Winsor
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People
- Winsor McCayWinsor McCayWinsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator.A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades...
, American cartoonist - Justin WinsorJustin WinsorJustin Winsor was a prominent American writer, librarian, and historian.-Background and education:Winsor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Nathaniel Winsor III and Ann Thomas Howland Winsor...
, American writer and historian - Kathleen WinsorKathleen WinsorKathleen Winsor was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber.-Biography:Winsor was born October 16, 1919 in Olivia, Minnesota but raised in Berkeley, California. At the age of 18, Winsor made a list of her goals for life. Among those was her hope to write a best-selling...
, romance novelist - Tom WinsorTom WinsorTom Winsor is a British lawyer and economic regulatory professional who was, from 5 July 1999 until 4 July 2004, the Rail Regulator and International Rail Regulator for Great Britain. He is a partner in international law firm White & Case LLP...
, British lawyer and economic regulator - Charles P. Winsor (1895-1951), engineer-turned-physiologist-turned-biostatistician
- Frederick Albert WinsorFrederick Albert WinsorFrederick Albert Winsor, originally Friedrich Albrecht Winzer was a German inventor, one of the pioneers of gas lighting in the UK and France....
, gaslight pioneer
Places
- Winsor, HampshireWinsor, HampshireWinsor is a village in the civil parish of Copythorne, in Hampshire, England. It is situated within the boundaries of the New Forest National Park. Surrounding villages are Copythorne to the west, Netley Marsh to the southeast, and Bartley to the south west....
, England - Winsor Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota, United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Other
- WinsorisingWinsorisingWinsorising or Winsorization is the transformation of statistics by limiting extreme values in the statistical data to reduce the effect of possibly spurious outliers. It is named after the engineer-turned-biostatistician Charles P. Winsor...
, as in a Winsorized meanWinsorized meanA Winsorized mean is a Winsorized statistical measure of central tendency, much like the mean and median, and even more similar to the truncated mean... - Winsor School, Boston, Mass.
- House of WindsorHouse of WindsorThe House of Windsor is the royal house of the Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on the 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of his family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor, due to the anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom...