Winkler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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* Albert J. Winkler (1894–1989), American professor of viticulture *

Alberto Winkler Alberto Winkler (13 February 1932 – 14 June 1981) was an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in the coxed four event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Romano Sgheiz, Angelo Vanzi ...

(1932–1981) Italian rower and Olympian * Alexander Winkler (disambiguation), multiple people *

Angela Winkler Angela Winkler (born 22 January 1944) is a German actress. Life and career 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 F ...

(born 1944), German actress *

Angelina Virginia Winkler Angelina Virginia Winkler (June 2, 1842 – May 4, 1911) was an American journalist, editor, magazine publisher. She specialized in literary criticism of Southern literature. Early life and education Angelina Virginia Smith was born in Richmond, ...

(1842–1911), American journalist, editor, magazine publisher *

Anthony Winkler Prins Anthony Winkler Prins (30 or 31 January 1817 in Voorst – 4 January 1908 in Voorburg) was a Dutch writer. He is remembered mostly for being chief editor of the ''Winkler Prins'' encyclopedia. Besides being an encyclopedist, Winkler Prins (a ...

(1817-1908), Dutch writer and encyclopedist *

Austin John Winkler Austin John Winkler (born October 25, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known for being the former lead singer of the American rock band Hinder. Since his departure from Hinder, Winkler has continued his career, but as a s ...

(born 1981), American singer-songwriter, former lead singer for

Hinder Hinder is an American rock band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, formed in 2001 by lead singer Austin John Winkler, guitarist Joe "Blower" Garvey, and drummer Cody Hanson with bassist Mike Roden and guitarist Mark King joining in 2003, solidifying ...

Ben Winkler Benjamin Winkler (May 25, 1902 – February 22, 1979) was an American sound engineer and recordist in the U.S. film industry having some 135 credits to his name. Born in The Bronx, New York. His film credits included '' Money Madness'', ''D.O.A ...

(1902–1979), American sound engineer * Bernhard Winkler (born 1966), German footballer *

Charles Winkler Charles Winkler is an American television and film director and producer. He is the son of Academy Award-winning producer and director Irwin Winkler and actress Margo Winkler. He was married to actress Sandra Nelson from 1998 until their divorc ...

, American film director *

Clemens Winkler Clemens Alexander Winkler (December 26, 1838 – October 8, 1904) was a German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity. Life Winkler was born in 1838 in Freiberg, Kingdom ...

(1838–1904), German chemist, discoverer of germanium *

Clinton McKamy Winkler Clinton McKamy Winkler (October 19, 1821 – May 13, 1882) was an American soldier, judge and legislator. Winkler was elected to the Texas Legislature in 1847 and 1873. He practiced law in Corsicana, Texas through the 1850s. Winkler served in the ...

(1821–1882), American politician and Confederate soldier, namesake of Winkler County, Texas *

Dan Winkler Daniel Allen Winkler (born February 2, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs. Career Winkler attended St. Anthony High ...

(born 1990), American baseball player *

Emil Winkler Emil Winkler (18 April 1835, Falkenberg bei Torgau – 27 August 1888, Berlin) was a German civil engineer, professor with broad academic interest including engineering mechanics, railway engineering, bridge engineering. Emil Winkler was first to ...

(1835–1888), German engineer *

Eric Winkler Eric Alfred Winkler (February 13, 1920 – March 18, 1995) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1957 to 1967 who represented the riding of Grey—Bruce. He was ...

(1920–1995), Canadian politician *

Eugen Gottlob Winkler Eugen Gottlob Winkler (1912, in Zürich – 1936, in Munich) 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. Eugen Gottlob Winkler wrote ...

(1912–1936), German essayist

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Frank Winkler P. Frank Winkler, Jr. 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, Vermon ...

, American astronomer * Gerhard Winkler (disambiguation), multiple people *

Gernot M. R. Winkler Gernot Maria Rudolph Winkler (October 17, 1922 – April 30, 2016) was responsible for the Time Service Department of the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) from 1966 to 1996. Winkler oversaw the introduction of caesium beam-based Coordinat ...

(1922-2016), time measurement specialist at

USNO United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense. Established in 1830 as the Depo ...

Gus Winkler Gus Winkler (March 28, 1901 – October 9, 1933) was an American gangster who headed a Prohibition-era criminal gang specializing in armed robbery and murder for hire with Fred "Killer" Burke. Winkler was a senior associate of Chicago Outfit ...

(1901-1933), American gangster and associate of

Al Capone Alphonse Gabriel Capone (; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the ...

