Famous People with Name Winston

Winston Raymond Peters            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Winston Raymond Peters: is a New Zealand politician and leader of New Zealand First, a political party he founded in 1993. Peters has had a turbulent political career since entering Parliament in 1978. He served as Minister of Maori Affairs in the Bolger National Party Governmen

Winston Rodney            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Winston Rodney: is a Grammy Award winning Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Like many famous Jamaican reggae artists, Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.

Winston Elliott Scott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Winston Elliott Scott: is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut.Scott entered Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School after graduation from Florida State University in December 1972. He completed flight training in fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft an

Winston Parks Tifet            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Winston Parks Tifet: is a Costa Rican football (soccer) striker who currently plays for FC Timisoara in Romania. He played in Europe before at Slovan Liberec, Lokomotiv Moscow and on loan at FC Saturn Ramenskoe.

Winston Alanzo Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Winston Alanzo Gordon: is a British judoka.He is also British Open Champion 2009 Winston also known as Winni G is the best -90 player Britain has had for many years and is hoping to compete in his third Olympic games in London 2012.

Henry M. Winston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry M. Winston: was an African American political leader and Marxist civil rights activist. Winston, committed to equal rights and communism, was an advocate of civil rights for African Americans decades before the idea of racial equality emerged as a mainstream current

Joseph Winston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Winston: was an American pioneer, planter and Revolutionary War hero from North Carolina, and the first cousin of statesman and Virginia governor Patrick Henry.[2] Winston moved to the Stokes County, North Carolina area in 1766. During the American Revolutionary W

Francis Donnell Winston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Francis Donnell Winston: was a North Carolina politician and judge who served as Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina from 1905 to 1909. In 1884, Winston was the Republican nominee for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction. In 1887, he represented Bertie and Northa

Norma Ann Winstone            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Norma Ann Winstone: a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations.Winstone began singing in bands around Dagenham in the early 1960s, before joining Michael Garrick's band in 1968. Her first recording came the following year, with Joe Harriott. She recorded one album under her own name in 1972. [1Winstone has worked with most of her peers in British jazz including Garrick, Mike Westbrook and her former husband, the pianist John Taylor. With Taylor and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler she has performed and recorded three albums for ECM as a member of the trio Azimuth between 1977 and 1980. In addition she made an album with the American pianist Jimmy Rowles (Well Kept Secret, 1993).

Howard Winstone            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Howard Winstone: was a Welsh world champion boxer, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. As an amateur, Winstone won the Amateur Boxing Association bantamweight title in 1958, and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff.