the General Secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society. As General Secretary, he works with staff, board members, church leaders and local church members to seek the implementation of the denomination's Social Principles through education and...
, leading member of the United Methodist Church - Johannes WinklerJohannes WinklerJohannes Winkler was a German rocket pioneer who founded the first German rocket society and launched the first successful liquid-fuelled rocket in Europe....
, German rocket pioneer - Josef WinklerJosef WinklerJosef Philip Winkler is a German politician and member of the German Green Party "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen". He has been a member of the Deutscher Bundestag, the German Parliament, since 2002. He is deputy head of the Greens in the German parliament since 2009.- Family :Winkler's mother, Chinnamma,...
, German politician - Josef WinklerJosef Winkler (writer)Josef Winkler is an Austrian writer.- Biography :Winkler was born in Kamering near Paternion in Kärnten. He lived during his childhood in Kärnten, where he went to school, and then to school in Villach. His works often have a Roman Catholic setting. Homosexuality is a central topic in his books....
, Austrian writer - Markus Maria Winkler, German actor
- Mary WinklerMary WinklerMary Carol Winkler was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small town of Selmer, Tennessee...
, wife and convicted killer of Matthew Winkler - Matthew WinklerMatthew WinklerMatthew Brian Winkler 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...
, minister and victim in a high-profile murder case in 2006 - Max WinklerMax WinklerMax Winkler was Mayor of Graudenz , Reich Trustee and Reich Commissioner for German Cinema....
, German Reich Trustee and Reich Commissioner for German Cinema - Ralf WinklerRalf WinklerRalf Winkler, alias A.R. Penck is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor.He was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied together with a group of other neo-expressionist painters in Dresden. He became one of the foremost exponents of the new figuration alongside Jörg Immendorff, Georg Baselitz and...
, German painter - Scott WinklerScott WinklerScott Winkler is an American Paralympic track and field athlete who competes in men's shot put.Winkler is a United States Army veteran who was paralyzed below the chest in Tikrit, Iraq in 2003 after he fell off a truck while holding 50 pounds of ammunition....
, Norwegian ice hockey player - Tiberius Cornelis WinklerTiberius Cornelis WinklerTiberius Cornelis Winkler was a Dutch anatomist, zoologist and natural historian, and the second curator of geology, paleontology and mineralogy at Teylers Museum in Haarlem...
, Dutch anatomist and paleontologist (1822 - 1897) - Wolfgang WinklerWolfgang WinklerWolfgang Winkler is a West German former 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.-References:***...
, German luger
Winckler
Winckler is the surname of:- Alphonse WincklerPartie de cartesPartie de cartes is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring Antoine Féraud....
- Charles "Carl" Gustav Wilhelm WincklerCharles WincklerCharles "Carl" Gustav Wilhelm Winckler was a Danish athlete and tug of war competitor who participated at the 1900 Summer Olympics.He finished tenth in the shot put event and eighth in the discus throw event....
(1867–1932), a Danish athlete and tug of war competitor - Cindy WincklerCindy WincklerCindy Winckler is the Iowa State Representative from the 86th District. She has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2001. She received her MA from the University of Northern Iowa....
(born 1950), the Iowa State Representative from the 86th District - Gustav (Frands Wilzeck) WincklerGustav WincklerGustav Frands Wilzeck Winckler was a popular Danish singer, composer and music publisher. He grew up in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen and started his career as a decorator....
- Heinz WincklerHeinz WincklerHeinz Carl Heinrich Winckler was the winner of the first series of South African Idols.Born the eldest of three children in Stellenbosch, South Africa, he went on to study law at Stellenbosch University...
- Hugo WincklerHugo WincklerHugo Winckler was a German archaeologist and historian who uncovered the capital of the Hittite Empire at Boğazkale, Turkey....
- Martin WincklerMartin WincklerMartin Winckler is a French M.D. and a short story, novel and essay writer. His main subjects are the French medical system, the healing relationship and contraception; he also wrote critical papers and books about TV serials .-Biography:His family returned to...
, born: Marc Zaffran (born 1955, Alger), a French M.D. and a short story-, novel- and essay writer - Stefano Winckler
also:
- The Winckler-Caetani theoryWinckler-Caetani theoryThe Winckler-Caetani theory , named after its two most distinguished proponents, Hugo Winckler and Leone Caetani, which claims that Arabia was originally a land of great fertility and the first home of the semitic peoples...
, named after Hugo Winckler and Leone CaetaniLeone CaetaniLeone Caetani , Duke of Sermoneta , was an Italian scholar, politician and historian of the Middle-East.... - The Goetsch-Winckler HouseGoetsch-Winckler HouseThe Goetsch-Winckler House, , was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built in 1940, and is located at 2410 Hulett Rd, Okemos, Michigan...
(also known as Goetsch-Winkler House), named after Kathrine Winckler and Alma Goetsch
See also
Related surnames and toponyms:- WinkelWinkelWinkel may refer to:*Winkel, Haut-Rhin, a place in the Haut-Rhin department, France*Winkel , a town in the Netherlands*Winkel , a village in the Netherlands*Winkel , a village in the Netherlands...
, Winkl, Winckel; Winkeln - Winkels
- WinkelmannWinkelmannWinkelmann is the surname of:* Christian Herman Winkelmann, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita * Colin Winkelmann , professional freestyle BMX rider* Eduard Winkelmann , German historian...
(Winkelman), Winckelmann (Winckelman)
- Wankel
- Vaňhal
Similar forms:
- Wienke (Wiencke), Wienecke/Wieneke, Winke (Wincke), WinkWink (disambiguation)A wink is a facial expression in which one eye is briefly closed. Wink may also mean:-People:* Wink Davenport, American volleyball player* Wink Martindale, US game show host* Josh Wink, DJ and electronic musician who also performed as Wink and Winx...
(Winck) (cog. Wienert, Wienand)