Gustav Winkler Gustav Winkler (11 May 1867 in Liegnitz – 26 April 1954 in Berlin) was a German industrialist. He led the "Gustav Winkler Textilwerke" in Lauban and produced mostly textile hanckerchives. He cooperated with the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the r ...

(1867–1954), German industrialist *

Hans Winkler Hans Karl Albert 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. Winkler coined the term 'heteroploidy' in 191 ...

(1877–1945), German botanist *

Hans Günter Winkler Hans Günter Winkler (; 24 July 1926 – 9 July 2018) was a German show jumper. He is the only show jumper to have won five Olympic gold medals and a total of seven Olympic medals, and to compete and win medals in six different Olympic Games. In ...

(1926-2018), German show jumping rider *

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. ...

, East German luger *

Harald Winkler Harald Winkler (born 17 December 1962) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event with teammates Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Haidacher and Thomas Schroll at the 1992 Winte ...

(born 1962), Austrian bobsledder *

Harry Winkler (disambiguation) Harry Winkler may refer to: * Harry Winkler (handballer) (born 1945), American Olympic handballer * Harry Winkler (writer) Harry Winkler was an American sitcom writer who wrote for such shows as ''The George Gobel Show'', ''The Addams Family'', ...

, multiple people *

Heinrich August Winkler Heinrich August Winkler (born 19 December 1938 in Königsberg) is a German historian. With his mother he joined the Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50), westward flight in 1944, after which he grew up in southern Germany, attending a Gym ...

(born 1938), German historian *

Helmut Gustav Franz Winkler Helmut Gustav Franz Winkler (3 April 1915 – 10 November 1980) was a German geologist who worked on experimental approaches to petrology, making use of high-pressure and temperature to examine metamorphic processes. The mineral Helmutwinklerite is ...

(1915–1980), German geologist *

Henry Winkler Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE (born October 30, 1945), is an American actor, comedian, author, executive producer, and director. After rising to fame as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the American television series ''Happy Days'', Winkler has ...

(born 1945), American actor * Hermann Winkler (born 1963), German politician and Member of the European Parliament *

Hubert Winkler Hubert Winkler (13 February 1875 in Prenzlau – 10 June 1941 in Breslau) was a German botanist, who specialized in tropical flora research. From 1895 he studied theology and botany at the University of Breslau, where in 1901/02 he worked as a ...

(1875–1941), German botanist *

Irwin Winkler Irwin Winkler (born May 28, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of over 58 motion pictures, dating back to 1967's '' Double Trouble'', starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, '' They Shoot ...

(born 1931), American film producer and director *

Jim Winkler (American football) James "The Perch" Carl Winkler (July 21, 1927 – February 14, 2001) was a defensive lineman who played three seasons in the National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that co ...

(1927–2001), American footballer *

Jim Winkler James Winkler is the President and General Secretary of the National Council of Churches. As President and General Secretary, he speaks for the council, works with staff, board members, Christian and interfaith leaders and is responsible for provi ...

, leading member of the United Methodist Church *

Joe Winkler Joseph C. Winkler (March 9, 1922 – March 21, 2001) was an American football center who played one season with the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League. He played college football at Purdue University and attended Catholic Central High ...

(1922–2001), American football player * John E. Winkler (1941–2007), American author and photographer *

John J. Winkler John Jack Winkler (11 August 1943, in St. Louis – 26 April 1990, in Stanford, California) was an American philologist and Benedictine monk. Winkler studied classical studies at Saint Louis University from 1960 to 1963 and then went to England, ...

(1943-1990), American philologist and Benedictine monk *

Johannes Winkler Johannes Winkler (29 May 1897 – 27 December 1947) was a German rocket pioneer who co-founded with Max Valier of Opel RAK the first German rocket society "Verein für Raumschiffahrt" and launched, after Friedrich Wilhelm Sander's successful Ope ...

(1897–1947), German rocket pioneer *

Jonathan Reed Winkler Jonathan Reed Winkler (born 1975) is a historian and a professor of history at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He teaches and researches on U.S. foreign relations, U.S. military and naval history, international history, security studie ...

(born 1975), American historian * Josef Winkler (disambiguation), multiple people

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Kati Winkler Kati Winkler (born 16 January 1974) is a German former competitive ice dancer. With partner René Lohse, she is the 2004 World bronze medalist and a six-time German national champion. They competed at two Winter Olympics, in 1998 and 2002. ...

(born 1974), German figure skater * Konrad Winkler (skier) (born 1955), East German Nordic combined skier * Konrad Winkler (fencer) (1882–1962), Polish fencer *

Lajos Winkler Lajos Winkler (May 21, 1863 – April 14, 1939) was a Hungary, Hungarian analytical chemist. He is best known today for his discovery of the Winkler method for the measurement of oxygen dissolved in water. Life Relatively little is in prin ...

(1863–1939), Hungarian chemist, a.k.a. Ludwig Wilhelm Winkler, who developed Winkler titration * Malcolm Winkler, American biologist *

Margaret J. Winkler Margaret J. Winkler Mintz (April 22, 1895 – June 21, 1990) was a key figure 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 the fir ...

(1895–1990), American animator *

Margo Winkler Margo Winkler is an American actress, who often played minor roles as receptionists, clerks or judges. She is known for her minor roles in several of Martin Scorsese's films which her husband Irwin Winkler produced. She is best known for her roles ...

(born 1930s), American actress *

Mary Winkler Mary Carol Winkler (born on December 10, 1973) is an American woman who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small town of ...

(born 1973), American murderer *

Matthew Winkler (disambiguation) Matthew Winkler may refer to: * Matthew Winkler (journalist), an American journalist who is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News * Matthew Winkler (minister), a minister who was the victim in a high-profile murder case in 2006 ...

, multiple people *

Max Winkler Max Winkler (7 September 1875 – 12 October 1961) was a politician and senior political appointee in the local government of West Prussia, the national government of the German Empire, the Nazi government of the German Reich, and the post-war go ...

(1875–1961), German Reich Trustee and Reich Commissioner for German Cinema *

Mel Winkler Mel Winkler (October 23, 1941 – June 11, 2020) was an American actor, perhaps best known as the voice of Aku Aku in the ''Crash Bandicoot'' video games, from '' Crash Bandicoot: Warped'' to ''Crash Twinsanity''. Early life Winkler was born ...

(1941–2020), American actor * Mike Winkler, American politician * Myra Carroll Winkler (1880-1963), American educator and politician

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* Paul Winkler (director) (born 1939), German film director active in Australia *

Paul Winkler (publisher) Paul Winkler (7 July 1898 in Budapest – 23 September 1982 in Melun) was a French people, French writer, journalist and publisher of Jewish-Hungarian ancestry. Before being the head of Press Alliance, Winkler operated Europe's largest feature s ...

(1898–1982), Jewish-Hungarian journalist, writer, publisher active in France *

Paul Winkler (footballer) Paul Winkler (22 August 1913 – 1996) was a German international footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American ...

(1913–1996), German soccer player *

Peter Winkler Peter Mann Winkler is a research mathematician, author of more than 125 research papers in mathematics and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation.Information listed oPeter Winkler's homepagea ...

, American mathematician *

Ralf Winkler Ralf Winkler, alias A. R. Penck, who also used the pseudonyms ''Mike Hammer'', ''T. M.'', ''Mickey Spilane'', ''Theodor Marx'', "''a. Y.''" or just "''Y''" (5 October 1939 – 2 May 2017) was a German painter, printmaker, sculpto ...

(1939-2017), also known as A. R. Penck, German painter *

Randy Winkler Randy Winkler is a former offensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted in the twelfth round of the 1966 NFL Draft The 1966 National Football League draft was held at the Summit Hotel in New York City on Saturday, November 2 ...

(born 1943), American football player *

Ronny Winkler Ronny Winkler (born 29 July 1971) is a German former competitive figure skater. He won two senior internationals, bronze at the 1989 Karl Schäfer Memorial and at the 1990 Nations Cup, and three national titles, East German in 1990 and German ...

(born 1971), German figure skater * Rudy Winkler (born 1994), American Olympic track and field athlete * Scott Winkler, American Paralympic track and field athlete *

Sieglinde Winkler Sieglinde Winkler (born 30 March 1966) is a former Austrian alpine skier. Career During her career she has achieved 3 results among the top 3 in the World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities � ...

(born 1966), Austrian alpine skier *

Tiberius Cornelis Winkler Tiberius Cornelis Winkler (May 28, 1822 – April 4, 1897) was a Dutch anatomist, zoologist and natural historian, and the second curator of geology, paleontology and mineralogy at Teylers Museum in Haarlem. Besides translating the first editi ...

(1822–1897), Dutch anatomist and paleontologist

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* Vladimir Winkler (1884–1956), Czech and Russian sculptor *

Wilhelm Winkler Wilhelm Winkler (29 June 1884 – 3 September 1984) had successful careers as both an academic statistician (despite receiving no formal academic training in the field), and a program director in the Austrian government. Biography Early life Wil ...

(1884-1984), Bohemian and Austrian statistician *

Wolfgang Winkler Wolfgang Winkler (27 October 1940 – 11 May 2001) 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 lat, Gratianopolis , commune st ...

(1940-2001), German luger

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