Famous People with Name Winter

Frederick Thomas Winter            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Frederick Thomas Winter: was a British National Hunt racing racehorse jockey and trainer. He was British jump racing Champion Jockey four times and British jump racing Champion Trainer eight times.He is the only person to have won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Gran

Zikmund Winter            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Zikmund Winter: was a Czech writer and historian. The author of many historical novels and essays, he maintained an interest in Bohemian life from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.

Miriam Winter            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Miriam Winter: Winter and Majta Laja (Leah) Winter, (maiden name Kohn). She is perhaps best known for her authorship of Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during and after World War II which explores not only her survival of the Holocaust as a 'hidden child' but also the psychological toll of keeping her identity hidden, even to herself, in post World War II Poland.She studied theater at the Leon Schiller Advanced State School for Theatre in Lódz before its division into separate theater and film schools. She has directed productions of ANTIGONE, ONDINE, and PEER GYNT.

Yves De Winter            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Yves De Winter: is a Belgian football goalkeeper, who plays for K.V.C. Westerlo in Belgian First Division. He participated in 2008 Summer Olympics for the Belgium national football team.

Leon De Winter            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Leon De Winter: is a Dutch writer and columnist.Leon de Winter was born on February 24, 1954 in Den Bosch, the capital of the Dutch province Noord-Brabant, in the south of The Netherlands.He grew up in an orthodox Jewish family and attended the gymnasium in Den Bosch. After his graduation he attended the academy of Bavaria Film Studios in Munich and the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. However, the Film Academy was much criticised by De Winter and he left the Film Academy in 1978 without a degree.