work in the field of children's theatre Winifred Mary Ward (1884–1975), one of the founders of modern speech therapy Winifred "Winnie" Mandela (born 1936), former wife of South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela Places Winifred, Montana, a town in the United States Winifred Beach, a beach in Jamaica Fictional characters Dora-Winifred "D.W." Read, a character from the animated series Arthur Winifred Banks (Mrs. Banks), a character from Mary Poppins who appears as a suffragette in the 1964 Disney film and as a fashionable housewife in the Broadway musical Winifred Burkle, known as "Fred", a main character in the 1999 television series Angel Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson, the main antagonist in the 1993 film Hocus Pocus Winifred "Winnie" Foster, a main character from the American book and movie Tuck Everlasting Winifred "Wendy" Torrance, a main character from the American book and movie The Shining Winifred Brooks, a character in the TV series “A Different World” Winifred "Fred" Grant-Gomez a character voiced by Joey King in the Disney Channel animated series "Hamster and Gretel" Ships , a Uganda Railway Lake Victoria ferry scuttled in 1936 , a United States Navy tanker and cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919 See also Winifreda Winnifred English feminine given names