Colonel Van Perkins Winder (1809 – 1854) was an American sugar planter in the Antebellum South.

Van Perkins Winder was born on June 3, 1809, in Natchez, Mississippi.

[1][2] His father was Dr Thomas Jones Winder (1772–1818) and his mother, Harriet Handy (1786–1820).

[3] Winder acquired the Ducros Plantation in the Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana in 1845.

[8] He died of yellow fever on November 8, 1854, at his Ducros Plantation in Louisiana.