Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (December 4, 1933 – April 15, 2025) was an American disc jockey, radio personality, game show host and television producer. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was known for his outgoing and jovial demeanor and his booming voice, who was also well-known for hosting the game shows: Gambit from 1972 to 1976 (and again from 1980 to 1981), Tic-Tac-Dough from 1978 to 1985, High Rollers from 1987 to 1988, and Debt from 1996 to 1998. He also presented Wink's Vault, on his YouTube Channel, from 2014 until his death in 2025.

Winston Conrad Martindale was born on December 4, 1933, in Jackson, Tennessee. His mother, Frances Mae (née Mitchell; 1901-1986), was a housewife, and his father, James ("Auzie") Martindale (1901-1969), was a lumber inspector. He was the fourth of five children: James Kenneth Martindale (1925-2017), Edward Leo Martindale (1927-2003), Frances Geraldine King (1930-2025), and David Lynn Martindale (1943-1990).

Martindale grew up in humble circumstances in a deeply religious household. When speaking of his childhood, Martindale said that "There were five of us in our small house, and my three brothers, one sister, and I lived with our parents in a two-bedroom, one-bath house with no shower. All of our water had to be heated. We poured water into a tub to take a bath. My parents bought our groceries on credit at Woody's Grocery Store. We used to go to church every Sunday morning and evening and on Wednesday nights we went to Bible study. When school was out in the summer, we attended Vacation Bible School."

For a child his age, Martindale had a distinctive voice, although his mother was the opposite of that. His mother had wanted him to become a minister. She believed he had the perfect voice for it and he was also a frequent churchgoer. Martindale said that a person could only become a minister if he heard a calling, and would later admit to his minister that he wasn't called for the ministry. Martindale then said: "When I was a boy growing up in Tennessee, my mother, God bless her, always wanted me to be a preacher. She'd say, 'Son, with your voice, I think God intended you to do work in the ministry.' It took me years to convince mother that you don't just become a preacher. You have to be called to the ministry. She finally accepted that, though it took years. So when I got the preacher job on 'B&B' I thought, 'Mom would be so proud.'" Martindale got his nickname "Wink" after he shortened it from Winston to Winkie after his childhood friend had trouble pronouncing his first name (Martindale would ultimately shorten it again to "Wink" later in life).

Martindale started his career as a disc jockey, when he was 17 at WPLI in Jackson, earning $25 a week. After moving to WTJS, he was hired away for double the salary by Jackson's only other station, WDXI. Next, he hosted mornings at WHBQ in Memphis while a college student at Memphis State University, before graduating with a bachelor of science degree in 1957. While at Memphis State, Martindale was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.

On the evening of July 10, 1954, Martindale was showing the WHBQ studio to some friends when he realized that his colleague on the 9 p.m. to midnight shift, Dewey Phillips, was getting a large number of reactions from listeners after airing a new song. The song was Elvis Presley's first record, "That's All Right". The song was recorded at Sam Phillips' recording studio on the evening of July 5, 1954. Phillips, who had brought the record on July 6, was in the WHBQ studio on the first airing night and had Presley's telephone number. DJ Dewey Phillips wanted to interview Elvis during his program, so Martindale endeavored to contact Presley, but Gladys Presley, Elvis's mother, answered the phone and said Elvis was so nervous that he had gone to a movie theater. Gladys and her husband Vernon brought Elvis to WHBQ and Dewey interviewed Elvis without his knowing that he was on the air (Martindale reported that Elvis later admitted that he would have been unable to talk otherwise).^{[non-primary source needed]}

Martindale's rendition of the spoken-word song "Deck of Cards" went to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold over a million copies in 1959. In Canada it reached No. 3. It also peaked at No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1963, one of four visits to that chart. It was followed by "Black Land Farmer". In 1959, he became morning man at KHJ in Los Angeles, California, moving a year later to the morning show at KRLA and finally to KFWB in 1962. He also had lengthy stays at KGIL (AM) from 1968 to 1971, KKGO-FM/KJQI, and Gene Autry's KMPC (now KSPN-AM) from 1971 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1987, the short-lived Wink and Bill Show on KABC during 1989, and KJQI from 1993 to 1994. In 1967, Martindale acted in a short futuristic documentary film about home life in the year 1999 produced by the Philco-Ford Corporation which predicted, among other things, Internet commerce.

Martindale's first break into television was at WHBQ-TV in Memphis, as the host of Mars Patrol, a science-fiction themed children's television series. At his tenure with WHBQ, he became the host of the teenage TV show Dance Party (1955–1959), where his friend Elvis Presley made an appearance on June 16, 1956. Following Presley's death in 1977, Martindale aired a nationwide tribute radio special in his honor.