Windsor
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Windsor may refer to:
  • Windsor (automobile)
    Windsor (automobile)
    The Windsor was an automobile produced in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, from 1929 to 1930 by the Windsor Corporation.- History :The Windsor Corporation was a subsidiary of the Moon Motor Car company and shared all the same company officers as the parent company as well as the same manufacturing facility...

    , defunct American automobile maker
  • Windsor (typeface)
    Windsor (typeface)
    Windsor is an old style serif display typeface created in 1905 by Elisha Pechey for the Stephenson Blake type foundry. Capitals M and W are widely splayed, P and R have very large upper bowls. The Lowercase a, h, m and n of the Windsor font have angled right hand stems, e has an angled cross-stroke...

    , serif typeface used in the credits of Woody Allen films
  • Windsor cap, soft men's cap
  • Windsor chair
    Windsor chair
    A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are dowelled, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to standard chairs, where the back legs and the uprights of the back are continuous. The seats of Windsor chairs were often carved into a shallow dish...

    , type of chair with a solid wood seat and turned legs
  • Windsor knot
    Windsor knot
    The Windsor knot, also referred to as a Full Windsor or as a Double Windsor to distinguish it from the half-Windsor, is a method of tying a necktie around one's neck and collar. The Windsor knot, compared to other methods, produces a wide symmetrical triangular knot. The knot is often thought to...

    , type of knot used to tie a necktie
  • Windsor Report
    Windsor Report
    In 2003, the Lambeth Commission on Communion was appointed by the Anglican Communion to study problems stemming from the consecration of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay, noncelibate priest to be ordained as an Anglican bishop, in the Episcopal Church in the United States and the blessing of...

    , report on challenges to unity in the Anglican Communion issued in 2004
  • Windsor University School of Medicine
    Windsor University School of Medicine
    Windsor University School of Medicine is a private medical school located in Cayon, Saint Kitts, in the Caribbean. Windsor confers upon its graduates the Doctor of Medicine degree. The university also has clinical education campuses in Carbondale, Illinois, Houghton Lake, Michigan, and Sidney, Ohio...

    , Saint Kitts
  • University of Windsor
    University of Windsor
    The University of Windsor is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students...

    , Canada
  • Windsor core, a version of Athlon 64 CPU
  • Windsor inversion of control container for .NET, part of the Castle Project
    Castle Project
    The Castle Project is an open source application framework for the .NET platform.- History :The project was founded by Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira , who was a member of the Apache Avalon and the Apache Excalibur projects...


Australia

  • Windsor, New South Wales
    Windsor, New South Wales
    Windsor is a town in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Windsor is located in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury. It sits on the Hawkesbury River, on the north-western outskirts of the Sydney metropolitan area. At the 2006 census, Windsor had a population of...

  • Windsor, Queensland
    Windsor, Queensland
    Windsor is an inner northern suburb of Brisbane, located about 3.5 km from the CBD. It is largely residential, featuring many old Queenslanders, although there is also considerable retail commercial activity, primarily concentrated along Lutwyche and Newmarket Roads.-History:Land was first...

    , a suburb of Brisbane
  • Windsor, Victoria
    Windsor, Victoria
    Windsor is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington. At the 2006 Census, Windsor had a population of 6394....

    , a suburb of Melbourne

United Kingdom

  • Windsor, Berkshire
    Windsor, Berkshire
    Windsor is an affluent suburban town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is widely known as the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British Royal Family....

    , on the western outskirts of London
    • Windsor Castle
      Windsor Castle
      Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...

      , located here
    • Windsor (UK Parliament constituency)
      Windsor (UK Parliament constituency)
      Windsor is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In its modern form, it elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.-Boundaries:...

      , the constituency centred around this town
    • Old Windsor
      Old Windsor
      Old Windsor is a large village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the English county of Berkshire.-Location:...

      , a village near Windsor
    • Windsor Free Festival
      Windsor Free Festival
      The Windsor Free Festival was a British Free Festival held in Windsor Great Park from 1972 to 1974. Organised by some London commune dwellers, notably Ubi Dwyer and Sid Rawle, it was in many ways the forerunner of the Stonehenge Free Festival, particularly in the brutality of its final suppression...

      , event held in nearby Windsor Great Park
      Windsor Great Park
      Windsor Great Park is a large deer park of , to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England. The park was, for many centuries, the private hunting ground of Windsor Castle and dates primarily from the mid-13th century...

  • Windsor, Belfast
  • Windsor, Cornwall
    Windsor, Cornwall
    Windsor is a hamlet in Cornwall, England. It is located half-a-mile east of Lansallos village between Polruan and Polperro....

  • Windsor, Lincolnshire
    Windsor, Lincolnshire
    Windsor is a hamlet and suburb of the town of Crowle in North Lincolnshire, England....


United States

  • Windsor, California
    Windsor, California
    Windsor is an incorporated town in Sonoma County, California, United States. The population was 26,801 as of the 2010 census.-Geography:Windsor is located on U.S. Route 101 in the Russian River valley, about southeast of Healdsburg, California....

  • Windsor, Colorado
    Windsor, Colorado
    The Town of Windsor is a Home Rule Municipality in Larimer and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the town was 18,644. Windsor is located in the region known as Northern Colorado. Windsor is situated north of the Colorado State Capitol in...

  • Windsor, Connecticut
    Windsor, Connecticut
    Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford. The population was estimated at 28,778 in 2005....

  • Windsor, Florida
    Windsor, Florida
    Windsor is an unincorporated community in Alachua County, Florida, United States.-Geography:Windsor is located at ....

  • Windsor, Mercer County, Illinois
    Windsor, Mercer County, Illinois
    Windsor, also known as New Windsor, is a village in Rivoli Township, Mercer County, Illinois, United States. The population was 720 at the 2000 census. The official name is the Village of Windsor, but New Windsor is also used by the village such as the New Windsor Fire Department...

  • Windsor, Shelby County, Illinois
    Windsor, Shelby County, Illinois
    Windsor is a city in Shelby County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,125 at the 2000 census, and 1,029 at a 2009 estimate.-Geography:Windsor is located at ....

  • Windsor, Kentucky
    Windsor, Kentucky
    Windsor is an unincorporated rural hamlet with a post office in extreme southern Casey County, Kentucky, United States. There were originally two community centers in the area, one at the present day intersection of Routes 910 and 80, and another about two miles west of there, near the...

  • Windsor, Maine
    Windsor, Maine
    Windsor is a town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,204 at the 2000 census. The town was formerly known as Malta, and gave its name to the "Malta War", a minor rebellion against the Massachusetts state government in Boston over settlement and land ownership rights in...

  • Windsor, Massachusetts
    Windsor, Massachusetts
    Windsor is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 875 at the 2000 census.-History:...

  • Windsor, Missouri
    Windsor, Missouri
    Windsor is a city in Henry and Pettis Counties, Missouri. The population was 3,087 at the 2000 census. The United States Postal Service ZIP code is 65360....

  • Windsor, New Hampshire
    Windsor, New Hampshire
    Windsor is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 224 at the 2010 census. It is the location of the Wediko Children's Services Summer Program and of , a summer adventure and travel camp founded in 1961.- History :...

  • Windsor, New Jersey
    Windsor, New Jersey
    Windsor is a small historic community and unincorporated area located within Robbinsville Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08561...

  • Windsor (town), New York
    Windsor (town), New York
    Windsor is a town in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 6,421 at the 2000 census.The Town of Windsor is on the south border of the county and is east of Binghamton. The town also includes a village named Windsor, located on the Susquehanna River...

  • Windsor (village), New York
    Windsor (village), New York
    Windsor is a village in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 901 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Binghamton Metropolitan Statistical Area....

  • Windsor, North Carolina
    Windsor, North Carolina
    Windsor is a town in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,283 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Bertie County...

  • Windsor, Pennsylvania
    Windsor, Pennsylvania
    Windsor is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,319 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Windsor is located at ....

  • Windsor Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation), multiple places
  • Windsor, South Carolina
    Windsor, South Carolina
    Windsor is a town in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 127 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan area.-Geography:Windsor is located at ....

  • Windsor, Vermont
    Windsor, Vermont
    Windsor is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,756 at the 2000 census.-History:One of the New Hampshire grants, Windsor was chartered as a town on July 6, 1761 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth. It was first settled in August 1764 by Captain Steele Smith and...

  • Windsor County, Vermont
  • Windsor, Virginia
    Windsor, Virginia
    Windsor is an incorporated town in Isle of Wight County in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia in the United States. It is located near the crossroads of U.S. Route 460 and U.S. Route 258. The population was 916 at the 2000 census...

  • Windsor Heights, West Virginia
    Windsor Heights, West Virginia
    Windsor Heights is a village in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 431 at the 2000 census...

  • Windsor, Wisconsin (disambiguation), multiple places

Surname

  • House of Windsor
    House of Windsor
    The 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...

    , the house or dynasty of the present British Royal Family
  • Lady Amelia Windsor, 26th in line of succession to the British throne
  • Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor
    Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor
    Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor was an English nobleman. He inherited the manor of Stanwell in Middlesex. In 1542, during a visit by King Henry VIII, he was obliged to surrender the manor to the crown. In return he was offered the lands of Tardebigge and the seat of Hewell Grange in modern...

    , English nobleman
  • Barbara Windsor
    Barbara Windsor
    Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE , better known by her stage name Barbara Windsor, is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders....

    , British actress
  • Bobby Windsor
    Bobby Windsor
    Robert William Windsor , known as Bobby and nicknamed "The Duke", is a former rugby union player who gained 28 rugby union caps for Wales as a hooker between 1973 and 1979...

    , Welsh rugby union player
  • Claire Windsor
    Claire Windsor
    Claire Windsor was a notable American film actress of the silent screen era.-Early life:Windsor was born Clara Viola Cronk in 1892 to George Edwin and Rosella R. Fearing Cronk in Marvin, Phillips County, Kansas of Scandinavian heritage. Her parents later moved to Cawker City, Kansas when she was...

    , American actress
  • Frank Windsor
    Frank Windsor
    Frank Windsor is an English actor, mainly on television.He attended Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. He began his career on radio and made an appearance in a 1953 film of Henry V...

    , British television actor
  • Lord Frederick Windsor
    Lord Frederick Windsor
    The Lord Frederick Windsor , popularly known as Lord Freddie, is a British financial analyst, and the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent...

    , member of the British royal family
    • Sophie Winkleman
      Sophie Winkleman
      Sophie Lara Winkleman is an English actress who has worked extensively in television, film and stage. On 14 February 2009, she became engaged to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince Michael and Princess Michael of Kent. They married in Hampton Court on 12 September 2009...

       (Lady Frederick Windsor) wife of Lord Freddie
  • Lady Gabriella Windsor
    Lady Gabriella Windsor
    The Lady Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia Windsor , known both professionally and personally as Ella Windsor, is an English freelance feature writer, and the only daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent .Her paternal great grandparents were King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of...

    , reporter, member of the British royal family
  • Gerard Windsor
    Gerard Windsor
    Gerard Charles Windsor is an Australian author and literary critic. He was dux of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in both 1961 and 1962, where, like Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. He trained as a Jesuit from the age of 18 to 24. He studied Arts at the Australian National...

    , Australian author
  • Gloria Windsor, American model
  • Jason Windsor
    Jason Windsor
    Jason David Windsor is a right-handed former major-league pitcher. He was called up July 16, 2006 to make his major-league debut against the Baltimore Orioles.-High school career:...

    , American baseball player
  • Keri Windsor
    Keri Windsor
    Keri Windsor is an American pornographic actress. She has also used the pseudonym Lacey Ogden.Windsor was born in Superior, Wisconsin and moved to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia when she was four...

    , American pornographic actress
  • Lady Louise Windsor
    Lady Louise Windsor
    The Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. She is the youngest granddaughter and second-youngest grandchild of Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh...

    , granddaughter to Queen Elizabeth II
  • Marie Windsor
    Marie Windsor
    Marie Windsor . Born as Emily Marie Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Windsor was an actress known as "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many film noirs and B-movies like Cat-Women of the Moon...

    , American actress
  • Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor
    Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor
    The Lady Marina Charlotte Windsor is the elder daughter of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews. She was born at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge and named for her great-grandmother, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent...

    , member of the British royal family
  • Lord Nicholas Windsor
    Lord Nicholas Windsor
    The Lord Nicholas Windsor is the youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, a great-grandson of King George V of the United Kingdom, and a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II....

    , member of the British royal family, and his son Albert
  • Peter Windsor
    Peter Windsor
    Peter David Windsor is the former Sporting Director of the US F1 Team and a Formula One journalist reporter. He was brought up in Australia, but now has residences in London and Sydney....

    , British journalist and reporter
  • Richard Windsor
    Richard Windsor
    Richard Windsor served the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Corps of Discovery as a hunter, scout, and woodsman.Windsor was recruited at Kaskaskia in 1803, joining the party as a Private at Camp Dubois, January 1, 1804. Windsor was a great hunter and woodsmen and he was very beneficial to the...

    , American explorer
  • Lady Rose Windsor
    Lady Rose Windsor
    The Lady Rose Gilman is a member of the extended British Royal Family. She is the younger daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and is in the line of succession to the British Throne.-Early life:Lady Rose was born at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, and at birth was 12th in line...

    , member of the British royal family
  • Roger Windsor
    Roger Windsor
    Roger Windsor was chief executive of the NUM between 1983 and 1989, including during the 1984 Miner's Strike. He later moved to France....

    , British labor union leader and former chief executive of the National Union of Mineworkers
  • Shawn Windsor
    Shawn Windsor
    Shawn Windsor is an American man convicted of killing his estranged wife, Betty Jean Windsor, and son, Corey Windsor, in Louisville, Kentucky in 2003. Windsor appeared on the television show America's Most Wanted twice before viewers provided police with tips that led to his July, 2004 capture in...

    , American man convicted of killing his wife
  • Tony Windsor
    Tony Windsor
    Antony Harold Curties "Tony" Windsor , an Australian politician, is an independent member of the House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Division of New England, New South Wales...

    , Australian independent politician
  • Walter Windsor
    Walter Windsor
    Walter Windsor was a British Labour Party politician. A native of Bethnal Green in the East End of London, he held a seat in the House of Commons from 1923 to 1929, and from 1935 until his death.- Bethnal Green :...

    , British Labour Party politician

Title

  • The Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
    Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
    Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay...

  • Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, wife of the Duke
  • The title Duke of Windsor
    Duke of Windsor
    The title Duke of Windsor was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1937 for Prince Edward, the former King Edward VIII, following his abdication in December 1936. The dukedom takes its name from the town where Windsor Castle, a residence of English monarchs since the Norman Conquest, is...

  • Baron Windsor
    Baron Windsor
    There have been several titles created in the name of Windsor.The first was that of Baron Windsor, in the Peerage of England, created by writ of summons in 1529 for Sir Andrew Windsor of Stanwell...


Structures

  • Windsor Castle
    Windsor Castle
    Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...

    , one of the homes of the monarch of Britain
  • Windsor House
    Windsor House
    Windsor House is a high-rise office building in Bedford Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The building was the tallest storeyed building on the island of Ireland before being surpassed by Obel Tower and stands at 80 metres tall, with 23 floors.Being the former tallest building on the Island of...

    , a skyscraper in Northern Ireland
  • Windsor Park
    Windsor Park
    Windsor Park is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the home ground of Linfield F.C. and the Northern Ireland national football team. It is also where the Irish Cup and Irish League Cup finals are played.-History:...

    , a football stadium which is home to Linfield F.C. and the Northern Ireland football team
  • Windsor Tower
    Windsor Tower
    The Windsor Tower was built in 1979 in the financial center of Madrid, Spain. This office building was 106 m high and had 32 floors of which 29 were above ground level and 3 below, thus ranking it as the eighth tallest building in Madrid...

    , a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain, which was destroyed in a fire in 2005
  • Windsor railway station (disambiguation), several places
  • Windsor Hotel (disambiguation)
    Windsor Hotel (disambiguation)
    Windsor Hotel may refer to:in Australia*Hotel Windsor , Australiain Canada*Windsor Hotel , Canada*Windsor Arms Hotel, Toronto, Canadain Japan*The Windsor Hotel Toya Resort & Spa, Hokkaidō, Japanin the United States...

    , several places

Transport

  • USS Windsor
    USS Windsor
    Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Windsor.* The first Windsor was an attack transport during World War II.* The second Windsor was an during World War II....

    , two ships by this name serving during WWII
  • Windsor (sloop), a ship wrecked off the coast of Australia in 1816, a Canadian submarine
  • Windsor class attack transport
    Windsor class attack transport
    The Windsor-class attack transport was a class of US Navy attack transport. Ships of the class saw service in World War II.Like all attack transports, the purpose of the Windsors was to transport troops and their equipment to foreign shores in order to execute amphibious invasions using an array of...

    , a class of US Navy ships used to transport troops and their equipment

Other uses

  • Brown Windsor soup
    Brown Windsor soup
    Brown Windsor soup is a hearty British soup that was popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.The soup generally contains lamb or beef steak, parsnips, carrots, leeks, bouquet garni and Madeira wine...

  • Ford Windsor engine
    Ford Windsor engine
    The Windsor is a 90-degree small-block V8 engine from Ford Motor Company. It was introduced in 1962, replacing the previous Ford Y-block engine. Though not all of the engines in this family were produced at the Windsor, Ontario engine plant , the name stuck...

    , V8 engine produced by Ford
  • Red Windsor cheese
    Red Windsor cheese
    Red Windsor is a pale cream, English cheddar cheese, made using pasteurized cow's milk marbled with a wine, often a Bordeaux wine or a blend of port wine and brandy....

    , type of English cheddar cheese
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life...

    , comedy by William Shakespeare
  • Windsor Gorilla, a character from My Gym Partner's a Monkey
    My Gym Partner's a Monkey
    My Gym Partner's a Monkey is an American animated television series created by Timothy and Julie McNally Cahill and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It premiered on December 26, 2005 and ended in November 27, 2008 following a marathon of its final regular-run episodes...


See also

  • Winsor (disambiguation)
  • Windsor Historic District (disambiguation)
  • Windsor Hotel
    Windsor Hotel
    Windsor Hotel may refer to:in Australia*Hotel Windsor , Australiain Canada*Windsor Hotel , Canada*Windsor Arms Hotel, Toronto, Canadain Japan*The Windsor Hotel Toya Resort & Spa, Hokkaidō, Japanin the United States...

  • All pages beginning with Windsor
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