Winchester (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Places 2 Persons 2.1 Fictional persons 3 Other

Winchester is a city in Hampshire. It may also refer to:

• • Winchester Cathedral, a cathedral located in Winchester
  • Winchester College, a public school in Winchester
  • University of Winchester, a university in Winchester
• Winchester (UK Parliament constituency)
• City of Winchester, the local government district containing Winchester

[edit] Places

In Canada:

• Winchester, Ontario

In New Zealand:

• Winchester, Canterbury

In the United States:

• Winchester, Arkansas
• Winchester, California
• Winchester (San Jose), a neighborhood of San Jose, California
  • Winchester Mystery House, built by Sarah Winchester
• Winchester, Connecticut
• Winchester, Georgia
• Winchester, Idaho
• Winchester, Illinois
• Winchester, Indiana
• Winchester, Iowa
• Winchester, Kansas
• Winchester, Kentucky
• Winchester, Maryland
• Winchester, Massachusetts
• Winchester, Mississippi
• Winchester, Missouri
• Winchester, Nevada
• Winchester, New Hampshire
• Winchester, New York
• Winchester, Ohio
• Winchester, Oklahoma
• Winchester, Oregon
• Winchester, Tennessee
• Winchester, Texas
• Winchester, Virginia
• Winchester, Washington
• Winchester, Vilas County, Wisconsin
• Winchester, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
• Winchester, Wyoming

[edit] Persons

• Caleb Thomas Winchester (1847-1920), professor for English literature at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
• Colin Winchester (1933-1989), Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, became the highest ranking officer to be murdered in Australian policing history
• John de Winchester (d. 1460), bishop of Moray
• Oliver Winchester (1810-1880), largest stockholder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
• Sarah Lockwood Winchester (1837-1922), wife of William Winchester
• Simon Winchester, author and journalist
• William Wirt Winchester (1838-1881), son of Oliver Winchester

[edit] Fictional persons

• Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, a character in the television series M*A*S*H
• John Winchester {Supernatural), Dean Winchester, and Sam Winchester, real people in the television series Supernatural

[edit] Other

• Winchester measure, an archaic set of weights and measures
• Winchester quart, an archaic measure of volume
• Winchester (bottle), a type of glass bottle used in laboratories for the storage of corrosive chemicals
• Winchester Repeating Arms Company, maker of the Winchester rifle
• Winchester rifle
• Winchester Little Cigars
• "Winchester disk", an alternative term for "hard disk" that fell out of use in 1990s, originating from the codename of the IBM 3340 hard disk.
• Winchester, the codename for an Athlon 64 processor
• "Winchester", military aviation slang to indicate an aircraft has expended all ordnance except for gun or cannon
• In the movie Shaun of The Dead the pub's name is the Winchester
• The Book of Winchester, also known as the Domesday Book, the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086 for William I