Winifred Eveleen Gérin OBE, née Bourne, (7 October 1901 – 28 June 1981) was an English biographer born in Hamburg.
Her parents met when her father was a manager for the chemical company Nobel Industries in Hamburg and her mother was working there as a governess.
Her first husband, Eugène Jules Telesphore Gérin (1896–1945) was a Belgian cellist whom she first heard playing at a concert in Cannes.
Winifred spoke fluent French and German and, during the Second World War she worked for the political intelligence department of the British Foreign Office.
They married in 1955 and lived together at Haworth, he was the co-author, with Canon W T Dixon, of "A Man of Sorrow: The Life, Letters, and Times of the Rev.