Famous People with Name Winchell

Newton Horace Winchell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Newton Horace Winchell: was the extremely prolific Minnesota geologist responsible for the six-volume The Geology of Minnesota: Final Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, which is the work of Winchell and his assistants. A bibliography of his publications by Warren Upham in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (volume 26, pp. 27-46) contains almost 300 titles.Winchell attended public school in Connecticut and then taught school in Connecticut and Michigan. While teaching in Michigan he graduated from the University of Michigan and received a Master of Arts degree in 1867. He then did geological studies in Michigan, Ohio, and New Mexico.

Paul Winchell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Winchell: was an American ventriloquist and voice actor from New York City whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. During the mid-1960s, he had a childrens television show called Winchell-Mahoney Time (1965–1968). The show had a studio audience of children and featured his puppets as the main characters. On the show he played himself and several other zany characters. He was also an amateur inventor who was the first person to build and patent a mechanical, artificial heart, implantable in the chest cavity (US Patent #3097366).[1]

Vernon Hedges "Verne" Winchell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vernon Hedges "Verne" Winchell: was the founder of Winchell's Donuts. On October 8, 1948 he opened his first donut shop in Temple City, California and earned the nickname "The Donut King" while making a fortune with a chain of Winchell's-branded donut shops in the western United States