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Winona County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, its population was 49,671. Its county seat is Winona. Winona County comprises the Winona, MN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Winona is a city in and the county seat of Winona County, Minnesota, United States. Located in bluff country on the Mississippi River, its most noticeable physical landmark is Sugar Loaf. The population was 25,948 at the 2020 census.
Albert Harold "Al" Quie was an American politician and farmer. Quie served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1958 to 1979 and as Governor of Minnesota from 1979 to 1983.
William Windom was an American politician from Minnesota. He served as U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1869, and as U.S. Senator from 1870 to January 1871, from March 1871 to March 1881, and from November 1881 to 1883. He also served two non-consecutive times as Secretary of the Treasury from March to November 1881, and from 1889 to 1891, under three Presidents. He was a Republican. He was the great-grandfather of actor William Windom, who was named for him.
Winona State University (WSU) is a public university in Winona, Minnesota. It was founded as First State Normal School of Minnesota in 1858 and is the oldest member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. It was the first normal school west of the Mississippi River.
Gene P. Pelowski, Jr. is Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represents District 26A, which includes Winona County in southeastern Minnesota. He was also a teacher at Winona Senior High School in Winona.
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota (SMUMN) is a private Catholic university with an undergraduate residential college in Winona, Minnesota; graduate and professional programs in Winona, the Twin Cities, and Rochester; and course delivery sites in Minnesota and Wisconsin as well as Jamaica. The institution was founded in 1912 and is associated with the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Brothers.
John Anton Blatnik was a United States Congressman from Minnesota. He was a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), which is affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Winona Senior High School is a publicly funded high school in Winona, in Winona County, which is located in southeastern Minnesota in the United States. The high school has a population of over 1200 students in grades 9–12. The school's mascot is Herky the Winhawk. The school is part of the Winona Area Public Schools.
Thomas Wilson was an American lawyer, Minnesota congressman and state legislator, associate justice and the second chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
The 2007–08 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey team represented the University of Minnesota in the 2007–08 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The team was coached by Don Lucia and played their home games at Mariucci Arena. This season was the second time during Lucia's tenure where all the players were from the state of Minnesota.
Thomas E. Hosier was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois from 1974 to 1978, Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1979 to 1989, and Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota from 1990 to 1995, compiling a career head coaching record of 88–124–4.
George Henry Speltz was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Winona in Minnesota (1963–1966) and as bishop of the Diocese of St. Cloud in Minnesota (1968–1987).
Thomas Tillberry is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 51B, which included portions of Anoka and Ramsey counties in the northern part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. A Democrat, he is also a counselor at Roseville Area High School in Roseville.
Jeremy R. Miller is an American politician representing District 26 in the Minnesota Senate, which comprises parts of Fillmore, Houston, and Winona Counties in the southeastern part of the state. He served as the Minnesota Senate Majority Leader from September 2021 to January 2023.
The Basilica of Saint Stanislaus Kostka is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona in Winona, Minnesota, United States, and a prominent fixture on the city's skyline. Within the diocese it is known as Saint Stan's. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as Church of St. Stanislaus–Catholic. It was designated as a Minor Basilica of the Roman Catholic Church on November 10, 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI.
Józef Franciszek Darzyn Ciemiński was a Polish-born Roman Catholic priest. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1881 and was ordained as a Priest in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1895. He was involved with numerous Polish Catholic parishes during his lifetime including the now closed troubled Parish of Saints Peter and Paul in Duluth, Minnesota, and the parish of Holy Cross in Minneapolis.
Hieronim Derdowski, Kashubian-Polish intellectual and activist, was born to Kashubian parents in the Pomeranian village of Wiele. By the time Derdowski emigrated to the United States in 1885, he had already studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, been repeatedly incarcerated by the German authorities, and edited a newspaper in the city of Torun. At the time, however, Derdowski was better known as a poet. Within two years of reaching the United States he became editor of the Winona, Minnesota Polish-language newspaper Wiarus. In this role he gained a reputation as a strong voice for the Polish-American community, also known as Polonia.
Kashubian Americans are Americans of Kashubian descent.
Tom Sawyer is an American former college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, from 1996 to 2021, compiling a record of 197–89. A native of Barron, Wisconsin, Sawyer played college football at Winona State, lettering for four years as a linebacker and punter. He retired after the 2021 season.
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