Winchester, Kentucky

Nettie George Speedy (1878–1957), journalist of Chicago Defender, founder of Chicago Women's Golf Club, the first woman to sit on the trustee board of Lane College, and the Pion...

Kentucky Wesleyan College was located in the city from 1890 to 1954.

Claude Sullivan, sports broadcaster Allen Tate (1899–1979), poet associated with the Agrarians, a group of Southern poets, and most noted for "Ode to the Confederate Dead" Helen...

== Economy == === Small business === Ale-8-One, a Kentucky-specific brand of soft drink, has been bottled in Winchester since 1926.

Preston Knowles, basketball player for the University of Louisville Homer Ledford (1927–2006), instrument maker and bluegrass musician Matt Long, TV's "Jack & Bobby", "Mad Men",...

Kentucky Route 1958 (Bypass Road) is an outer loop around the town.

The last L&N passenger train was an unnamed Cincinnati - Atlanta remnant of the former Cincinnati - Jacksonville Flamingo; it was discontinued on March 7, 1968.

Fryer, psychiatrist whose speech in 1972 as "Dr.

After Southeastern Christian College folded in 1979, the campus was preserved as a public park.

== Demographics == As of the census of 2000, there were 16,724 people, 6,907 households, and 4,620 families residing in the city.