Thomas Gustav Winner (3 May 1917, Prague – 20 April 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American slavist and semiotician. At Brown University, he established the first American semiotics center. He was a well-known Chekhov specialist, and a proponent of Tartu-Moscow semiotics school. Notes 1917 births 2004 deaths American semioticians Slavists Writers from Prague Brown University faculty Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States Presidents of the Semiotic Society of America