Winnie the Pooh (Disney character) Winnie the Pooh (Disney character) Winnie the Pooh is a fictional teddy bear and the title character from the Disney media franchise based on A. A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1926) and "The House at Pooh Corner" (1928). Pooh is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002 and also has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Disney's Pooh was originally voiced by Sterling Holloway (1966–1977) in three featurettes that were later used as segments in "The Many Adventures of Winnie the
Winnie-the-Pooh "The House at Pooh Corner" and later in the films, it has crossed over into the real world: a World Championship Poohsticks race takes place in Oxfordshire each year. Ashdown Forest in England where the Pooh stories are set is a popular tourist attraction, and includes the wooden Pooh Bridge where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks. The Oxford University Winnie the Pooh Society was founded by undergraduates in 1982. In the People's Republic of China, images of Pooh were censored in mid-2017 from social media websites, when internet memes comparing Chinese president Xi Jinping to Pooh became popular. Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh,