Winnie or Winny may refer to:
People
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Winnie (name)
Winnie or Winny ( ) is a male and female given name of Welsh origin, a short form (hypocorism) of Edwina, Winona, Winifred or Winnifred, Winter, Gwendolyn, Guinevere (Welsh), Gwyneth (Welsh), and Wynne (Welsh). The name's meaning is: fair one ...
, various persons with the given name
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David Winnie
David Peter Winnie (born 26 October 1966) is a Scottish former football player and manager of Dumbarton. He is presently a solicitor based in central London.
A defender on the field, Winnie was part of St Mirren's 1987 Scottish Cup Final-wi ...
(born 1966), Scottish former association football player and manager
Entertainment
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard.
The first collection of stories about the character w ...
, a fictional teddy bear created by A. A. Milne
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''Winnie Mandela'' (film), a 2011 Canadian film about Winnie Mandela, originally titled ''Winnie''
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Winnie (2017 film), a South African biographical documentary film about Winnie Mandela
*the title character of the ''
Winnie the Witch'' children's picture book series by Valerie Thomas
* Gwendolyne "Winnie" Cooper, a character on the television show ''
The Wonder Years
''The Wonder Years'' is an American coming-of-age story, coming-of-age situation comedy, comedy/Drama (film and television), drama television series created by Neal Marlens and Carol L. Black, Carol Black. It ran on American Broadcasting Company ...
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Winnie, a character in the ''Hotel Transylvania'' movie series
Places in the United States
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Winnie, Texas
Winnie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chambers County, Texas, Chambers County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,162 at the 2020 census.
History
The town plat was filed in 1895 by the ''Gulf and Inter-state Railway'' officials. The ...
, a census-designated place
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Winnie, Virginia
Winnie is an unincorporated community in Nottoway County, Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the App ...
, an unincorporated community
Other uses
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Tropical Storm Winnie (disambiguation) The name Winnie has been used for 13 tropical cyclones worldwide: 1 in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean, 11 in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, and 1 in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean.
In the Eastern Pacific:
* Hurricane Winnie (1983) – an out of se ...
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Winnie (hard disk)
IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD) were invented by IBM and as such IBM's employees were responsible fo ...
, a colloquial term for hard disk used in the past
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Winnie (website)
Winnie is a marketplace for child care that helps parents find daycare and preschool. It contains data about child care providers including descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, and availability data. Parents also use Winnie ...
, an application that helps parents go places with their children
* Winnie, one of a pair of British
cross-Channel guns in the Second World War
The Dover Strait coastal guns were long-range coastal artillery batteries that were sited on both sides of the English Channel during the Second World War. The British built several gun positions along the coast of Kent, England while the German ...
near Dover, the other being named Pooh
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Winnipeg the Bear
Winnipeg (1914 – 12 May 1934), or Winnie, was the name given to a female American black bear, black bear that lived at London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. Rescued by cavalry veterinarian Harry Colebourn, Winnie is best-remembered for ...
, known as Winnie, a Canadian black bear at the London Zoo in the 1920s
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Winnie (feline)
In 2005, Winnie was the name given to a supposed big cat sighted in the Veluwe region of the Netherlands.
Sightings
At the beginning of June 2005, several sightings of a "puma" were reported to the police near Ede, Harskamp and Wekerom. Spoor w ...
, a supposed big cat sighted in the Netherlands in 2005
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Winny
Winny (also known as WinNY) is a Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program developed by Isamu Kaneko, a research assistant at the University of Tokyo in 2002. Like Freenet, a user must add an encrypted node list in order to connect to oth ...
, a Japanese peer-to-peer program
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Coty Award
The Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards (awarded 1943–1984) were created in 1942 by the cosmetics and perfume company Coty, Inc. to promote and celebrate American fashion, and encourage design during the Second World War. In 1985, the Coty Awa ...
for womenswear, popularly nicknamed Winnie
See also
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Wini (disambiguation)
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