He was created a Knight of the Most Noble Order of Garter on 24 April 1953. The award was not made in any of the usual Honours Lists. Both he and his Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden had declined this honour in 1945, feeling it inappropriate following the landslide General Election defeat.
He was portrayed by Ian McNeice in the original production of the play "Never So Good", by Howard Brenton , which premiered at the National Theatre, London, UK in March 2008.
His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, allegedly died of syphilis.
His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, died on 24 January 1895, exactly 70 years to the day before Winston himself passed away.
His mother, Jennie Jerome, was born in Amity Street Brooklyn, New York City of a mother who was one-quarter Iroquois Indian. She was one of the few tattooed women in high society - a snake coiled around her left wrist.
His relationship with his wife was strained by the fact that she rose early every morning and he slept late. As a result they usually left notes and small letters to each other to maintain the intimacy.
In 1963, by Act of Congress, he was granted honorary U.S. citizenship, the first recipient since Lafayette. He was too infirm to travel to Washington, DC, to receive the honour in person, which was collected by his son and grandson.
Married at St. Margaret's, Westminster, England. Clementine was a decade younger than him.
May have had Alzheimer's disease in later life. Although the Churchill Museum maintains his reduced mental capacity was the result of multiple minor strokes since 1949, his symptoms were consistent with the illness.
Pictured on a 5¢ Canadian commemorative postage stamp issued in his honour 12 August 1965.
Pictured on a 5¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued in his honour, 13 May 1965.
Proposed marriage to Ethel Barrymore. She refused him, but they remained friends.
Risked his political career by trying to find a way for King Edward VIII to remain on the throne even after marrying Wallis Simpson. This strained relations so badly between him and later King George VI that George originally did not want Churchill to be Prime Minister, and would prefer instead to have appointed Lord Halifax. Churchill by that point had a majority of Parliament supporting him, though, and so he became Prime Minister. He earned the King's respect through his leadership during World War II.
Said to have refused to allow his successor to nominate him for a peerage after his final resignation as Prime Minister in 1955, ostensibly to allow his son to contest a seat in the House of Commons.
The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, "Fat Man", was christened by US Gen. Leslie Groves with Churchill in mind. The Hiroshima bomb, "Little Boy", was originally called "Thin Man", in honour of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The first American combat ship named after a foreigner, the guided-missile cruiser USS Winston S. Churchill, was launched on 17 April 1999.
Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" (1940 & 1949)
Was a member of The Tuna Club in southern California, the oldest fishing club in the United States. Its members at one time also included Theodore Roosevelt, George S. Patton, Charles Chaplin, and Bing Crosby.
When Churchill was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924, his robes of office were the same ones his father had used a generation earlier.
When traveling abroad during World War II, he would travel under the alias "Col. Walden" for security reasons.