Winfried
Winfried is a German male given name ; Name day is June 5th .
meaning
Winfried comes from Old High German and can be derived from wini (friend) and fried ( peace ).
variants
Well-known namesake
- Winfried, birth name of Bonifatius (≈673–754 / 55), early medieval missionary
- Winfried Albiez (1938–1984), German organ builder
- Winfried Aymans (* 1936), German Roman Catholic priest and canon lawyer
- Winfried Bönig (* 1959), German organist and university professor
- Winfried Dahlke (* 1969), German organist and regional church music director of the Evangelical Reformed Church
- Winfried Eisenblätter (* 1934), German Baptist clergyman
- Winfried Freudenberg (1956–1989), last fatality on the Berlin Wall
- Winfried Freund (1938–2011), German specialist in German
- Winfried Glatzeder (* 1945), German actor
- Winfried Hacker (* 1934), German psychologist
- Winfried Hermann (* 1952), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Winfried Kretschmann (* 1948), German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) and Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
- Winfried Nachtwei (* 1946), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Winfried Nerdinger (* 1944), German architectural historian
- Winfried Neuhäuser (* 1947), German soccer player
- Winfried Platzgummer (* 1930), Austrian lawyer and university professor
- Winfried Schäfer (* 1950), German football coach
- Winfried Scharlau (1934–2004), German journalist and historian
- Winfried Schittges (* 1946), German politician (CDU)
- Winfried Wehle (* 1940), German Romanist
- Winfried Zylka (1946–2019), German local politician (CDU)