Winkle

Winkle may refer to:

Snails

 * Common periwinkle, an edible marine intertidal species found in Europe and North America
 * Any species within the family Littorinidae, the winkles, small intertidal sea snails
 * Some edible species of nerites which are also small aquatic snails, some marine, some freshwater
 * Sometimes applied to certain land species that have an operculum, such as Pomatias elegans, the land winkle
 * Tegula pfeifferi

Places

 * Winkle, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community
 * East Danville, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community also known as Winkle
 * Winkle Island (disambiguation), several places with the name

Fictional characters

 * Bertram Winkle, a butler in the television series Jessie
 * Leslie Winkle, a recurring character in the television series The Big Bang Theory
 * Nathaniel Winkle, in the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
 * Wilbert G. Winkle, protagonist of Mr. Winkle Goes to War, a 1944 war comedy film, played by Edward G. Robinson
 * protagonist of Winnie Winkle, an American comic strip (1920–1996), and ten film shorts; also her adopted brother Perry Winkle
 * Witch Winkle, in the British comics magazine Twinkle

Other uses

 * nickname of Eric Brown (pilot) (1919–2016), British Royal Navy officer and test pilot
 * Gregory Winkle (c. 1955–1971), victim of a serial killer
 * Mr. Winkle, a stray dog popularized by his photographer owner
 * Winkle squeeze, a play in the card game of contract bridge
 * James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, part of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
 * Development codename of the RAF's RX12874 radar detector
 * Winkle Brig, a type of sailing boat built between 1985 and 2002